The MT ''Timofey Guzhenko'' ( rus, Тимофей Гуженко) is a Russian double acting

shuttle tanker A shuttle tanker is a ship designed for oil transport from an off-shore oil field as an alternative to constructing oil pipelines. It is equipped with off-loading equipment compatible with the oil field in question. This normally consists of a tau ...

operated by

Sovcomflot Sovcomflot (russian: ПАО «Совкомфлот», ПАО «Современный коммерческий флот», , Modern Commercial Fleet). Sovcomflot is Russia's largest shipping company, and one of the global leaders in the maritime ...

. An icebreaking oil tanker capable of operating independently in level ice, she carries oil from Varandey Oil Terminal, an ice-strengthened loading tower located from the shore. The ship is named after Timofey Guzhenko (1918–2008), the USSR Minister of Merchant Marine in 1970–1986 and one of the founders of the Sovcomflot Group. He was also the leader of the first expedition to reach the

North Pole The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's rotation, Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distingu ...

on board a surface ship, the

nuclear-powered icebreaker A nuclear-powered icebreaker is an icebreaker with an onboard nuclear power plant that produces power for the vessel's propulsion system. , Russia is the only country that builds and operates nuclear-powered icebreakers, having built a number of ...

''Arktika'', on 17 August 1977.Timofey Guzhenko (1918-2008)
. Sovcomflot.

Sister ships

*'' Vasily Dinkov'' (delivered 2007) *'' Kapitan Gotskiy'' (delivered 2008)

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