Service
Icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn's main activity is piloting cargo ships on the Northern Sea route. She has also carried out tourist voyages to Frants Joseph's Archipelago, Spitsbergen, New Land, and Chukotka, to Bering Strait and even to the North Pole. She has completed research cruises into the Barents Sea, the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean.
In 1996, she made the first around-the-world voyage. In the same year, the icebreaker participated in rescuing the German passenger ship MS Hanseatic, with 135 passengers aboard.
In 2000, the icebreaker made the Arctic around-the-world voyage on the route Hammerfest (Norway) – Keflavik (Iceland) – Stromfiord (Greenland) – Canadian Arctic regions – Alaska – Chukotka - Murmansk. She made research expeditions to the Laptev Sea in 2002, 2003, and 2004, to place and recover moorings in the NABOS project.
In summer of 2002, the Captain Dranitsyn took part in shooting an advertising film for the Ford Motor Company in the Spitsbergen Archipelago.
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