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Akademik Mstislav Keldysh
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R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh |
| Career (Russia) |
 Russia |
| Namesake: |
Mstislav Keldysh |
| Ordered: |
Unknown |
| Builder: |
Hollming OY,
Rauma
 Finland |
| Laid down: |
Unknown |
| Launched: |
December 28 1980 |
| In service: |
March 15, 1981 |
| Homeport: |
Kaliningrad
Russia |
| Fate: |
Active |
| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
6,240 tons |
| Length: |
122.2 m |
| Beam: |
17.8 m |
| Speed: |
12.5 knots max, 10.5 cruise |
Boats and landing
craft carried: |
MIR DSVs |
| Complement: |
~90 |
The R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh (Russian: Академик Мстислав Келдыш) is a 6,240 ton Russian scientific research vessel. It is best known as the support vessel of the MIR submersibles. The vessel has made over 50 voyages, is owned by the Moscow-based Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Science and is homeported in Kaliningrad. Named after the Soviet mathematician Mstislav Keldysh, it usually has 90 people onboard (45 crew members, 20 or more pilots, engineers and technicians, 10 to 12 scientists and about 12 passengers). Among its special accommodations are 17 laboratories and a library.
The ship was built in Rauma, Finland by Hollming OY for the Soviet Academy of Sciences and completed on December 28, 1980. [1] It started operations on March 15, 1981 for the Soviet Union.[2] The MIR submersibles were added to her equipment in 1987.
Among recent voyages, the Keldysh has made expeditions to two famous wrecks, the British liner Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck. Filmmaker James Cameron led two of those expeditions: To Titanic in 2001, leaving Kaliningrad in August, (Ghosts of the Abyss) then to Bismarck in 2002 (Expedition: Bismarck). Three years later, Cameron used the Keldysh to film his latest movie Aliens of the Deep.[1]
References
- ^ "Information on RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh" (in Russian). Federal Target Program World Ocean.
- ^ "Information on RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh" (in Russian). Federal Target Program World Ocean.
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