Vaygach (1989 icebreaker)
Vaygach () is a shallow-draught nuclear-powered icebreaker. She was built in 1989 for the Soviet Union by Wärtsilä Marine Helsinki Shipyard in Finland by order of the Murmansk Shipping Company and its KL-40 reactor was installed at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. Her sister ship is Taymyr. Career Vaygach is a shallow-draught nuclear-powered icebreaker of Project 10580 Taimyr. It is named after the early 20th century hydrographic icebreaker of the same name. Vaygach was built in Finland in 1989 and its KL-40 reactor was installed at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. Entered service in July 1990. Vaygach underwent work on its steam generator No. 3 in February of 2003 as a defect in steam generator was found. On 15 December 2011, two crew members died and a third one was seriously injured in a fire on board Vaygach while the icebreaker was escorting merchant ships from Dudinka to Murmansk. The fire, which started in one of the crew cabins presumably due to negligence and was extinguished by the crew by 03:58 am Moscow time, did not cause any damage to the ship's nuclear reactor. The two killed were 32-year-old machinist Pavel Bazhukov, and 55-year-old ship instrumentation and control