page_title: List of research vessels by country
section_title: Soviet Union/Russia
hierarchical_section_title: List of research vessels by country / Soviet Union/Russia
caption_attribution_description: Russian scientific research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh. Call Sign: UFJI Gross tonnage: 6259 Year of build: 1980 Flag: Russia Registered owner: SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE Ship manager: SHIRSHOV INSTITUT Baltic Sea, September 2006
context_page_description: Following is a list of research vessels by country
context_section_description: RV Aisberg-II (decommissioned)
  RV Akademik A. Karpinsky
  RV Akademik Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (decommissioned)
  RV Akademik Aleksandr Sidorenko (decommissioned)
  RV Akademik Boris Petrov
  RV Akademik Fersman
  RV Akademik Fyodorov
  RV Akademik Ioffe
  RV Akademik Korolyov (decommissioned)
  RV Akademik Kurchatov (decommissioned)
  RV Akademik Lazarev
  RV Akademik M.A.Lavrentyev
  RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh
  RV Akademik Nemchinov
  RV Akademik Nikolay Strakhov
  RV Akademik Oparin
  RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov
  RV Akademik Shatskiy
  RV Akademik Shokalskiy
  RV Akvanavt (decommissioned)
  RV Aleksei Chirikov (decommissioned)
  RV Alexey Maryshev
  RV Amur (decommissioned)
  RV Anatoliy Zhilinskiy
  RV Andrei Vilkitzky (decommissioned)
  RV Arktika (decommissioned)
  RV Artemida (decommissioned)
  RV Atlantida
  RV Atlantniro
  RV Atlas
  RV Atmosfera (decommissioned)
  RV Bar
  RV Belomor
  RV Boris Davidov (decommissioned)
  RV Briz (decommissioned)
  RV Buran (decommissioned)
  RV Dalniye Zelentsy
  RV Dmitriy Ovtsyn
  RV Dmitriy Mendeleev (decommissioned)
  RV Dmitry Peskov
  RV Eduard Tolly (decommissioned)
  RV Faddey Bellinsgausen (decommissioned)
  RV Fyodor Matisen (decommissioned)
  RV Fritiof Nansen
  RV Fyodor Litke (decommissioned)
  RV Gals (decommissioned)
  RV Gelendzhik
  RV Geo Arctic
  RV Geofizik
  RV Geolog Dmitriy Nalivkin
  RV Gidrobiolog
  RV Gidrolog (decommissioned)
  RV Gidrofizik (decommissioned)
  RV Gigrometr (decommissioned)
  RV Glubina (decommissioned)
  RV Grigoriy Mikheyev
  RV Groza (decommissioned)
  RV Impuls (decommissioned)
  RV Iskatel-5
  RV Ivan Kireyev
  RV Ivan Kruzenshtern
  RV Ivan Petrov
  RV Jakov Smirnitskiy
  RV Kapitan Dranitsyn
  RV Kol'skaja
  RV Kompas (decommissioned)
  RV Leonid Morozov (decommissioned)
  RV Lugovoe (decommissioned)
  RV Mangazeya (decommissioned)
  RV Metan (decommissioned)
  RV Mikhail Verbitskiy
  RV Mirazh
  RV Murmanskaja (decommissioned)
  RV Nikolay Yevgenov (decommissioned)
  RV Okean (decommissioned)
  RV Pamyat Merkuriya (decommissioned)
  RV Pavel Bashmakov (decommissioned)
  RV Pavel Gordienko
  RV Persey (operated between 1922 and 1941, the first Soviet research vessel)
  RV Pomor (decommissioned)
  RV Priboy
  RV Priliv (decommissioned)
  RV Professor Bogorov
  RV Professor Gagarinskiy
  RV Professor Kaganovskiy
  RV Professor Khromov
  RV Professor Kurentsov
  RV Professor Logachev
  RV Professor Molchanov (decommissioned)
  RV Professor Multanovskyi
  RV Professor Polshkov
  RV Professor Rjabinkin
  RV Professor Shtokman
  RV Professor Vladimir Kuztensov
  RV Professor Zubov (decommissioned)
  RV Ptotr Kottsov
  RV Rift
  RV Roumb (decommissioned)
  RV Semyon Dezhnev
  RV Sergey Kravkov
  RV Shelf (decommissioned)
  RV Smolensk (decommissioned)
  RV Taimyr
  RV Tantal (decommissioned)
  RV Tor
  RV Vadim Popov (decommissioned)
  RV Valentin Shashin (decommissioned)
  RV Valerian Uryvayev (decommissioned)
  RV Viktor Buynitskiy
  RV Vityaz (III) (retired)
  RV Vityaz (IV) (decommissioned)
  RV Vladimir Sukhoskiyv
  RV Vsevolod Timonov (decommissioned)
  RV Vulkanolog Вулканолог (судно) (decommissioned)
  RV Vyacheslav Frolov
  RV Yakov Smirnitskiy
  RV Yantar (decommissioned)
  RV Yaroslavets (decommissioned)
  RV Yuzhmorgeologiya
  RV Zapolyarjye
  RV Zenit (decommissioned)
caption: RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh in the Baltic Sea.
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