OVERVIEW: The KAPITAN SOROKIN class icebreaker is a diesel-powered icebreaker.

DETAILS:   The KAPITAN SOROKIN class icebreaker is a shallow-draft icebreaker built in Finland.

 

NOTES: Displacement: 14,900 tons full load
       Speed: 19 knts
       Range: 40,000 nm @ 15 knts
       Complement: 185
       In Commission: 1977 
       Completed: 4 	  

SOURCES: Norman Polmar, "Guide to the Soviet Navy, 3rd ed. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1983), 319 ; 
