''Akademik Sergey Vavilov'' () is a Russian (formerly

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

) research vessel, named after physicist Sergey Vavilov. She was completed on 12 February 1988, at the Hollming Yard in Rauma,

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

for the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

. ''Akademik Sergey Vavilov'' started operations as a research vessel of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Science ( Russian Academy of Science since 1991) in the USSR on 20 March 1989, and prior to 7 November 1999, completed five research cruises into

Norwegian Sea The Norwegian Sea (; ; ) is a marginal sea, grouped with either the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Norway between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea, adjoining the Barents Sea to the northeast. In the southwest, it is separate ...

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and

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. Since at least 1996, she has served as cruise ship specializing in polar cruises. She is managed by International Shipping Partners and her current port of registry is

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad,. known as Königsberg; ; . until 1946, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, an Enclave and exclave, exclave of Russia between Lithuania and Poland ( west of the bulk of Russia), located on the Prego ...

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. She has a sister ship, '' Akademik Ioffe'', completed at Hollming in 1989. Both ships were chartered by One Ocean Expeditions until 2019.

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* Research vessels of Russia Research vessels of the Soviet Union Ships built in Rauma, Finland Finland–Soviet Union relations Expedition cruising 1988 ships {{cruise-ship-stub