414N is a river

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class, developed in

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in 1962. The class 414 is one of the classes of the SPN ship project. These tankers have capacity of 600

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s and are used for oil transportation on the superficial rivers of

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(basically

Lena River The Lena (russian: Ле́на, ; evn, Елюенэ, ''Eljune''; sah, Өлүөнэ, ''Ölüöne''; bua, Зүлхэ, ''Zülkhe''; mn, Зүлгэ, ''Zülge'') is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean ...

SPN-673

This

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belonged to the Kirenskaya repair-operational base in

Kirensk Kirensk ( rus, Киренск, p=ˈkʲirʲɪnsk) is a town and the administrative center of Kirensky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kirenga and Lena Rivers, north of Irkutsk, the administrative center of ...

and was equipped for oil transportation. The captain of the vessel at the moment of incident was Bulgakov Victor Vasilevich. On October 13, 2009, the tanker, carrying a cargo of 496 tons of

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, was close to Ichera settlement on the

when the steering refused to respond, causing the ship to run into a flooded barge. There were no injuries, after the cargo was swapped to the "Capitan Verkhoturov" tanker and sent to its destination, 18 people and 3 other vessels took part in refloating the ship. Initially it was believed the ship was not damaged, but after surveying the refloated ship it was found that the bottom of the ship and the empty

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s 11 and 12 were damaged. The ship was removed from the bank at 2:00 on October 16 and towed off for survey in Kirensk by steam-ship "Zcuya". As a result of the investigation into the circumstances of the incident it was found that a failure to report a danger by the steam-ship "Captain Ineshin" meant that the tanker hit the barge. The investigation determined three guilty parties: * The

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of tanker SPN-673 had withdrawn from management of the vessel and had not transferred command of a vessel to the senior assistant. * The

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SPN-673 did not promptly report the accident to the ship-owner and the emergency services. * The captain of the steam-ship "Captain Ineshin", had not given necessary warning about a dangerous area, and after the incident did not stop to provide assistance. All of them received fines, the money was spent by the Osetrovsky transport public

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SPN-705

This tanker belonged to the Yakut river shipping company and had been equipped to transport

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traversing

Indigirka The Indigirka ( rus, Индиги́рка, r=; sah, Индигиир, translit=Indigiir) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana to the west and the Kolyma to the east. It is long. The area of its basin is . History The ...

and

Moma River The Moma (russian: Мома; sah, Муома) is a river in Yakutia in Russia, a right tributary of the Indigirka. The length of the river is , the area of its drainage basin is . The extinct cinder cone volcanoes Balagan-Tas and Uraga-Tas are ...

to deliver fuel from Belaya Gora to

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. On June 28, 1996, at 11:00 there was an explosion on the ship, causing a large

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. At 12:00

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s and auxiliary vessels from port Belaya Gora arrived along with fire-engines on the coast although the fire was not fully extinguished till 17.30. The explosion created a large hole in the tanker which sank shortly after the fire was put out. The fire caused the death of ship mechanic Victor Firstov, and captain of the tanker Jury Grabkin was severely wounded. The other five crew members were uninjured.

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