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&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Yermak_icebreaker.jpg) Yermak on the Baltic Sea before 1917
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| History | |
|---|---|
   Russian Empire/RSFSR/USSR | |
| Name | Yermak |
| Builder | N. I. Yankovsky, R. I. Runeberg, Armstrong Whitworth and others |
| Yard number | 684 |
| Laid down | 1897 |
| Launched | 17 October 1898 |
| Completed | 1899 |
| Acquired | 1899 |
| Out of service | 1963 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1964 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 8730 tons |
| Length | 97.5 m |
| Beam | 21.6 m |
| Draught | 7.3 m |
| Ice class | Icebreaker |
| Installed power | 9000 hp |
| Propulsion | 4 shaft, 8 VTE steam engines, 6 boilers |
| Speed | 12 knots |
| Crew | 102 |
Yermak[1] (Russian: Ермак, IPA: [Jɛrmak]) was a Russian and later Soviet icebreaker. It was the first polar icebreaker in the world, having a strengthened hull shaped to ride over and crush pack ice.