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The '''Icebreaker Magadan''' is a large modern [[Russia]]n [[icebreaker]].<ref name=Usgs2006>
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She was completed in 1982<ref name=FescoFleet>
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and is the smallest of [[Fesco Transport Group]]'s fleet of five icebreakers.  

==Specifications==
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|+ '''Magadan specifications'''<ref name=FescoFleetMagadan>
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! '''characteristics''' !! '''value'''
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| '''Length''' ||88.49 m
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| '''Beam''' || 20.00 m
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| '''Draft''' ||10.50 m
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| '''Speed''' || 16 knots
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| '''Tonnage''' ||
{|
| '''Deadweight''' || 1909.0 t
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| '''Register tonnage gross''' || 5342
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| '''Net''' || 1603
|}
|}

==Service==
*2006: chartered by a joint expedition to survey [[Walrus]] abundance.<ref name=Usgs2006/><ref name=Fesco20060403/>
*2003: participated in a training exercise with vessels of other nations.<ref name=Pravda20030825>
{{cite web| url=http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2003/08/25/49517.html| title=The joint Russian-Japanese-Korean exercises start in the Sea of Japan| publisher=[[Pravda]]| author=| date=August 25, 2003| accessdate=2008-02-19}}</ref>
*2000: ''Magadan'' towed a Russian warship to be broken up in India.<ref name=Newsbank20001108>{{cite news| url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F97DF6F3AE2B5D0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
| title=Russian shipping lines see icebreakers as "impossible luxury"| publisher=[[ITAR-TASS news agency]]| author=| date=November 8, 2000| accessdate=2008-02-19| quote=Magadan was towing a Russian warship to India to the breaker's yard.}}</ref>
*1999: ''Magadan'' led a rescue effort (March 6) to escort vessels carrying supplies to isolated [[Kamchatka]] settlements that were dangerousely short of fuel.<ref name=Tass19990306>{{cite news| url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=BBAB&d_place=BBAB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F99F770D2C84681&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
| title=Russian Far East: Ice-breaker to help supply Kamchatka District with fuel| publisher=[[ITAR-TASS news agency]]| date=March 6, 1999| accessdate=2008-02-10| quote=Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 6th March, ITAR-TASS correspondent Sergey Borovkov: The Magadan ice-breaker is the last hope of the inhabitants of Karaginskiy District in Koryak Autonomous Area. Only the ice-breaker is capable of making its way through the heavy ice and escort two ships, a tanker and a dry-cargo vessel, which are to deliver diesel fuel and coal for the District's freezing settlements at the port centre of Ossora. ITAR-TASS was told by the Koryak civil defence and...}}</ref>

==Sister ships==
*''[[Icebreaker Admiral Makarov]]
*''[[Icebreaker Sakhalin]]
*''[[Kapitan Khlebnikov]]
*''[[Icebreaker Krasin]]

==References==
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[[Category:Icebreakers|Magadan of Russia]]
[[Category:Icebreakers of the Soviet Union|Magadan]]