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Akademik Fedorov

RV Akademik Fedorov (Russian: Академик Фёдоров) is a Russian scientific diesel-electric research vessel, the flagship of the Russian polar research fleet. It was built in Rauma, Finland for the Soviet Union and completed on 8 September 1987. It started operations on 24 October 1987, in the USSR. The ship was named after a Soviet polar explorer, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Evgeny Fyodorov, who worked on the first Soviet crewed drifting ice station North Pole-1. Research vessel Akademik Fedorov participated in MOSAiC Expedition in 2019-2020 supporting and resupplying the main research icebreaker Polarstern, and also held a six-week course for 20 students for MOSAiC School 2019.

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• ▸Allegiant Stadium
• ▸Holy Family and Donors (Carpaccio)
• ▸Castle Bromwich

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