Editing Sevmorput (section)

===General characteristics===

''Sevmorput'' is {{convert|260.30|m|ft}} [[length overall|long overall]] and {{convert|236.60|m|ft}} [[length between perpendiculars|between perpendiculars]]. The breadth and depth of her hull are {{convert|32.20|m|ft}} and {{convert|18.30|m|ft}}, respectively.<ref name="rs">{{csr|register=RS|id=840293|shipname=Sevmorput|accessdate=2011-11-26}}</ref> When loaded to the [[load line (vessel)|summer waterline]], the ship draws {{convert|11.80|m|ft}} of water. However, in ice-covered waters she operates with a slightly smaller draught of {{convert|10.65|m|ft}} to improve the icebreaking characteristics of her raked stem.<ref name="rosatom_specs" /> The [[gross tonnage]] of ''Sevmorput'' is 38,226 and [[net tonnage]] 11,468.<ref name="rs" /> The ship's [[deadweight tonnage]] is 33,980 tons at maximum draught and 26,480 tons while operating at reduced draught in ice. Her maximum displacement is 61,880 tons.<ref name="rosatom_specs" />

Although originally designed according to the [[USSR Register of Shipping]] rules of 1981 to the highest Soviet [[ice class]] available for merchant ships, ULA, ''Sevmorput'' is currently classified by the [[Russian Maritime Register of Shipping]] with a slightly lower ice class, UL.<ref name="rs" /> In addition to the national rules she was built according to the latest international regulations and conventions at the time, becoming the first ship built according to the ''Code of Safety for Nuclear Merchant Ships'' adopted by the [[International Maritime Organization]] in 1981.<ref name="rosatom_specs" /><ref name="imo">[http://www.imo.org/about/conventions/listofconventions/pages/international-convention-for-the-safety-of-life-at-sea-(solas),-1974.aspx International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607173502/http://www.imo.org/About/Conventions/listofconventions/pages/international-convention-for-the-safety-of-life-at-sea-(solas),-1974.aspx |date=7 June 2015 }}. International Maritime Organization. {{retrieved | accessdate=2011-11-26}}</ref><ref name="bellona_first">[http://www.bellona.org/english_import_area/international/russia/civilian_nuclear_vessels/icebreakers/30107 Nuclear icebreakers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110413075406/http://www.bellona.org/english_import_area/international/russia/civilian_nuclear_vessels/icebreakers/30107 |date=13 April 2011 }}. Bellona Foundation, 18 June 1997. {{retrieved | accessdate=2011-11-29}}</ref> Special attention was paid to the safety aspects of the vessel and, in addition to running aground or colliding with the reinforced bow of an icebreaker, the Soviet naval architects even took into account the possibility of a passenger aircraft crashing on ''Sevmorput''.<ref name="latimes1989" />