The Akademik Tryoshnikov, a Russian diesel-electric research vessel, is the flagship of the Russian Polar Research Institute. It was built at the Admiralty shipyard in St. Petersburg. It has a complex diesel-electric propulsion plant, consisting of three Wärtsilä engines, two 6,300 kW and one 4,200 kW, which drive high-voltage Alconza generators.
Belonging to the 21900M project, built by Vyborg Shipyard for “Rosmorport” and delivered in 2016, it is the third in its series (Vladivostok, Murmansk and Novorossiysk). It represented the first non-nuclear icebreaker project over the last 30 years.
Chilean Navy polar vessel currently under construction at the Asmar Shipyard in Talcahuano. She has a total power of 14.5 MW in her diesel-electric propulsion plant, with main propulsion engines supplied by Alconza and directly coupled to the propeller.
