The R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh (Russian: Академик Мстислав Келдыш) is a 6,240 ton Russian scientific research vessel. It is best known as the support vessel of the MIR submersibles. The ship has made over 50 voyages. The ship is owned and operated by the Moscow-based Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Science and is homeported in Kaliningrad. The ship is named after the Soviet mathematician Mstislav Keldysh. A research vessel is a ship primarily constructed to carry out scientific research at sea. ... A research vessel is a ship primarily constructed to carry out scientific research at sea. ... MIR submersible. ... A submersible is a type of underwater vessel with limited mobility, intended to remain in one place during use. ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ... Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... Government Russia District Subdivision Russia Northwestern Federal District Kaliningrad Oblast Mayor Yuri Savenko (2005) Geographical characteristics Area  - City 215. ... Soviet redirects here. ... Sergei Korolev (left), Igor Kurchatov (center) Mstislav Keldysh (right) 1956 Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (Мстислав Всеволодович Келдыш in Russian) (January 28 (N.S. February 10), 1911, Riga - 1978, Moscow) was a Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1946), President of the Soviet Academy of...

It has 17 laboratories and a library. It usually has 90 people onboard (45 crew members, 20 or more pilots, engineers and technicians, 10 to 12 scientists and about 12 passengers). It has a maximum speed of 12.5 knots although normal is 10.5. Its length is 122.2m, width is 17.8m. It was built in Rauma, Finland in 1981 by Hollming OY. It was first launched in 1981 in the USSR. Rauma, or Raumo in Swedish, is a town of ca. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Among recent voyages, the Keldysh has made expeditions to two famous wrecks, the British liner Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck. Filmmaker James Cameron led two of those expeditions: To Titanic in 2001, leaving Kaliningrad a month before the September 11 attacks (Ghosts of the Abyss) then to Bismarck in 2002 (Expedition: Bismarck). RMS Titanic was an Olympic class passenger liner that collided with an iceberg and sank in 1912. ... The German battleship Bismarck is one of the most famous warships of the Second World War. ... James Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a three-time Academy Award winning Canadian-American film director noted for his action/science fiction films, which are often extremely successful financially. ... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...

External links

• Deep Ocean Expeditions
• KBismarck.com - The Wreck of the Bismarck
• NOAA Ocean Explorer Keldysh
• Technical data