Akademik Ioffe
Research vessel · built 1989
In short
Akademik Ioffe (Research vessel) has no AIS position on record with Voydar.
- Vessel type
- Research vessel
- Flag
- —
- Year built
- 1989
- Gross tonnage
- 6,450
- Size (length × beam)
- 117 m
- Registered owner
- —
Watch this ship
Akademik Ioffe has not been received for a while. Follow it and we will email you as soon as it is heard again, then when it reaches or leaves port.
Free forever. No card. A free account follows up to 5 ships and ports.

Last reported position
No AIS position on record for this vessel. Identity and particulars are below.
A year of history in the Terminal (Plus) · the full archive since June 1, 2026 (Pro)Free forever. No card. New accounts include 14 days of Pro.
Try the live demo, no sign-upIdentity & particulars
- Name
- Akademik Ioffe
- IMO numberWhat is an IMO number?
- 8507731
- MMSIWhat is an MMSI?
- —
- Call signWhat is a call sign?
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- Research vessel
- Gross tonnageGross tonnage vs deadweight
- 6,450
- Length overall
- 117 m
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1989
A tag next to a value names the register that supplied it (hover or tap it for the record and date). Values without a tag come from the ship's own AIS broadcasts or from Wikidata. Position and identity are derived live from AIS.
Ownership & management
Each line shows where the fact comes from. Links backed by an identifier point to the company page.
- Builder
- Source: Wikidata · reported · confidence 0.8 · retrieved Sep 22, 2026
About Akademik Ioffe
Akademik Ioffe is a research vessel, named after the Soviet physicist Abram Fedorovich Ioffe. Built in 1988, the vessel has a displacement of 6,600 tons, and a length of 364 ft (111 m). Akademik Ioffe and Akademik Sergey Vavilov were built as a joint project. Both ships feature a vertical shaft about two meters in diameter, which opens from the main deck into a special room, from which an acoustic receiver or a transmitter can be lowered to below the waterline by means of a winch. The vessels were used for experiments on the long-range propagation of sound in the ocean. The vessel belongs to the Institute of Oceanology. P. P. Shirshov, of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She was chartered by One Ocean Expeditions until 2019.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Akademik Ioffe now?
- Voydar has no displayable AIS position for Akademik Ioffe in this profile. A coverage gap does not establish whether the ship is transmitting or where it is now.
- What kind of ship is Akademik Ioffe?
- Akademik Ioffe is a research vessel, built in 1989 by Hollming. The vessel is 117 m long and has a gross tonnage of 6,450.
- What sanctions and inspection records does Voydar hold for Akademik Ioffe?
- Voydar has no matched sanctions record displayed for Akademik Ioffe from the OFAC SDN list, the UK Sanctions List, the Canadian autonomous sanctions list, the EU list of designated vessels, the New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register and the French national asset-freeze register. Coverage may be incomplete; this is not sanctions clearance. No matched inspection records are displayed for Akademik Ioffe. Missing records do not establish whether the ship has been detained.
Use this data
This page is also available as JSON, free, with the source and licence of every section. Sections whose sources do not permit redistribution are listed as withheld.
GET /api/v1/vessels/8507731Using this data in code?
Every account gets a personal API allowance: 2,500 credits a month free, 25,000 with Pro. Pro adds internal business use; API plans add building the data into your own products.