Tokyo, Japan; April 10, 2024;

built 1938 as Volochaevets, commissioned by the Soviets in 1936 from the Matsuo shipyard, on Nagasaki's Koyagi Island, as partial payment for Japan's construction of the South Manchuria Railway (also known as the Chinese Eastern Railway).
Two other ice-strengthened cargo ships were ordered at the same time, Bolshevik and Komsomolets. All three were built, but owing to the worsening state of Japan-Soviet relations by that time, the ships were never delivered. Volochaevets was launched from the now-renamed Kawaminami Shipyard in February 1938.
She was completed as an ice-breaking cargo freighter for the Tatsunan Kisen Co. and was renamed Chiryō Maru. Bolshevik and Komsomolets were renamed Minryo Maru (民領丸) and Tenryo Maru (地領丸).

L x B: 83.3 x 13.5 m;