The construction of the ship had two different phases. The initial works began in 2007 and were done by Jiangsu Hantong Heavy Industries near
Shanghai in
China. but these ownerships were not corroborated. In 2016 it was known that the owner of the ship was MRTS, a company linked to
Gazprom and completed in
Singapore in 2015. MRTS later sold the ship to
Gazprom Flot and Russian newspapers appear to confirm that Gazprom has sold the ship since. In December 2019, after the
United States threatened to sanction
Allseas, the pipe layer involved in the construction in the Nord Stream pipe-line up to this time would not finish its construction and
Akademik Cherskiy was taken into consideration to finish the job the pipe layers of Allseas have begun. In February 2020, starting in
Nachodka in far-east Russia, it began its journey over the
Cape of Good Hope to
Sassnitz, the
Baltic Sea where it arrived in June 2020. In Sassnitz, the vessel underwent an extensive
upgrade which would prepare the ship for the works at the Nord Stream II pipe-line. In December 2020, it was announced that the vessel has been deployed to take up the work to complete Nord Stream II where it joined another Russian pipe-layer
Fortuna in April. == References ==