[2] The underwater contours of the vessel allowed it to navigate in ice: when compressed it was squeezed out onto the surface.

When docking the ship and hauling the anchor, Shitik needs the assistance of a vessel called osinovka boat.

[1] Initially, Shitiks were built on the coast of the White Sea, and the Northern Dvina, Sukhona, Vychegda, Vetluga, and Tikhvinka rivers.

[3] Later the building of such boats[clarification needed] also spread in Siberia and the Far East, since Shitiks plied the Pacific Ocean.

Such a boat does not transfer[clarification needed] a wave, and every movement of a passenger risks capsizing the vessel.

[5] Well known Shitiks: on the First Kamchatka expedition under the command of Vitus Bering, an auxiliary vessel "Fortuna" boat-shitik was used[1] (in other sources it was a two-masted Galiot[6])