Until 1986 the ship was used to transport solid radioactive waste from Atomflot to the west side of Novaya Zemlya for dumping into the Barents Sea.
As of 1995, the ship had 14.5 metric tons of low- and medium-level waste stored aboard.
[1] In 2014, the recycling of the "Volodarsky" depot ship was completed.
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