The Taymyr was an icebreaking steamer of 1200 tons built for the Russian Imperial Navy at St. Petersburg in 1909. It was named after the Taymyr Peninsula.
Taymyr and her sister ship Vaygach were built for the purpose of thoroughly exploring the uncharted areas of the Northern Sea Route. This venture became known as the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition.
- Original Name: "Исследование Арктики и Антарктики"
- Artist: Y. Ryahovsky
- Country: USSR
- Year: 1965
- Subject: Transport
- Estimated cost: 4 kop. (at the rate of exchange 1965)
- Number of catalogue: 3267, 3268 (Postage stamps of Russia and USSR, Vol.5 Edited by V. Soloviev, 2011, ISBN 978-5-86656-235-0)