By this remodeling the coal hold was divided into a drying room and a coal room in order to store various kinds of freight and the vessel was named the Irtysh after the Irtysh River (the total length: 4,248 km), a tributary on the left bank of the Ob River in Western Siberia.
この改装により石炭艙は各種積荷の貯蔵のため乾燥室と石炭室に分割され、名前も西シベリアを流れるオビ川左岸の支流エルティシ川（全長4,248km）からイルティッシュ号と命名された。