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Montevideo, November 24th 2024 - 22:58 UTC

Tag: Arktika Project

  • Tuesday, September 26th 2017 - 20:01 UTC

    Russia commissions first of three nuclear powered icebreakers for Arktika Project

    Sibir has a displacement of 33,500 tons and is 173.3 meters long with a beam of 34 meters, and has a crew of 75. It is powered by two nuclear reactors of 175 MW.

    The first serially-produced Sibir nuclear-powered icebreaker, designed to reinforce Russia’s leadership in the Arctic, was commissioned last week at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. It is one of the three vessels part of Project 22220 which are to become the world’s largest and most powerful nuclear icebreakers. The lead ship of the project, the Arktika, was commissioned last year.