Nuclear-powered icebreaker type LK-60 laid on the Baltic Shipyard

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On Tuesday, the stocks of "Baltic Shipyard - ship," the ceremony of laying the atomic icebreaker type LK-60, the general director of "ATOMFLOT" Vyacheslav Ruksha, noting that the new generation of icebreakers 22220 project will increase the time of shipping along the Northern Sea Route.
According to the CEO, this icebreaker, which is likely to be given the name "Arctic" - taking into account the merits of the first Soviet nuclear ship of that name, must enter the fleet in December 2017. Currently, a tender for the construction of two more similar icebreakers, the plan will become part of the fleet in the years 2018-2020, according to ITAR-TASS.
At the present time the nuclear icebreaker fleet is nuclear-powered icebreaker "Soviet Union" ( he is in reserve ) , a nuclear -powered icebreaker "Yamal" will work for the next 15 years , ice breakers for shallow water " Vaygach " and " Taimyr" will be in the fleet to 2018 and 2019 , respectively.
In the words of CEO Atomflota , new icebreakers designed to work in the area of the Yamal fields . This class of nuclear-powered icebreakers capable of providing a passage from the port of Sabetta ( Yamal ) vessels with deadweight up to 100 thousand tons. The design of the new icebreaker will allow it to function as the shallow water estuarine great rivers of Siberia , and in the deep waters of the Arctic Ocean.

This ship will be the first nuclear-powered icebreaker , built after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Earlier it was reported that Russia will not remain without powerful icebreakers , after the year 2021 will write off all Soviet-built ships more . In August, it was decided to allocate budgetary appropriations for the construction of two universal serial icebreakers in the years 2014-2020 . Construction of three new icebreakers is estimated at nearly 100 billion rubles.