The Baltic shipyard will start working on another universal nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 on January 27, the Day of lifting the blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg). The new vessel will be named Leningrad in honor of the hero city, Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said in her Telegram channel.
The icebreakers of the 22220 project are built by order of Rosatom and are the largest and most powerful in the world. The vessels will facilitate the opening of year-round navigation in the eastern sector of the Northern Sea Route.
Three nuclear icebreakers of the 22220 project have already been built and are in operation. They are named Arctic, Siberia and Ural.
Within the framework of the 22220 project, the nuclear icebreakers Yakutia (2024) and Chukotka (2026) are being prepared for commissioning. Another future vessel will be named Stalingrad.
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