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Russia to allocate almost 22 billion rubles to construct icebreakers

04 april 2024
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The Cabinet of Ministers will allocate about 22 billion rubles for the construction of icebreakers with the capacities of JSC Baltic Shipyard, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said.

According to him, the funds will be used to continue work on the construction of three universal nuclear icebreakers of the 22220 project.

The ships will be built at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. So far, the company is building three icebreakers of this project, namely Leningrad, Yakutia and Chukotka.

In early 2024, Russian president announced that the Baltic Shipyard would build another vessel of the 22220 project - the Stalingrad, riamo.ru reports.

Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished

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