Few days after it crashed into a cargo ship, the 50 Let Pobedy continues to escort ships across the icy waters of the Kara ...

One of Moscow's nuclear icebreakers has sustained significant damage after colliding with a cargo ship in the Kara Sea.

MOSCOW, April 26. /TASS/. The construction of the Arktika universal nuclear-powered lead icebreaker will be completed in 2020, according to a government resolution posted on the government’s ...

The shipyard has seen recent expansion but has until now been unsuccessful in securing contracts for nuclear icebreakers. The contracts for all five Arktika-class icebreakers went to the Baltic ...

MOSCOW, October 3. /TASS/. The first nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika of project 22220 has reached the North Pole during her trials, the Baltic Shipyard said on Saturday. "At 18.00 on October 3 ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: A common misconception is that icebreakers ram pack ice to ... Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Arktika-class comes equipped with a bubbler system that ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Arktika-class comes equipped with a bubbler system that shoots jets of hot steam below the surface of the water. Despite ongoing global warming, the Arctic ...

Russia launched a new nuclear-powered icebreaker named Chukotka ... Three new-generation nuclear-powered vessels – the Arktika, Sibir, and Ural – have been floated out from the Baltic Shipyard ...

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 ...

Bloodied by the war in Ukraine and weighed down by a shipbuilding industry that never really recovered from its post-Cold War collapse, the Russian navy isn’t building many new warships. But the ships ...