Arktika class icebreaker
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | Saint Petersburg Baltic plant |
| Operators: | Murmansk Shipping Company |
| Built: | 1975–2006 |
| Completed: | 6 |
| Active: | 4 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 23,000 t |
| Length: | 148 m (486 ft) to 159 m (522 ft) |
| Beam: | 30 m (98 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2×OK-900 reactors, 171MW each 52MW propulsive power |
| Speed: | 20.6 knots (38.2 km/h; 23.7 mph) |
| Endurance: | 7.5 months |
| Complement: | 138–200 |
The Arktika class is a Russian (former Soviet) class of nuclear powered icebreakers. They are owned by the federal government, but were operated by the Murmansk Shipping Company (MSCO) until 2008, when they were transferred to the fully government-owned operator Atomflot. Of the ten civilian nuclear powered vessels built by Russia (and the Soviet Union), six have been of this type. They are used for clearing shipping lanes north of Siberia as well as for scientific and recreational expeditions to the Arctic.
[edit] Vessels
| Ship Name | Launched | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| NS Arktika | 1975 | taken out of service, reactor removed in 2008 |
| NS Sibir | 1977 | taken out of service in the 1992 due to a problem in the vessel’s steam generation system |
| NS Rossiya | 1985 | |
| NS Sovjetskij Sojuz | 1990 | |
| NS Yamal | 1992 | |
| NS 50 Let Pobedy | 2007 | Built as NS Ural, completed in 2007. |
[edit] Ship Notes
The NS Arktika was the first surface ship to reach the North Pole on August 17, 1977.
[edit] References
- Nuclear Powered Icebreakers, Bellona Foundation
- Technical information, MSCO
- Russia scraps another nuclear-powered icebreaker, Barents Observer,
- The Yamal, a nuclear powered Icebreaker page, Cool Anatartica
