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Russian nuclear icebreakers

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A nuclear-powered icebreaker is an icebreaker with an onboard nuclear power plant that produces power for the vessel's propulsion system. Although more expensive to operate, nuclear-powered icebreakers provide a number of advantages over their diesel-powered counterparts, especially along the Northern Sea Route where diesel-powered icebreaker operations are challenging due to the heavy power demand associated with icebreaking, limited refueling infrastructure along the Siberian coast, and the endurance required.

— Wikipedia, Nuclear-powered icebreaker
Lenin launched
5 December 1957
Lenin in service
3 December 1959
Arktika at the North Pole
17 August 1977
Yakutiya in service
6 March 2025
In service
8 (late 2025)
Operator
Atomflot (Rosatom), Murmansk
Classes
Lenin, Arktika, Taymyr, Project 22220, Project 10510
Reactors
OK-150, OK-900, OK-900A, KLT-40M, RITM-200, RITM-400
Largest
Rossiya (Project 10510), 209 m, 69,700 t
Most powerful in service
Project 22220, 60 MW at the shafts
Thickest ice
2.8 m; 4 m planned
1957 lenin launched
1959 lenin in service
1977 arktika at the north pole
2025 yakutiya in service
Every class to scale · Length and beam of each class from above, against Sevmorput and the Titanic
From reactor to propeller · Reactor heat against power at the shafts, the ice each class breaks, and how long the fuel lasts
The fleet, ship by ship · Every ship from keel to retirement, 1959 to the ships due by 2030
  • Arktika, lead ship of Project 22220, in 2020
  • A Project 22220 ship ahead of one of the older red icebreakers
  • Lenin, the first nuclear-powered surface ship, now a museum in Murmansk
  • Looking down into Lenin's reactor compartment, as the museum shows it
  • The 1975 Arktika, the first surface ship to reach the North Pole, on a 2006 cruise
  • Yamal, 2015
  • 50 Let Pobedy at the North Pole on a tourist cruise
  • 50 Let Pobedy from a Mi-2 helicopter
  • Yamal and other icebreakers at Atomflot's base in Murmansk
  • Taymyr, March 2014: a shallow-draught class for the river mouths
  • Tankers crossing the Gulf of Ob behind icebreakers
  • Sevmorput, the nuclear-powered cargo ship, in Saint Petersburg, 2020
  • Arktika (Project 22220) being built at Baltic Shipyard
  • Arktika and Sibir fitting out at Baltic Shipyard
  • Ural at Baltic Shipyard, Saint Petersburg
  • The old icebreaker Krasin in front of Ural
  • Sibir (Project 22220) at sea
  • Sibir leading a ship through the ice
  • Chukotka at Baltic Shipyard
  • A model of Project 10510, Rossiya
  • The first Rossiya (1985) in a floating dock
  • A cabin on 50 Let Pobedy, which takes tourists to the pole