Icebreakers

The reason why the production of Icebreakers runs rather smoothly compared to some warships: they were always build in yards around St. Petersburg (Leningrad), most of the suppliers (for all the small and large machines and systems that turn a pile of metal into a ship) are also located there. They continued working. A lot of the stuff for warships were made in some currently Nazi-occupied regions in the south-west of Russia ( ).

The industrial supply chains were severely disrupted by the breakup of the USSR.   A lot of people think that such facts are little details
and whine about how Russia is failing.   If economic development was so trivial there would be no 3rd world countries.   Russia has managed
to make titanic advances since 1999 when Putin came in and prevented consolidation of a comprador oligarchy loyal to the NATzO west.

By contrast, Ukraine with all of its Soviet legacy, which was massive, flushed it all down the toilet and nobody is whinging how Ukraine
is a total comprador failure.   Selling off its black soil and women.   If Russia succeeds in regime change in Ukraine, it will actually benefit
Ukrainians, even the ones that hate Russia, greatly.   But given how they keep trying to crawl up NATzO's ass, they will likely get another
comprador regime down the line which will keep selling them down the river.

Hole wrote:The reason why the production of Icebreakers runs rather smoothly compared to some warships: they were always build in yards around St. Petersburg (Leningrad), most of the suppliers (for all the small and large machines and systems that turn a pile of metal into a ship) are also located there. They continued working. A lot of the stuff for warships were made in some currently Nazi-occupied regions in the south-west of Russia ( ).

But the giant Lider is being built in the new Zvezda shipyard complex. We'll see how they go about building these giants. Zvezda is very good at handling the new LNG carriers, so they will probably cope with the new icebreaker. Even the USSR did not build such large ships. Unless we take the unfinished aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk

Arrow wrote:

Hole wrote:The reason why the production of Icebreakers runs rather smoothly compared to some warships: they were always build in yards around St. Petersburg (Leningrad), most of the suppliers (for all the small and large machines and systems that turn a pile of metal into a ship) are also located there. They continued working. A lot of the stuff for warships were made in some currently Nazi-occupied regions in the south-west of Russia ( ).

But the giant Lider is being built in the new Zvezda shipyard complex. We'll see how they go about building these giants. Zvezda is very good at handling the new LNG carriers, so they will probably cope with the new icebreaker. Even the USSR did not build such large ships. Unless we take the unfinished aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk

The Russians plan to have 3 huge project 10510 icebreakers by 2033.
If the Russians a little late and it's until 2035 or 2036, it won't be a big deal, because by 2030 the Russians could have 7 "small" 22220 nuclear icebreakers.
I don't believe that Zvezda will have problems with the "Rossiya" ship because it is like any other ship, you need to cut a section of steel and weld it with another section of steel and then put everything together and weld it into one unit.
The Russians have perfected the construction of Project 22220 nuclear icebreakers and all that is needed for Project 10510 is everything double; the mass of the ship and the power of the nuclear reactors.

Baltic and Zvezda shipyards...
The Baltic shipyard is building the fourth and fifth icebreaker of project 22220. The fourth icebreaker "Yakutia" is under construction from May 26, 2020, and the fifth "Chukotka" from December 16, 2020. This means that both ships will be launched in the next year and a half. The Russians are planning two more icebreakers of this project, namely the 6th and 7th. After that, the Baltic Shipyard could be completely free for the construction of military ships.
It is my expectation that military shipbuilding will be launched in the Baltic Shipyard by 2027/28 at the latest. And Zvezda is supposed to build nuclear icebreakers of project 22220 until 2033, and it is Zvezda that could be the one to build aircraft carriers - if Russia decides to build them.

Arrow wrote:But the giant Lider is being built in the new Zvezda shipyard complex. We'll see how they go about building these giants. Zvezda is very good at handling the new LNG carriers, so they will probably cope with the new icebreaker. Even the USSR did not build such large ships. Unless we take the unfinished aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk

The supply chain is there. They just need to send the stuff to the Far East. With warships there are suppliers that were/are outside the current borders or changed their production lines to civilian stuff and have to be coerced back to produce some military grade gear.

New news has just arrived....  

Project 22220 nuclear icebreaker Yakutia to be launched on November 18


Nuclear-powered icebreaker "Yakutia". Photo: Media deck

On November 18, 2022, the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg will launch the third serial nuclear-powered icebreaker Yakutia of project 22220.

The godmother of the nuclear-powered ship was Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Victoria Abramchenko. Among the guests of honor on the descent, the presence of representatives of the Government of the Russian Federation, the Government of St. Petersburg, the General Director of the State Corporation "Rosatom" A.E. Likhachev, the General Director of JSC "OSK" A.L. Rakhmanov is expected.

The third serial universal nuclear icebreaker "Yakutia" is the fourth ship of project 22220, built at the Baltic Shipyard by order of the State Corporation "Rosatom". The nuclear-powered ship was laid down on the slipway of the plant on May 26, 2020.

https://paluba.media/news/38218

Zvezda that could be the one to build aircraft carriers - if Russia decides to build them. LIKE2 wrote:

Or the new super shipyard they are planning in St. Petersburg will be another huge investment in the shipbuilding industry.

Arrow wrote:

Or the new super shipyard they are planning in St. Petersburg will be another huge investment in the shipbuilding industry.

Severnaya Werf; Two slipways 240 m long and 50 m wide will be built.

This would mean that Severnaya will be able to build ships of the displacement and size of Project 1144 cruisers or very large landing ships.
After all, the front section of a larger ship (with a total displacement of over 30,000 tons), for example an aircraft carrier, could be built in Severnaya Werf and the rear part of the ship in the Baltic shipyard.
However, the Baltic Shipyard has already built huge project 1144 cruisers and is currently building the second largest nuclear icebreakers - since Zvezda is building the largest nuclear icebreaker "Rossiya".
However, I rather believe that the Russians will give the job to Zvezda or Sevmash shipyard for aircraft carriers. Sevmash will have a lot of free space when the construction of strategic submarines of project 955A stops.

November 16, 11:23 am
updated November 16, 12:29

The newest nuclear icebreaker "Ural" of project 22220 will be handed over to "Atomflot"

The signing of the acceptance certificate will take place on November 29

MURMANSK, 16 November. /TASS/. The second serial nuclear-powered icebreaker of project 22220 "Ural", which is being built at the "Baltiysky Zavod" by order of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Atomflot", will be at the disposal of the enterprise at the end of November. This was announced on Wednesday by the Acting Director General of Atomflot, Leonid Irlitsa, during the strategic session "Implementation of NSR infrastructure projects under sanctions pressure," which is taking place in Murmansk.

"On the 22nd of [November], the Baltic Shipyard will launch the Yakutia, and at the same time there will be preparations for the launch of the Ural icebreaker, and at the end of the month we expect it to enter the ranks of our enterprise," - said Irlitsa.

As follows from the data of his presentation, the signing of the acceptance certificate of the Ural icebreaker by Atomflot is scheduled for November 29.

Konstantin Stasyuk, deputy director of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) Projects Implementation Department - Head of the NSR Infrastructure Development Department of the Rosatom State Corporation, added that the construction of two more serial icebreakers is currently underway: Yakutia, due date - 2024, Chukotka - 2026. At the same time, the localization of the construction of these icebreakers is 96%. "The executor of these orders - the Baltic Shipyard - has been under Western sanctions since 2014, all issues related to this have been worked out. Of course, the tightening of sanctions had an effect, there were disruptions in the supply of equipment [during the construction of the Ural]], foreign partners refused even those "Ural" has passed sea trials, and on November 23 it will go to Murmansk," he concluded.

The universal nuclear icebreaker "Ural" is the third vessel of project 22220. Its laying ceremony took place on July 25, 2016. The Ural was launched on May 26, 2019. The godmother of the icebreaker was the chairman of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina. In October, the press service of the Baltic Shipyard (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, USC) reported that the Ural had begun sea trials.

Project 22220 universal nuclear icebreakers are the largest and most powerful icebreakers in the world. Their main task is to provide year-round navigation in the Western region of the Arctic. The vessels of this project in the coming years should become the backbone of Russia's civilian icebreaking fleet.

On the development of the Northern Sea Route and the icebreaker fleet

The plan for the development of the NSR was approved until 2035. It is planned to allocate 1.8 trillion rubles from various sources for its implementation. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia owns and builds modern icebreakers for the further development of the NSR as a powerful transport artery of national and global importance with year-round navigation. The head of the Russian Ministry for the Development of the Far East, Alexei Chekunkov, said that the construction of six more icebreakers is necessary to ensure a cargo flow of 200 million tons by 2030 along the Northern Sea Route.

The Northern Sea Route is the shortest water route between the European part of Russia and the Far East. The length of the route from the Kara Gate to Providence Bay is about 5.6 thousand km. At the same time, it is completely located in the territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone of Russia, which is especially important in the face of external sanctions pressure, when the logistics supply chains of products are disrupted.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/16343301




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Today, a new icebreaker was laid down at VSSZ (Vyborg shipyard) - head. No. 510 project 21900M2 (14,000 tons). The name has not yet been announced.

BMPD
November 22nd, 10:59 pm
Commissioning of the nuclear icebreaker "Ural" and launching of the nuclear icebreaker "Yakutia"

On November 22, 2022, in St. Petersburg, JSC Baltiysky Zavod (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) held the ceremony of raising the State Flag on the third built universal nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 (LK-60Ya) Ural (building number 05708) and the launch of the fourth project 22220 Yakutia nuclear-powered icebreaker under construction (building number 05709). President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin took part in both ceremonies via videoconferencing.



Nuclear-powered icebreaker "Ural" (building number 05708) of project 22220 (LK-60Ya) put into operation at JSC "Baltiysky Zavod". St. Petersburg, 11/22/2022 (c) sudostroenie.info

The ceremonies at the Baltic Shipyard were attended by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktoria Abramchenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Georgy Poltavchenko, General Director of Rosatom State Corporation Alexei Likhachev, General Director Baltic Plant Aleksey Kadilov, Acting General Director of FSUE Atomflot Leonid Irlitsa.
During the ceremony, Denis Manturov said that before the end of the year, Rosatom should conclude a contract with the Baltic Shipyard for the construction of two more nuclear-powered icebreakers of project 22220.

From the side of bmpd, we point out that the Ural is the third built nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 (LK-60Ya). Its construction was carried out under a contract signed on May 29, 2014 by Baltiysky Zavod - Shipbuilding LLC with the state corporation Rosatom for the construction of two serial nuclear-powered icebreakers of project 22220 (LK-60Ya) for FSUE Atomflot with a total cost of 84.4 billion rubles. The first icebreaker under this contract (and the second in the series) Sibir (building number 05707) was laid down at the Baltic Shipyard on May 26, 2015, launched on September 22, 2017 and put into operation on December 24, 2021.

The laying of the next icebreaker under this contract "Ural" (building number 05708) was carried out at the Baltic Shipyard on July 25, 2016. The launch was made on May 25, 2019, and on October 14, 2022, the Ural entered factory sea trials.

Earlier, the Baltic Shipyard built the lead universal nuclear icebreaker Arktika (building number 05706) of project 22220 (LK-60Ya) under a contract worth 36.959 billion rubles with the state corporation Rosatom for FSUE Atomflot concluded on August 20, 2012. The lead icebreaker Arktika was laid down on November 5, 2013, launched on June 16, 2016, entered factory sea trials on December 12, 2019, and the acceptance certificate of the Arktika icebreaker was signed on October 21, 2020 in Murmansk.

The developer of project 22220 is PJSC Iceberg Central Design Bureau. Project 22220 icebreakers are equipped with a new type RITM-200 two-reactor nuclear power plant with a capacity of 60 MW on shafts developed by OKBM Afrikantov and are the largest and most powerful icebreakers in the world. The length of the icebreaker of this project is 173.3 meters, width - 34 meters, draft at the design waterline - 10.5 meters, minimum working draft - 8.55 meters. The displacement is 33.54 thousand tons.

According to the terms of the contracts, the construction of the lead icebreaker Arktika was to be completed by December 30, 2017, the icebreaker Sibir in December 2019, and the third icebreaker Ural in December 2020. However, later, as a result, the deadlines for the commissioning of the icebreakers Sibir and Ural were postponed, and in fact serial ships are delivered with a delay of two years.

In August 2019, JSC Baltiysky Zavod received a contract worth about 100 billion rubles for the construction of the fourth and fifth universal nuclear icebreakers of project 22220 (LK-60Ya). The commissioning of the icebreakers, which have been named Yakutia and Chukotka, is scheduled for 2024 and 2026.
The nuclear icebreaker Yakutia (building number 05709) under this contract was laid down at JSC Baltiysky Zavod on May 26, 2020, and is now launched, and the nuclear icebreaker Chukotka (building number 05712) was laid down there on December 16, 2020 .



Launching of the nuclear icebreaker Yakutia (building number 05709) of project 22220 (LK-60Ya) under construction at Baltiysky Zavod JSC. St. Petersburg, 11/22/2022 (c) paluba.media

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4615966.html

The nuclear icebreaker program is progressing at an impressive pace. Only two years had passed from the keel being laid to the launch of the last Yakutia. Another one is under construction, another two are to lay the keel. In addition, a huge leader is also under construction

http://rosatomflot.ru/press-centr/novosti-predpriyatiya/2022/12/29/11495-novyy-god-atomnye-ledokoly-rosatomflota-vstretyat-v-arktike/

12/29/22: Nuclear-powered icebreakers of Rosatomflot will celebrate the New Year in the Arctic

All nuclear-powered icebreakers of FSUE Atomflot: Arktika, Sibir, Ural, Yamal, 50 Years of Victory, Taimyr and Vaigach will celebrate New Year's Eve in the waters of the Northern Sea Route.

Now the main direction of work of nuclear-powered ships of Rosatomflot is the Ob-Yenisei region of the Kara Sea. There is a favorable ice conditions here. Nuclear-powered icebreakers provide escort for ships through the Kara Gate Strait, but already in the first week of the new year, the route will be laid through Cape Zhelaniya.

“In the New Year on the ship, all the crews try to create a homely atmosphere: a Christmas tree in the wardroom, a festive ship menu, an exchange of gifts,” says acting . Director General of FSUE Atomflot Leonid Irlitsa. “Traditionally, the captain will wish the crew a Happy New Year over the speakerphone.”

During the voyage, the crews of nuclear icebreakers work around the clock: one watch replaces another. Sometimes only congratulations from the shore become the most vivid reminders of the holiday, but sometimes the place where the New Year is celebrated is also fixed.

“Our crew welcomed the year 2017 in the Boris Vilkitsky Strait for an extra-late transit escort of a caravan of three vessels,” says Dmitry Lobusov, captain of the 50 Let Pobedy nuclear icebreaker. “On December 21, we started work from the Bering Strait, and completed on January 3, 2017 in the Gulf of Ob.”

In Murmansk, New Year's Eve will be met only by the crew of the nuclear container ship Sevmorput. The key tasks for seafarers on shore are to ensure general, nuclear and radiation safety. Murmansk residents, free from the shift, will go home, and non-resident crew members will be able to celebrate the New Year in the city.

The Russian government approved the construction of two more nuclear-powered icebreakers of project 22220

On December 29, 2022, the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin signed the Decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 4321-r and No. 4322-r on the implementation in 2023-2030 of budgetary investments at the expense of federal budget allocations in the construction of the lead multifunctional nuclear technology service vessel [Pr 22770] and two serial universal nuclear icebreakers of project 22220.

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Regarding the new class of nuclear service vessels:

According to Decree No. 4321-r , it is prescribed to carry out in 2023 - 2029 budgetary investments at the expense of budgetary appropriations of the federal budget in the construction of the lead multifunctional nuclear technology service vessel with a commissioning date of the vessel in 2029 (capacity to be commissioned - 9 .28 megawatts). The total cost of the vessel was determined at 24.798475 billion rubles, and the volume of budget investments in its construction in the specified period - at 12.3992375 billion rubles.

This refers to the construction of a multifunctional nuclear-technological service vessel (MSATO) of project 22770 , which is intended to replace the currently operated nuclear-technological service vessel "Imandra" of project 1948 (in service since 1980). The development of technical project 22770 was completed by Iceberg Central Design Bureau JSC in 2018 under a state contract concluded with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia worth 489.5 million rubles. In October 2022, FSUE Atomflot issued an additional contract to the Iceberg Central Design Bureau in the amount of RUB 249.998 million to carry out adjustments to technical project 22770 by May 31, 2023 in order to "exclude foreign-made equipment from the MSATO, the supply of which is currently in the Russian Federation terminated".

The management of FSUE "Atomflot" stated that, taking into account the plans for the construction of floating nuclear power plants, the construction of three MNATO project 22770 will be required by 2035.

Characteristics of MSATO project 22770:

Overall length: - 158.80 m;
Length according to design waterline: - 149.2 m;
Maximum width: - 26 m;
Board height amidships: - 10.5 m;
With full displacement of draft: - 7.5 m;
Full displacement of the vessel: - 22661 tons;
Travel speed: - 12 knots;
Hull ice reinforcement class: - Arc5.

MSATO project 22770 is designed to carry out the following main technological operations:

- unloading of spent nuclear fuel from the reactor units of serviced ships;
- loading of fresh nuclear fuel into the reactor units of the vessels being serviced;
- reception, storage and distribution of liquid radioactive waste generated during the operation of ship reactor installations, as well as in the process of refueling of nuclear fuel;
- exposure of spent fuel assemblies in order to reduce residual heat releases;
- loading of aged spent fuel assemblies into transport containers for transfer for processing;
- decontamination of removable equipment of ship reactor plants and refueling equipment.

Regarding the extra Pr 22220s, ie units 6 & 7:

In turn, according to Decree No. 4322-r , it is planned to carry out in 2023 - 2030 budget investments at the expense of federal budget allocations in the construction of the fifth and sixth serial (that is, the sixth and seventh in general) universal nuclear icebreakers of project 22220 (LK-60Ya) with a capacity of 60 megawatts each, with commissioning in 2028 and 2030.

Flot.com
February 6, 2023 at 9:50 am Subject: Industry

Atomflot ordered two more Arktika-class icebreakers

Baltiysky Zavod and FSUE "Atomflot" signed a contract for the construction of the fifth and sixth serial (sixth and seventh in a row) universal nuclear icebreakers of project 22220 of the "Arktika" type. This was reported in the press service of the United Shipbuilding Corporation.

"The signing of a contract for the construction and extension of a series of nuclear icebreakers of project 22220 will provide the plant with highly qualified full-fledged work until 2030," said Alexei Kadilov, general director of the Baltic Shipyard.


Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreakers at the berth of the Baltic Shipyard
Press service of the Baltic Shipyard

According to the terms of the contract, the fifth serial nuclear-powered vessel of project 22220 should be put into operation in December 2028, and the sixth - in December 2030. Metal cutting for the first vessel of this pair is scheduled for the third quarter of 2023.
Recall that the Baltic Shipyard put the lead icebreaker of Project 22220 Arktika into operation in October 2020. In January 2022, Atomflot received a second icebreaker, Sibir. The third vessel of this type, Ural, completed sea trials at the end of October and was handed over to the customer in November.

The fourth icebreaker of project 22220 "Yakutia" was launched in November 2022.
Another vessel of this type, the Chukotka, is at an earlier stage of production.
Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreakers are designed for independent escort of ships and year-round leading caravans in the Western region of the Arctic, in the shallow areas of the Yenisei and the Gulf of Ob, towing ships, as well as providing assistance and performing rescue operations in ice conditions and in clear water. Icebreakers can overcome up to 2.8 meters of solid fast ice. They will become the most powerful ships of this type in the world.

https://flot.com/2023/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B41/

Imagine that the complication level of these ships & construction price/process actually equals aircraft carriers.
And they are making them as damn hot dogs...

Looking forward to see the Leader class too, bit slicker/more modern overall design and about twice as large/powerful (70,000 tons, 660MW nuclear) than the Arktika class which currently are the most powerful icebreakers in the world (34,000 tons, 350MW nuclear).

But that's at the Zvezda shipyards in the Far East. Not sure how far they've come with the first vessel. She (currently named N/S Rossiya) was laid down in 2021, but it's a massive build so.

This thing is a monster.
By the way, the newly erected shipbuilding cluster at Kotlin Island is set to deal with atomic vessels from the beginning. Probably the floating NPPs, but they will have the competence to deal with other types. That will double the production cap.

According to some information, the nuclear icebreakers of project 10510 "Lider" will have a minimum displacement of 50,398 tons, the standard displacement is 68,600 tons, while the full displacement is slightly over 71,000 tons.
This is twice as much as the nuclear icebreakers of project 22220.
The same applies to the RITM-400 nuclear reactors, which have twice the power of RITM-200 on icebreakers of project 22220.
The plan is that the first icebreaker "Rossiya" of project 10510 will be handed over to "Atomflot" in December 2027.
Even if the deadline is slightly exceeded, I am convinced that "Rossiya" will be operational by the end of this decade.

Such giants were not built even by the USSR, and modern Russia is building them.

You can watch the construction of the icebreaker Leader at the two links below - these are live broadcasts from two video cameras installed on the Zvezda:
http://www.rosatomflot.ru/stream/stream.php?id=1
http://www.rosatomflot.ru/stream/stream.php?id=2

both of these links are posted in an article on the Rosatomflot website, so this is not secret data
http://www.rosatomflot.ru/flot/sverhmoshnyy-atomnyy-ledokol-rossiya-proekta-10510/

Probably linked to before, but it wont hurt to show the previous generation. Here is the old-school Yamal nuclear icebreaker:

And the new Arktika class (6 ships as detailed above) are way more powerful than that. Not to mention the upcoming "Leader".

Flot.com
February 9, 2023 at 9:20 am Subject: Industry

A tool has been created for processing the vessels of promising icebreaking reactors

Specialists of ZiO-Podolsk JSC (part of Atomenergomash) have created a unique cutting tool with vibration-damping elements. According to Korabel.ru with reference to the press service of Rosatom, special equipment is used in the process of machining the vessels of promising icebreaking reactors under the Leader project.

The tool is designed for unique high-speed methods of deep drilling of large holes in reactor vessel equipment. Based on the results of experimental studies and the implementation of technical solutions at the production site, two applications for inventions were submitted to FIPS.


Model of the nuclear icebreaker of the type "Leader"
Wikipedia

The ZiO-Podolsk enterprise, for the first time in Russia and the world practice of shipbuilding, implemented a set of unique patented technological solutions that made it possible to master the production of pressure vessel reactor equipment for shipbuilding from scratch: power plants "RITM-200" and "RITM-400". The introduction of these technologies has made it possible to reduce the manufacturing cycle of reactor equipment by up to 20%, the press service of Rosatom reported.

"Technical solutions have found practical application in the manufacture of reactor equipment with the RITM-200 power plant for the icebreakers of project 22220 Arktika, Ural, Sibir, Yakutia and Chukotka," said Deputy Technical Director - Director for JSC "ZiO-Podolsk" Victor Terekhov - We have done a great job in terms of developing rare technical competencies that can be extended to other branches of engineering.
In other words, we made a breakthrough in the industry of nuclear power engineering, including through the introduction of innovative solutions that have no analogues in the manufacture of critical equipment. Technical solutions are confirmed by a large number of RF patents for inventions. We are proud that the efforts invested in the development of this area were duly appreciated at a high federal level".

Recall that Project 22220 nuclear icebreakers are being built at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. In early February, Atomflot ordered the sixth and seventh vessels of this type.

Nuclear-powered icebreakers of project 10510 "Lider" (LK-120Ya) are universal two-draft vessels with a nuclear power plant with a capacity of 120 MW. Three such icebreakers are to be built at the Zvezda shipbuilding complex in Primorsky Krai. The lead ship Rossiya was laid down in July 2021.

https://flot.com/2023/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC1/