Newsweek reached out to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for comment via email. The 50 Let Pobedy nuclear icebreaker is one of only two remaining vessels in the ...

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 ...

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

MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. The Arktika lead nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 (Rosatom’s Atomflot fleet) left for the first voyage in waters of the Northern Sea Route. The eastbound voyage ...

Shell bought Russian liquified natural gas shipments totalling 350,000 tonnes which required an escort from sanctioned ...

The 50 Let Pobedy nuclear icebreaker is one of only two remaining vessels in the first-generation Arktika-class still in service, according to the Maritime Executive. The damage sustained could ...

With a total displacement of 69.700 tons it will also be more than twice as heavy as Russia’s newest and currently largest icebreaker, Arktika. The vessel is designed to break channels as wide ...

Reported to have completed sea trials in mid-December, Russia’s latest nuclear icebreaker, the 209-metre Yakutiya, is being ...

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 ...

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 ...