🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin took part in the keel-laying ceremony for the multipurpose nuclear-powered icebreaker Leningrad at the Baltic Shipyard in St Petersburg.
The ship will be built as part of the Development of the Northern Sea Route federal project.
🛳 The Russian icebreaker fleet includes 34 diesel and 7 nuclear-powered icebreakers, namely, the lead ship Arktika and the nuclear-powered icebreakers Sibir, Ural, Yamal, 50 Let Pobedy, Taymyr and Vaygach.
🎙President Vladimir Putin:
💬 Today, together we are taking another step towards strengthening the technological and industrial capacity of our country. The high-performance modern nuclear icebreaker Leningrad will become the fifth ship in its series. After it is completed, it will sail along the Northern Sea Route, participate in important programmes to develop and study the Arctic, and ensure the delivery of cargo, construction materials, fuel, and, in general, reliable and sustainable shipping in the difficult and hard-to-reach Arctic latitudes.
☝️ Russia has an unparalleled – I would like to emphasise – unparalleled icebreaker fleet, the largest in the world, which is an enormous competitive advantage for us that opens vast opportunities for developing logistics and industry, creating new jobs, carrying out the integrated development of Arctic urban and rural areas, implementing truly global projects, and pursuing cooperation with our international partners and friends, and everyone who is willing to work with Russia.
#russianfleet #icebreaker #leningrad
The ship will be built as part of the Development of the Northern Sea Route federal project.
🛳 The Russian icebreaker fleet includes 34 diesel and 7 nuclear-powered icebreakers, namely, the lead ship Arktika and the nuclear-powered icebreakers Sibir, Ural, Yamal, 50 Let Pobedy, Taymyr and Vaygach.
🎙President Vladimir Putin:
💬 Today, together we are taking another step towards strengthening the technological and industrial capacity of our country. The high-performance modern nuclear icebreaker Leningrad will become the fifth ship in its series. After it is completed, it will sail along the Northern Sea Route, participate in important programmes to develop and study the Arctic, and ensure the delivery of cargo, construction materials, fuel, and, in general, reliable and sustainable shipping in the difficult and hard-to-reach Arctic latitudes.
☝️ Russia has an unparalleled – I would like to emphasise – unparalleled icebreaker fleet, the largest in the world, which is an enormous competitive advantage for us that opens vast opportunities for developing logistics and industry, creating new jobs, carrying out the integrated development of Arctic urban and rural areas, implementing truly global projects, and pursuing cooperation with our international partners and friends, and everyone who is willing to work with Russia.
#russianfleet #icebreaker #leningrad
🇷🇺 Meet Russia’s new Arctic Bogatyr: What we know about the Evpaty Kolovrat icebreaker
The Evpaty Kolovrat icebreaker has completed state testing and is expected to join the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet in the near future.
🛳 The 82-meter long, 19-meter wide, 9.2-meter tall icebreaker displaces 4,080 tons, and can penetrate ice up to a meter thick. It has a cruising range of 7,600 nautical miles, a thirty-day endurance, and a speed up to 14 knots in clear waters.
🛳 The ship is driven by a powerful diesel-electric propulsion system with twin azimuth thrusters. Along with icebreaking, the vessel can provide towing support, deliver cargoes to remote areas, serve as a rescue ship for vessels in distress, conduct hydrographic surveys, and perform general patrols.
🛳 The Evpaty Kolovrat is a Project 21180M icebreaker class – a modernization and downsizing of the Project 21180 Ilya Muromets – a vessel commissioned into the Northern Fleet in 2017 to become the first new icebreaker tailored specifically for naval use to be delivered in nearly 50 years.
⚔️ The updated vessel is named after Evpaty Kolovrat, a 12th century Russian bogatyr heralded for his bravery, who legend has it died fighting a numerically superior Mongol army.
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#RussianFleet #RussianArctic
The Evpaty Kolovrat icebreaker has completed state testing and is expected to join the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet in the near future.
🛳 The 82-meter long, 19-meter wide, 9.2-meter tall icebreaker displaces 4,080 tons, and can penetrate ice up to a meter thick. It has a cruising range of 7,600 nautical miles, a thirty-day endurance, and a speed up to 14 knots in clear waters.
🛳 The ship is driven by a powerful diesel-electric propulsion system with twin azimuth thrusters. Along with icebreaking, the vessel can provide towing support, deliver cargoes to remote areas, serve as a rescue ship for vessels in distress, conduct hydrographic surveys, and perform general patrols.
🛳 The Evpaty Kolovrat is a Project 21180M icebreaker class – a modernization and downsizing of the Project 21180 Ilya Muromets – a vessel commissioned into the Northern Fleet in 2017 to become the first new icebreaker tailored specifically for naval use to be delivered in nearly 50 years.
⚔️ The updated vessel is named after Evpaty Kolovrat, a 12th century Russian bogatyr heralded for his bravery, who legend has it died fighting a numerically superior Mongol army.
@SputnikInt
#RussianFleet #RussianArctic