Russia commissioned the most powerful diesel icebreaker in the world
Russian President Vladimir Putin today took part in the flag-raising ceremony on the new icebreaker Viktor Chernomyrdin in St. Petersburg.
“The national flag of our country has just been raised on a new linear diesel icebreaker - the largest of the icebreakers of this class, the most powerful in the world, which is named after our outstanding compatriot Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin. And therefore it is symbolic that this modern, well-equipped icebreaker, bearing his name, was built by domestic shipbuilders and in Russian shipyards.
Thanks to you, our country’s icebreaker fleet received a powerful vessel of high ice class. These characteristics make it possible to use it in solving a wide range of issues, primarily in ensuring navigation in the Gulf of Finland and along the Northern Sea Route.
Such technologically advanced sea vessels, capable of operating at low temperatures and passing through solid ice, are of particular importance for Russia, a great Arctic power, for the implementation of our strategic plans for the development and exploration of the vastness of the North, promising transport and logistics routes.
It is well known that we have a unique ice fleet and occupy a leading position in the development and study of Arctic territories. And this primacy needs to be constantly confirmed, every day, to build up our positions, strengthen and renew the fleet, introduce new, advanced technologies for the construction of icebreakers and other ice-class vessels.
Work is already underway on several series of diesel and nuclear icebreakers, which have no analogues in the world.
The future belongs to them, and I am confident that our talented shipbuilders are ready to innovate, to search and implement bold technical solutions, and they will certainly cope with all the tasks facing them, our country,” Putin said.
"Viktor Chernomyrdin" is the world's largest icebreaker with a diesel-electric installation and has a high ice class Icebreaker8. Equipped with two helipads, it can not only provide icebreaker assistance, but also participate in scientific expeditions, transport containers and dangerous goods.
Its length is 147 m, width - 29 m, cruising endurance - 60 days, power plant power - 25 MW. It will be capable of continuously moving in ice up to 2 m thick and performing icebreaking work in ice up to 3 m. After commissioning, it will have to replace the Ermak icebreaker, which has been in operation since 1974, and is actively serving on the Northern Sea Route.
Russia entered the top three in terms of shipbuilding volumes for the first time in the third quarter, increasing its tonnage to 860 thousand CGT.
Let us recall that on October 21, the world’s most powerful nuclear-powered icebreaker “Arktika” of Project 22220 entered the Russian nuclear fleet.
"Arktika" will become the lead of five ships of the new series: "Siberia", "Ural", "Yakutia" and "Chukotka". They will be engaged in escorting ships with hydrocarbons from the fields of the Yamal and Gydan Peninsulas and from the Kara Sea shelf to the markets of the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
Innovative technologies will allow these icebreakers to navigate both deep- and shallow-water routes, breaking through ice up to three meters thick. The length of each vessel is 173,3 meters, width - 34 meters, displacement - 33,5 thousand tons.
In addition, the first icebreaker of the new Leader class is being built at the Zvezda shipyard in the Far East.
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