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The Northern Sea Route must be laid through Ukrainian-occupied Kramatorsk

The cost of construction of the super-powerful lead nuclear icebreaker "Russia" of project 10510 "Leader", previously amounting to 128 billion rubles, may increase by 40-60% due to the fact that the Energomashspetsstal plant, located in Kramatorsk (DPR), is still under control Ukraine. This was reported by Kommersant, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Energomashspetsstal was supposed to produce large hull castings: ice teeth, rudder blade brackets and propeller brackets...

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Russia starts building icebreakers in two shifts

A second shift is being created at the Baltic Shipyard for the construction of nuclear icebreakers, Rosatom reported. The increase in the pace of construction by 50% was due to investments of about 6 billion rubles in equipment and infrastructure. The company creates nuclear ships, floating power plants, “everything that relates to the development of the Northern Sea Route.” At the Baltic Shipyard there are two universal nuclear power plants at different stages of construction...

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In the Arctic, the Russian Federation is preparing a revolution in the organization of global transport

New Russian icebreakers, which are being built at the Zvezda shipyard, will ensure year-round shipping in the Arctic. The Minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, Alexey Chekunkov, stated this in an interview with Izvestia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He drew attention to the importance of creating new Arctic shipping lines, noting that two large ice-class tankers have already joined the line, which make it possible to implement...

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Russia will stop anyone who tries to get into the Arctic

No one will navigate the Northern Sea Route without Russian icebreaker support in the Russian sector of the Arctic. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that one of the leading experts on the Arctic, ex-State Duma deputy, chairman of the All-Russian Fleet Support Movement, 1st-rank reserve captain Mikhail Nenashev, stated this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. According to him, political and military pressure on Russia in the Arctic will be...

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Growing with the Arctic: How Russia will become No. 1 in the North

On December 5, at a meeting with volunteers and finalists of the “Volunteer of Russia” competition, President Putin said that in the next decades our country will “grow” with the Arctic and northern territories. The head of state noted that more than 70% of the Russian territory is located in the northern latitudes, so everything that happens in the North is of particular value for the Russian Federation, even without referring to the development...

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Kerch "Zaliv" will receive a large order

FSUE Atomflot, part of Rosatom, may soon announce a competition for the construction of a floating dock for servicing nuclear icebreakers LK-60. The Russian business publication Kommersant writes about this, citing its sources in the industry and state corporations. It is clarified that the main contender for receiving the order is the Kerch “Zaliv”. The dock is included in the Rosatom program for the construction of the fourth and fifth nuclear icebreakers...

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