Rossiya (icebreaker)

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

IMO no. 8424240

The nuclear-powered icebreaker Rossiya (Russian: Россия, Rossiya German transcription ), in German: " Russia", according to the 50 Let Pobedy the second largest icebreaker in the world.

The Rossiya has a displacement of 22,920 tons, nuclear drive and an engine output of 55,000 kW or 75,000 hp and can break through up to five meters thick ice.

The ship needed at 10 kn permanent drive about 300 grams of uranium / day.

History

The keel laying of the nuclear icebreaker Arktika the modernized project, project 10521, was held at the Baltic plant in Leningrad on 20 February 1981. The launch took place on November 2, 1983. On 21 December 1985, the ship was commissioned and used in the Arctic. In January 1989, it took part in the rescue of the polar station SP -28. 1990 the ship sailed to the North Pole for the first time in world history with western tourists on board as a cruise ship. The vessel shall be used only in the Far North, independently can not drive the Rossiya in warm waters, because the nuclear reactors on board need cold water for cooling.

On 17 September 2011 the ship left its home port in Murmansk towards the North Pole with the expedition " Arktika -2011" on board.

Anatoly Alexeyevich Lamechow (1984 to 2010), Hero of Socialist Labor
M. A. Spirin (since 2010)

Arktika-class icebreaker Unitary enterprise Atomflot Baltic Shipyard Draft (hull) Turbo-electric transmission Steam turbine Arktika (icebreaker)

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