Arktika class icebreaker

Yamal icebreaker
Class overview
Builders:	Saint Petersburg Baltic plant
Operators:	Murmansk Shipping Company
Built:	1975–2006
Completed:	6
Active:	4
General characteristics
Displacement:	23,000 t
Length:	148 metres (486 ft) to 159 metres (522 ft)
Beam:	30 metres (98 ft)
Propulsion:	2×OK-900 reactors, 171MW each 52MW propulsive power
Speed:	20.6 knots (38.2 km/h; 23.7 mph)
Endurance:	7.5 months
Complement:	138–200

The Arktika class is a Russian (former Soviet) class of nuclear powered icebreakers. They are owned by the federal government, but are operated by the Murmansk Shipping Company (MSCO). Of the ten civilian nuclear powered vessels built by Russia (and the Soviet Union), six have been of this type. They are used for clearing shipping lanes north of Siberia as well as for scientific and recreational expeditions to the Arctic.

Vessels

Ship Name	Launched	Comments
NS Arktika	1975	taken out of service, reactor removed in 2008
NS Sibir	1977	taken out of service in the 1992 due problem in the vessel’s steam generation system
NS Rossiya	1985
NS Sovjetskij Sojuz	1990
NS Yamal	1992
NS 50 Let Pobedy	2007	Built as NS Ural, completed in 2007.

Ship Notes

The NS Arktika was the first surface ship to reach the North Pole on August 17, 1977.

References

• Nuclear Powered Icebreakers, Bellona Foundation
• Technical information, MSCO
• Russia scraps another nuclear-powered icebreaker, Barents Observer,
• The Yamal, a nuclear powered Icebreaker page, Cool Anatartica