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Arktika class icebreaker

Shipbuilder:	Saint Petersburg Baltic plant
Built:	1975-1994 (one completed in 2006)
General characteristics
Length:	148m-159m
Beam:	30m (28m at waterline)
Draft:	?
Displacement:	23,000t
Propulsion:	2×OK-900 reactors, 171MW each 52MW propulsive power
Speed:	18 knots (Arktika) 20.6 knots (all subsequent)
Endurance:	7.5 months
Complement:	138-200
Ice thickness:	2m-2.8m maximum

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 vacation expeditions to the Arctic.

Vessels

Ship Name	Launched	Comments
NS Arktika	1975
NS Sibir	1977	Not operational.
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.

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