On November 18, 2025, a solemn ceremony of laying the seventh (sixth serial) universal nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 (LK-60YA), named Stalingrad (construction number 05714), took place in St. Petersburg at JSC Baltiyskiy Zavod (as part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - JSC USC). The customer of the icebreaker is FSUE Atomflot. President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin took part in the video conference.
The foundation board of the universal nuclear icebreaker Stalingrad (construction number 05714) of project 22220 (LK-60YA), laid at JSC Baltiyskiy Zavod on 11/18/2025 (c) Alexey Danichev / RIA Novosti
Together with Vladimir Putin, the event was attended by Igor Rudenya, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-Western Federal District, Andrey Puchkov, General Director of the USC, and Alexey Likhachev, General Director of the Rosatom State Corporation. Anton Alikhanov, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, and Andrey Bocharov, Governor of the Volgograd Region, who is on Mamayev Kurgan in the hero city of Volgograd, participated in the videoconference.
During the ceremony, Pavel Petrovich Vinokurov, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and a participant in the Battle of Stalingrad, handed over a capsule with earth from Mamayev Kurgan to Alexey Likhachev, Director General of Rosatom. Subsequently, it will be stored on the icebreaker Stalingrad.
The nuclear icebreaker Stalingrad (construction number 05714) is the second laid down in accordance with the contract signed on February 2, 2023 by FSUE Atomflot and JSC Baltiyskiy Zavod for the construction of the sixth and seventh (fifth and sixth serial) universal nuclear icebreakers of project 22220 (LK-60YA). The construction and financing of the fifth and sixth serial universal nuclear icebreakers (UAL) should be carried out in a 50-50 ratio from the federal budget and at the expense of FSUE Atomflot.
Earlier, on January 26, 2024, the first Leningrad nuclear icebreaker (construction number 05713), the sixth (fifth serial) project 22220, was laid down at the Baltic Shipyard. According to the terms of the contract, the commissioning of the fifth serial UAL is scheduled for December 2028, and the sixth for December 2030.
Earlier, on December 29, 2022, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin signed an order of the Government of the Russian Federation on the implementation of budget investments in 2023-2030 at the expense of budget allocations from the federal budget for the construction of two serial universal nuclear icebreakers of project 22220. The state customer of the construction is the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, and the developer (customer) is FSUE Atomflot. According to the orders, budget investments at the expense of budget allocations from the federal budget should cover 50% of the planned cost of ships, and another 50% will be made up of funds from FSUE Atomflot.
According to the decree, budget investments are expected to be made in 2023-2030 at the expense of federal budget allocations for the construction of the fifth and sixth serial (that is, the sixth and seventh overall) universal nuclear icebreakers of project 22220 (LK-60YA) with a capacity of 60 megawatts each, with commissioning in 2028 and 2030. The estimated cost of construction of the fifth serial icebreaker will be 56.612082 billion rubles, and the sixth serial icebreaker - 61.3446884 billion rubles. Accordingly, the total amount of budget investments in their construction during the specified period was estimated at 58.9783855 billion rubles.
However, in the fall of 2023, it became known that the cost of building the fifth and sixth serial nuclear icebreakers of the 22220 project could double compared to the contract, and the Russian Government proposes to reduce budget allocations for the construction of these two icebreakers by 3.72 billion rubles in 2024-2026.
It is also reported that several changes have been made to the electric propulsion system (EDMS) of the fifth and sixth serial nuclear icebreakers of the 22220 project relative to the previously installed EDMS on ships of this series. In particular, the supplier of the rowing electric motors was replaced and another component base was used to create the power elements of the system, which is associated with sanctions restrictions. In addition, based on the operational experience of the existing icebreakers of the 22220 project, a number of changes were made to the design of the electric propulsion system to increase its reliability, increase the service life of its elements and ensure additional stability in operation.
Thus, to date, seven new-generation nuclear icebreakers of Project 22220 (LK-60YA) have already been ordered for FSUE Atomflot, which are being built in St. Petersburg at JSC Baltiyskiy Zavod. To date, the first four nuclear icebreakers of this project, the Arctic, Siberia, Ural and Yakutia, have been commissioned (in 2020-2024), and two more, the Chukotka, are under construction (construction number 05712, was laid down on December 16, 2020 and launched on November 6, 2024 year) and the aforementioned "Leningrad".
The ceremony of laying the universal nuclear icebreaker Stalingrad (building number 05714) of project 22220 (LK-60YA) at the Baltic Shipyard JSC. Saint Petersburg, 11/18/2025 (c) Alexey Danichev / RIA Novosti and JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation
An image of the universal nuclear icebreaker Stalingrad (construction number 05714) of project 22220 (LK-60YA) from a poster from the laying ceremony. Saint Petersburg, 11/18/2025 (c) United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC
