The signing of the acceptance certificate will take place on November 29MURMANSK, November 16.
/tass/. The second serial nuclear icebreaker of Project 22220 Ural, which is being built at the Baltic Plant by order of FSUE Atomflot, will be available to the enterprise at the end of November. This was announced on Wednesday by Leonid Irlitsa, Acting Director General of Atomflot, during the strategic session "Implementation of infrastructure projects of the NSR under sanctions pressure", which is taking place in Murmansk.
"On the 22nd of [November], the launch of the Yakutia will be carried out at the Baltic Plant, and at the same time preparations will be made for the launch of the Ural icebreaker, and at the end of the month we expect it to join the ranks of our enterprise," Irlitsa said.
As follows from the data of his presentation, the signing of the acceptance certificate of the icebreaker "Ural" by Atomflot is scheduled for November 29.
Konstantin Stasyuk, Deputy Director of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) Project Implementation Department - Head of the NSR Infrastructure Development Department of Rosatom State Corporation, added that construction of two more serial icebreakers is currently underway: Yakutia, due in 2024, Chukotka in 2026. At the same time, the localization of the construction of these icebreakers is 96%. "The contractor of these orders - the Baltic Plant - has been under Western sanctions since 2014, all issues related to this have been worked out. Of course, the tightening of sanctions affected, there were disruptions in the supply of equipment [during the construction of the Ural], foreign partners refused even those who had already supplied the equipment to send their adjusters. But everything has been successfully overcome. The Ural has passed sea trials, and on November 23 it will go to Murmansk," he concluded.
The universal nuclear icebreaker Ural is the third vessel of the project 22220. The ceremony of its laying took place on July 25, 2016. The Ural was launched on May 26, 2019. The godmother of the icebreaker was the chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina. In October, the press service of the Baltic Plant (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation, USC) reported that the Ural had begun sea trials.
The universal nuclear icebreakers of Project 22220 are the largest and most powerful icebreaking vessels in the world. Their main task is to ensure year-round navigation in the Western Arctic region. Vessels of this project in the coming years should become the basis of the civil icebreaking fleet of Russia.
The NSR development plan has been approved until 2035. It is planned to allocate 1.8 trillion rubles from various sources for its implementation. Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia possesses and is building modern icebreakers for further development of the NSR as a powerful transport artery of national and global importance with year-round navigation. Alexey Chekunkov, the head of the Ministry of Regional Development of Russia, reported that the construction of six more icebreakers is necessary to ensure the cargo flow of 200 million tons by 2030 along the Northern Sea Route.
The Northern Sea Route is the shortest water route between the European part of Russia and the Far East. The length of the route from the Kara Gate to Providence Bay is about 5.6 thousand km. At the same time, it is completely located in the territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone of Russia, which is especially important in the conditions of external sanctions pressure, when the logistics supply chains of products are disrupted.
