According to Vladimir Omelnitsky, the head of the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg, on September 1, 2023, Almaz Shipbuilding Company JSC hosted a laying ceremony for the Russian Navy of the diesel-electric icebreaker Svyatogor project 21180M (factory number 801). The bookmark was timed to the 90th anniversary of the company. This is the second icebreaker of the 21180M project.
The mortgage board of the diesel-electric icebreaker "Svyatogor" project 21180M (factory number 801) (c) Curious, laid on 01.09.2023 at JSC "Almaz Shipbuilding Company" in St. Petersburg for the Russian Navy forums.airbase.ru
Earlier, SF Almaz built for the Russian Navy a head diesel-electric icebreaker of the 21180M project, named Evpatiy Kolovrat (factory number 800). The laying of the icebreaker "Evpatiy Kolovrat" took place at the SF "Almaz" in St. Petersburg on December 12, 2018. The state contract for the construction of the head icebreaker of the 21180M project, worth, as reported, about 6 billion rubles, was issued by SF Almaz in 2017. The icebreaker Evpatiy Kolovrat was launched on November 24, 2020. The icebreaker entered factory sea trials in the Baltic Sea on December 1, 2022, but on January 15, 2023, it was sent from St. Petersburg to Kamchatka without a crew in tow of the civil tug "Sarmat", and after a six-month transition arrived in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on July 22. State tests of the icebreaker should be carried out here, its commissioning and raising of the flag, which, apparently, will happen by the end of the year. The Yevpatiy Kolovrat is to become a raid icebreaker to ensure, first of all, the basing of the 25th division of submarines of the Pacific Fleet in Vilyuchinsk in Kamchatka, equipped with new nuclear-powered strategic missile submarines of the Project 955 series.
At the laying ceremony of the Yevpatiya Kolovrat, it was announced that two icebreakers of this type are planned to be commissioned into the Navy by 2027. In March 2023, media reports appeared on the approval of the construction of the second icebreaker of the 21180M project, intended for the Northern Fleet, with commissioning by the end of 2027. Now it is laid under the name "Svyatogor".
The developer of the 21180M project is JSC "Vimpel Design Bureau" (Nizhny Novgorod). The 21180M project is a reduced and cheaper version of the diesel-electric icebreaker of the 21180 project (also developed by the Vimpel Design Bureau), according to which the Ilya Muromets icebreaker (factory number 02470) with a total displacement of about 6000 tons was built earlier at Admiralty Shipyards JSC in St. Petersburg, delivered to the Russian Navy on November 30, 2017 and became part of the Northern Fleet.
Initially, it was reported that the Russian Navy plans to build four icebreakers of the 21180 project in total. However, at the beginning of 2017, it became known that the Russian Ministry of Defense, for financial reasons, decided to abandon the continuation of the construction of the project 21180 series and proceed to the construction of shallow-seated icebreakers of the modified 21180M project with a total displacement of about 4,000 tons.
The icebreaker of the 21180M project, according to published data, has a total displacement of 4080 tons (against 6000 tons of the icebreaker of the 21180 project), a length of 82 m (85 m), a width of 19 m (20 m) and a draft of 4.6 m (against 7 m). The speed is 14 knots (15 knots), the cruising range is 7,600 miles (9,000 miles), the autonomy is halved to 30 days (instead of 60 days). The crew is 30 people (32). The ice permeability is preserved and declared at the level of 1 m.
At the laying ceremony at Almaz Shipbuilding Company JSC in St. Petersburg for the Russian Navy of the diesel-electric icebreaker Svyatogor project 21180M (factory number 801), 01.09.2023 (c) The Press service of the Administration of the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg
