New nuclear icebreaker "Yakutia" will set off on its first voyage on April 15

The universal nuclear icebreaker of Project 22220 "Yakutia" will set off on its first working voyage on April 15. This was announced by Yakov Antonov, Acting General Director of FSUE Atomflot.

According to him, April is the most important and busiest time of the winter-spring navigation.

He added that the icebreaker's crew will have to work in the Yenisei district of the Kara Sea.

"Yakutia" became the fourth icebreaker built at the Baltic Shipyard under Project 22220 commissioned by FSUE "Atomflot".

LK-60Ya type icebreakers of Project 22220 are a series of Russian universal nuclear icebreakers for operation in the Arctic Ocean. The index LK-60Ya stands for "icebreaker with a nuclear power plant with a capacity of 60 megawatts." They are designed for expeditions in the Arctic and servicing the Northern Sea Route.

Technical characteristics of Project 22220:

• Length - 173.3 m

• Width - 34 m

• Displacement - 33,540 tons

• Board height - 15.2 m

• Draft in linear icebreaker mode - 10.5 m

• Main power plant - two RITM-200 water-cooled nuclear reactors with a thermal capacity of 175 megawatts each

• Maximum speed - 22 knots (40.7 km/h)

• Icebreaking capacity (maximum thickness of solid ice that can be overcome by continuous movement) - 2.9 m

• Endurance - 6 months in terms of food supplies, 7 years - in terms of fuel resources

• Crew - 52 people

On Sunday, April 13, the icebreaker "Yakutia" completed the crossing, which began on April 9 from St. Petersburg, to its home port of Murmansk, covering more than 2,400 nautical miles.

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