Ледоколы морского флота России готовятся к зимней навигации

In the upcoming 2025-2026 winter navigation season, 34 icebreakers of FSUE "Rosmorport" will ensure accessibility to 16 freezing seaports of the country in accordance with the vessel deployment plan approved by Rosmorrechflot after a meeting between the head of the federal agency, Andrey Tarasenko, with the general director of the enterprise, Sergey Pylyin, and heads of port administrations.

In the water areas of seaports located in the Gulf of Finland, the Azov, Caspian, Kara, White, and Okhotsk Seas, and on the approaches to them, icebreakers will carry out vessel transits, ensuring accessibility.

The enterprise will prepare port icebreakers for navigation by November 1 before the start of the winter period, linear icebreakers by December 1, and icebreakers for the Azov basin by November 15. Overview ice charts and forecasts for the basins will be provided by hydrometeorological centers.

12 icebreakers will be involved in the Gulf of Finland: «Kapitan Sorokin», «Mudyug», «Semen Dezhnev», «Kapitan Kosolapov», «Kapitan Zarubin» will be sent to the seaport of Big Port St. Petersburg. «Viktor Chernomyrdin» will take over icebreaker support for the approach fairways and the water area of the seaport of Primorsk. «Vladivostok», «Kapitan M. Izmailov» and «Ivan Kruzenstern» will ensure the accessibility of the seaports of Vysotsk and Vyborg, and «Kapitan Nikolaev» and «Kapitan Plakhin» will ensure the accessibility of the seaport of Ust-Luga. The icebreaker «Krasin» will remain in reserve for work in the Baltic.

In the seaports of the Azov Sea — Taganrog, Azov, Rostov-on-Don, and Yeysk — vessel transits will be carried out by «Kapitan Demidov», «Kapitan Moshkin», «Kapitan Chudinov», «Kapitan Krutov», «Fanagoria», and «Georgy Sedov». Some icebreakers may be involved in the seaports of Kavkaz and Temryuk.

On the Volga-Caspian Shipping Canal and in the seaports of Astrakhan and Olya, ice operations will be carried out by «Kapitan Chechkin», «Kapitan Bukaev», and «Kapitan Metsaik», and these vessels will also participate in the development of ferry crossing leads in the Bakhtemir and Starovolzhsky branches.

The water area of the White Sea will be served by 4 icebreakers. «Dikson» will be on duty in the water areas of the seaports of Arkhangelsk and Kandalaksha, and «Kapitan Evdokimov», «Kapitan Chadaev», and «Avraamiy Zavenyagin» will be on the section from the Mudyugsky receiving buoy to the seaport of Arkhangelsk. In the spring, the vessels of the White Sea group, if necessary, may take part in flood control measures in the flood-prone areas of the Northern Dvina River to prevent flooding of the surrounding settlements.

Beyond the Arctic Circle, «Novorossiysk», «Tor», and «Pomor» will be operated in the seaport of Sabetta. Also, «Murmansk» will arrive in the Arctic to carry out transits along the Northern Sea Route.

In the Far East, uninterrupted navigation in the Sea of Okhotsk will be guaranteed by 5 icebreakers of FSUE «Rosmorport». The icebreakers «Magadan», «Kapitan Khlebnikov», «Kapitan Dranitsyn», and «St. Petersburg» will operate in the seaport of Vanino. The latter can be used for vessel transits on the approaches to the seaport of De-Kastri. The icebreaker «Moscow» will ensure the accessibility of the seaport of Magadan.