The universal nuclear icebreaker "Ural" of Project 22220 arrived at the port of the village of Dikson — the northernmost settlement in Russia — to deliver humanitarian aid from the satellite television operator "Tricolor". As part of a joint initiative with the state corporation "Rosatom", modern satellite equipment, televisions, and soundbars of the company's own production were loaded onto the ship in Murmansk.
The equipment is intended for social institutions in Dikson: a secondary school, a children's art school, a cultural and leisure center, and a central library. Thanks to the new equipment, local residents will have access to digital multi-channel television, and cultural institutions will have expanded opportunities for educational and enlightenment events.
The action is timed to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the development of the Northern Sea Route. According to Vyacheslav Ruksha, Deputy General Director — Director of the Northern Sea Route Directorate of "Rosatom", the development of infrastructure in Arctic settlements is considered a key element of the strategy for the integrated development of the route. He noted that Dikson, which historically provided coal to the first Soviet icebreakers in the 1930s, remains a symbol of continuity in Russia's Arctic policy.
"Ural" is a Russian nuclear icebreaker of Project 22220 (LK-60Ya), commissioned on November 22, 2022.
Some technical characteristics of the nuclear icebreaker "Ural":
- Displacement: 26,771 tons (minimum), 32,747 tons (standard), 33,540 tons (full according to CWL).
- Length: 173.3 m (maximum), 172.7 m (overall) (160.0 m according to CWL).
- Width: 34.0 m (33.0 m according to CWL).
- Height: 15.2 m (side at midship), 59.3 m (maximum).
- Draft: 9.03 m (minimum operating), 10.5 m (full according to CWL).
- Engines: 2 RITM-200 nuclear reactors of 175 MW each.
- Power: 60 MW (81,500 hp) on shafts.
- Propulsion: 3 fixed-pitch propellers with 4 removable blades.
- Speed: 22.0 knots (full) in clear water, 12.0 knots in 1.5 m ice, 2.0 knots in 2.8–2.9 m ice, 3.0 m (maximum ice thickness).
- Cruising range: unlimited.
- Endurance: 7 years (fuel reload), 6 months (food supplies).
- Crew: 53 people.
- Hull material: special alloy steel.
Read more materials on the topic:
- Nuclear icebreaker "Sibir" for the first time in history used the "close" method for piloting the ship "Norilsk Nickel"
- "Zvezdochka" in the import substitution chain: the screw for the gas carrier "Synergy" will be produced by a domestic enterprise
- The carrier of hypersonic "Zircons", the frigate "Marshal Shaposhnikov", will demonstrate the power of the Russian fleet at DIMDEX-2026
