A complex rescue operation has been completed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory: a Mi-8 helicopter removed a sick crew member from the nuclear icebreaker "Ural". The vessel was located in the Kara Sea, 260 kilometers from the nearest airfield — the village of Dikson.
By the decision of the acting head of the Krasnoyarsk MTU Rosaviatsia, Igor Seleznev, a search and rescue helicopter with a medical team on board flew to the icebreaker. Doctors were pre-delivered from Norilsk by an air ambulance flight to reduce the time on site.
The helicopter crew landed directly on the icebreaker's helipad. The evacuation of the sailor took only five minutes — it was necessary to act in a short time due to weather conditions and remoteness from the coast.
On the way back, in Dikson, the patient was transferred to another air ambulance board and delivered to Norilsk, where he received qualified medical care. The entire operation — from the helicopter's departure to the transfer of the patient to doctors — took just over two hours.
The nuclear icebreaker "Ural" of Project 22220 is one of the most powerful vessels of the Russian icebreaker fleet. Mi-8 helicopters remain the main means of rapid evacuation in the Arctic latitudes, where there is no developed infrastructure, and the weather dictates strict time constraints.
Earlier www1.ru reported on how a Mi-8 helicopter urgently evacuated another injured sailor, but in Kamchatka. A 32-year-old crew member of the trawler "SRTM Olafsson" received a lacerated wound to his arm.