Icebreakers

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Its main functions will be patrolling, rescue duty, search and assistance to ships in distress, icebreaking operations.

The Baltic Shipyard (PSZ) Yantar (Kaliningrad, part of USC) in the spring of 2022 will begin construction of a multifunctional ice-class rescue vessel based on the modernized MPSV06M project. This was reported by TASS with reference to the general director of PSZ Ilya Samarin.

“In the spring, we plan to start building an ice-class rescue vessel of the MPSV06M project,” he said.

Samarin recalled that the Yantar Shipyard signed a contract with the Directorate of the State Customer of the Sea Transport Development Program for the construction of a multifunctional ice-class rescue vessel of the MPSV06M project.

The MPSV06 project of a 7 MW multifunctional rescue vessel - icebreaker of the Bering Strait type was developed by the Marine Engineering Bureau (MIB). The vessel will be built in the interests of the FSBI "Marine Rescue Service".

The multifunctional rescue vessel is designed for patrolling, rescue duty, search and assistance to ships in distress, and icebreaking operations. The vessel has an unlimited navigation area, the sixth ice class. Length - 87.75 m, width - 19.1 m, design draft - 6.52 m, speed - 15 knots, crew - 22 people, special personnel - 12 people.

The Baltic shipyard "Yantar" was founded on July 8, 1945 on the basis of the F. Schichau shipyard. Located in Kaliningrad. It specializes in the construction of small and medium tonnage vessels for military and civil purposes, as well as in carrying out ship repair works. The plant has built 160 warships and more than 500 civilian ships. Currently, the controlling stake in JSC PSZ Yantar is controlled by the state represented by JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation.

The “Sibir“ is the second of Russia’s new class of powerful icebreakers tasked to keep the Northern Sea Route open for year-round shipping. She left port at the Baltic shipyard in St. Petersburg at 05.17 in the morning on January 13 and has, for now, expected arrival at her new homeport Murmansk on January 20.

The transition through the Baltic Sea and around Scandinavia is expected to take 8-9 days, Rosatomflot informs.

After a few days at port in Murmansk, the “Sibir” will begin the first working voyage in the western sector of the Northern Sea Route, mainly in the area of the Ob and Yensei rivers outlet and in the Kara Sea. Shipping to and from ports like Sabetta and Dudinka in the Russian Arctic are already supported by the “Arktika” icebreaker of the same class as “Sibir”.