Sudostrojenije shifted the hull of the first serial icebreaker of project 22220, the Siberia, to the place of the recently launched lead icebreaker, the Arktika, shipyard says Baltiysky Zavod.
This technological operation has been held for the second time. Last year saw the same shifting of the Arktika.
This time, 1/3 of the ship hull weighing 3,500 t passed 125 meters to the place where construction will continue up to the launching.
Sergei Chernogubovsky, head of project 22220, says 11% of the hull works have been completed so far.
The second serial icebreaker of Project 22220, the Ural, will be laid down at the place earlier occupied by the Siberia.
Three nuclear-powered icebreakers of Project 22220 ordered by Rosatom Corporation will be built to RS class.
Ship’s specifications: Length – 173.3 m; Beam – 34 m; Designed draught — 10.5 m; Operational draught, min – 8.55 m; Designed displacement – 33,540 t, crew – 75. Specified lifetime – 40 years.
Each icebreaker will be powered by two RITM-200 reactors of 175 MW. The system was developed specially for this ship.
The ship was designed by Central Design Bureau Iceberg in 2009. The icebreaker’s advanced dual-draft capability makes it suitable for operations both in the Arctic waters and in the mouths of the northern rivers. The icebreakers will be operated in deep waters of western Arctic areas (Barents, Pechora and Kara Seas) and in shallow waters of river estuaries (Yenisey’s mouth and the Gulf of Ob).
Baltiysky Zavod OJSC (Saint-Petersburg) specializes in construction of rank 1 surface-crafts, ice class vessels with nuclear and diesel-electric propulsion plants, nuclear floating energy units, floating distilling plants.
The shipyard was set up in 1856. In its history Baltiysky Zavod which had built over 600 ships and vessels and was privatized several times and returned to state control when financial problems arose. In late 2011, the shipyard once more fell under the control of the state represented by the United Shipbuilding Corporation. To preserve the staff and the competence of the shipyard, USC founded Baltiysky Zavod – Sudostroyeniye LLC. The Company’s staff currently numbers 4,000 employees.
The backlog of orders of Baltiysky Zavod-Sudostroyeniye LLC is currently valued at about RUB 150 bln. The largest orders are: three 60-MW nuclear icebreakers, 25-MW diesel-electric icebreaker, floating power unit of the world’s first floating nuclear heat and power plant, engineering products. In 2015, the Company’s revenue totaled RUB 11.857 mln, net profit – RUB 1.229 mln, current assets – RUB 62.736 bln.
The construction of the series of Project 22220 icebreakers will be completed by 2020, Vyacheslav Ruksha, Director General of FSUE Atomflot, has told.
“Mooring trials of the Arktika, the lead ship launched at Baltiysky Zavod recently, will be completed in December 2017. Nuclear-powered icebreaker Sibirwill complete the trials in December 2019, the Ural – in December 2020,” said Vyacheslav Ruksha.
He said 10 crewmembers of the Arktika have been defined with Aleksandr Spirin to be the icebreaker’s Captain.
Today, Baltiysky Zavod shipyard (Saint-Petersburg) has launched the Arktika, lead nuclear-powered icebreaker of Project 22220 built to the order of Rosatom Corporation.
The first serial icebreaker of Project 22220, the Sibir, was launched in May 2015. The date of keel-laying ceremony for the Ural is still under discussion.
