Project 22220 is the world's largest and most powerful class of universal nuclear icebreaker, built to lead convoys through the Arctic along the Northern Sea Route. The vessel is driven by a twin RITM-200 reactor plant with 175 MW of thermal reactor power feeding a 60 MW propulsion system and a 72 MW steam-turbine plant, enabling the ship to break continuous flat fast ice up to 2.8 m thick at 1.5–2 knots.
The hull measures 173.3 m in length and 34 m in beam, with a side height of 15.2 m at midships; a distinctive dual-draft design (working draft from 8.55 m, CWL draft 10.5 m) lets the same vessel operate both in deep Arctic seas and in shallow Siberian river estuaries — the universality that gives the project its name. The ship carries a crew of 75 and is classed KM ✪ Icebreaker 9 [2] AUT2-ICS EPP.
As a $300 million class capital asset, Project 22220 addresses state Arctic programmes and infrastructure operators developing year-round polar logistics: escorting LNG carriers, securing northern supply runs and opening the shortest Europe–Asia shipping corridor. This is sovereign-scale technology in which Russia holds a unique, decades-deep industrial position.
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