“Russia is building the world’s most powerful icebreaker fleet, including giants such as the ‘Leader’, which no one has ever built before,” the Russian leader said Wednesday as he had a meeting with the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society. The construction of the Leader, or Project 10510 …
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The Christophe de Margerie, a liquefied natural gas tanker operated by Russian shipping firm Sovcomflot, made history this week when it docked at the remote Arctic terminal of Sabetta, after sailing through the normally ice-locked Northern Sea Route (NSR) from Jiangsu in China. Traveling solo through the Bering Strait, it …
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Putin delayed the completion of construction. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin has postponed the commissioning of the nuclear-powered icebreaker “Arktika” from 2017 to 2019. The reason was problems with the equipment – the test equipment was to hold Kharkov turbine plant. “The key issue “Arctic” steel turbine. They had …
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