Here’s What You Need to Remember: Whichever country has an interest in the Arctic area will still need to break through some ice, though there will be less ice in the future. Whoever gets there first ...

The Soviet Union was the original progenitor of Russia’s icebreakers. The first of the Arktika-class was built in the early 1970s, and the class was represented by 6 hulls, though most of the earlier ...

Russia’s new nuclear-powered icebreaker, the Arktika, took its maiden voyage out of St. Petersburg on Tuesday for a two-week journey to the northern port of Murmansk. The move comes as leaders of the ...

St. Petersburg — Russia's new flagship nuclear-powered icebreaker, said to be the world's largest and most powerful, left a shipyard on Tuesday headed for the Arctic. The massive ship is the physical ...

The world’s largest nuclear-powered icebreaker took its first maiden voyage but, despite being nuclear-powered, made the trip fueled by diesel. Arktika will be out to sea again next year. Completed in ...

The 568-foot-long Arktika is powered by two nuclear reactors and capable of breaking through ice 13 feet deep. Russia's interest in the Arctic is... Russia launched the world's biggest, most powerful ...

MOSCOW, October 3. /TASS/. The first nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika of project 22220 has reached the North Pole during her trials, the Baltic Shipyard said on Saturday. "At 18.00 on October 3, the ...

Russia on Thursday launched the new, nuclear powered icebreaker Arktika in St Petersburg. It shows Russia's ambitions to control the top of the... Russia Aims To Profit Big From Arktika, World's ...

Russia has failed to complete tests on its newest nuclear-powered icebreaker—the largest of its kind in the world—as there was not enough ice in the Arctic to carry out the trials. The Arktika ...

They were rushin’ to the North Pole. Russia is still waiting to test its new nuclear-powered icebreaker because the Arctic ice wasn’t thick enough on its first trip, state news agency TASS reported.

The multipurpose nuclear ice-breaker Arktika is seen during its departure from the Baltic Shipyard for ice trials in the Arctic Ocean. ZUMAPRESS.com Russia’s new nuclear-powered icebreaker, the ...