Have the news, there are at least two circumstances, which distinguish it in a General thread and make a event of the day. Nuclear-powered icebreakers in Primorye never built, and vessels of a similar class are generally not created neither in Russia nor anywhere else. The second reason is that super-expensive contract received the power of binding document… in remote mode.
If the General Director of “Atomflot” Mustafa Kashka and his counterpart Director General of shipbuilding complex “Star” Sergey Tseluyko decided to exchange signatures and handshakes at the same table, one of the two had to exit the isolation mode and get on the plane with transfers almost daily. Or seven days and nights to drive from Murmansk to Vladivostok by car. Because the train will be even longer.
But now, it turns out, on travel and tickets can be saved: the head of the “Atomflot” has put his signature in Murmansk, and the General Director “Stars” – in Vladivostok. Between, if straight, was 6 thousand miles and six time zones.
the value of the contract today is not officially voiced, but in mid-January 2020 the resolution of the Russian government, according to which the construction of a head nuclear-powered icebreaker “Leader” in 2020-2027 years budget is allocated 127,576 billion. The term of commissioning – 2027-th. The state defined “Rosatom”, the developer – its affiliated structure FGUP “Atomflot”.
a year earlier, on 27 March 2019, issued a decree of the government of Russia No. 538-R “On establishment of OOO “Shipbuilding complex “Zvezda” only by building a nuclear icebreaker of project 10510 “Leader”.
“it is an important step in the history of the nuclear icebreaker fleet, – commented on the signing of Mustafa Kashka. The commissioning of this vessel will allow “Atomflot” to ensure safe and regular Postings in the Eastern Arctic region, will provide year-round navigation in the water area of the Northern sea route will open new opportunities of the high-latitude commercial routes.”
the Nuclear-powered submarines “Leader” is designed in TSKB “the iceberg” (St.-Petersburg) and will have two reactor plant RITM-400. Them developed by the Nizhny Novgorod OKBM “OKBM”. The total capacity of 120 MW, this will allow to overcome the ice thickness of more than 4 meters and to create a navigable channel with a width of up to 50 meters – so it could easily follow ocean-going tankers and gas carriers.
the dimensions of the icebreaker are impressive: length – 209 meters, width is 47.7. Displacement (at draft at design waterline) – about 68 thousand tons. While in pure water “Leader” needs to reach a speed of 22 knots. Four turbine generator for 37 MW will provide energy system propulsion – four propeller of the motor to 30 MW.
the plans Dithe reaction of the Northern sea route have to 2033 three icebreaker Lider: head forward on the track at the end of the 2027-th – the beginning of 2028, the first production by the end of 2030, the second serial in December 2032.
the Marginal cost of the head “Leader” in 127,5 billion rubles, which was called in the Ministry of industry and trade, and ultimately became the government. Against serial icebreakers of this project, the head of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev proposed a scheme of mixed financing, in which 50 percent of the project financed by the budget, and the other half in the Corporation at the expense of own or borrowed funds. Another option discussed the possibility of building a serial icebreakers “Leader” of the concession.
