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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Arktika, Russia's new nuclear-powered icebreaker championed by the Kremlin as the largest and most powerful of its kind in the world, has set sail on its maiden voyage to the Arctic as part of 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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Arktika-class comes equipped with a bubbler system that shoots jets of hot steam below the surface of the water. The Soviet Union was the original progenitor of ...

MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. The Arktika lead nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 (Rosatom’s Atomflot fleet) left for the first voyage in waters of the Northern Sea Route. The eastbound voyage from ...

MURMANSK, November 24. /TASS/. The Arktika nuclear-powered icebreaker, which was commissioned on October 21, escorted the first vessel along the Northern Sea Route, the press service of the nuclear ...

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 ...