Russia’s newest icebreaker is vital to the Northern Sea Route, says Rosatom

The Ural, Russia's third vessel of the powerful LK-60 class, arrived it its home port of Murmansk earlier this week.

By Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer December 1, 2022
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The 173-meter-long nuclear-powered icebreaker Ural arrived in Murmansk on Tuesday after a six-day voyage from the Baltic Yard in St. Petersburg. It moored at Atomflot, the nuclear icebreaker base in the Kola Bay operated by nuclear power company Rosatom.

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