WORLD'S LARGEST ICEBREAKERS

In a ceremony held on May 25, 2019 at the Baltic Shipyard in Saint Petersburg, the nuclear-powered icebreaker Ural was launched. The Ural is the third in the class of three Project 22220 icebreakers. The Ural, and her two sister ships, Arktika, and Sibir, are 567 feet long and 111 feet wide, making them the largest icebreakers ever constructed. The ships displace a massive 33,000 tons and are able to break through 3 meters of ice. They each have two RITM-200 reactors of 175MWt each, delivering 60 MW at the propellers via twin turbine-generators and three motors.