OREANDA-NEWS. October 22, 2008. A mock-up of nuclear icebreaker of new generation has been tested in the ice model basin of Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute in St.Petersburg with the test being very much like a real high-latitude navigation amid heavy ice.

The director of the institute, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valentin Pashin says that, presently, a group of specialists from Iceberg Design Bureau and colleagues from Finland are working on the technical project of the ship. The project is to ready in 2009. The vessel will most probably be built by Baltiyskiy Zavod, a facility that has built most of Russia’s nuclear icebreakers.