The second serial nuclear icebreaker "Ural" of project 22220 enters sea trials

The universal nuclear icebreaker "Ural", built at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg, has been completed and is being prepared for factory sea trials. All work on the icebreaker has been completed.

The exit of "Ural" to the ZHI is scheduled for October 11, the tests will be held in the waters of the Gulf of Finland. Details of the tests are not given, as well as the timing, but in November the icebreaker should be handed over to the customer. Earlier it was reported that sea trials would begin in September, but apparently for some reason they were shifted to October. At the same time, all work on the vessel was carried out according to the schedule.

The universal nuclear icebreaker "Ural" is the second serial and third icebreaker of project 22220, which is being built to provide year-round navigation along the Northern Sea Route. Laid down at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg on July 25, 2016 after the lead "Arktika" and the first serial "Siberia", launched on May 25, 2019, after which it was completed afloat. The reactor plant was launched in May this year.

The main power plant of the icebreakers includes two Ritm-200 reactors with a thermal capacity of 175 MW each. Its main advantage over other similar installations is its compactness and efficiency, as well as an energy-efficient integrated layout. The design of the reactors makes it possible to work reliably with the rolling of the nuclear-powered ship with an oscillation amplitude of 45 degrees and a pitching of 15 degrees. The service life of the reactors is 40 years.

A feature of the 22220 project icebreakers is the use of variable draft using ballast tanks. Double-draft ships can operate both in deep water and in shallow waters in river beds, overcoming ice up to 3 meters in thickness.

Comments

[Codett]

The icebreaker was laid down in July 2016. The RITM-200 nuclear reactors were installed in November 2018. Launching took place in St. Petersburg at the Baltic Shipyard on May 25, 2019. The transfer of the icebreaker to FSUE Atomflot was supposed to take place in August 2021, but the deadlines were again postponed, as usual.

[AvesevA]

Well, yes. We were all good. Covid has left Russia alone, there are no sanctions on Russia. Everything is fine, so why did the deadlines shift, hmmmmmm

[Buyan]

Great news, seven feet under the keel and clear sea

[Igor Borisov_2]

The sad thing is that civil shipbuilding, especially ice shipbuilding, is head and shoulders above military shipbuilding in terms of construction rates ...

[bk316]

Unclear. Incomparable things.
Icebreaking yes, but in general civilian, it’s not clear.

Everything is really defined by the 90s.
Here the Admiralty in the 90s retained their capacities, so the Varsovians bake like pancakes. It's the same with Atomflot.
A bunch of shipyards survived only nominally. Here we can't catch up.

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Igor Borisov_2

The sad thing is that civil shipbuilding, especially ice shipbuilding, is head and shoulders above military shipbuilding in terms of construction rates ...

At least something is being built. Why be sad?

[Misha Honest]

Quote: Vasyan1971

At least something is being built.

Do you also want to fight "at least something" ???

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Misha Honest

Do you also want to fight "at least something" ???

What, everything is gone, the tomatoes withered? You have nothing to fight? Give you the Death Star?

[Misha Honest]

Quote: Vasyan1971

Give you the Death Star?

Wait until

Quote: Vasyan1971

You have nothing to fight?

Well, if we, in the Russian Federation, have already sent t-62s, t-64s to the front, then in the navy, apparently, it will soon be necessary to fight with a sailing fleet?

Quote: Vasyan1971

all gone, wilted tomatoes?

I don't have tomatoes. And in your gardens?

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Misha Honest

Wait until

Well, thank God, at least you don’t panic here.

Quote: Misha Honest

Well, if we, in the Russian Federation, have already sent t-62s, t-64s to the front, then in the navy, apparently, it will soon be necessary to fight with a sailing fleet?

Do not worry, everything will be fine.

Quote: Misha Honest

I don't have tomatoes. And in your gardens?

Not. I am urban. Instead of tomatoes, missing polymers could be mentioned. I do not believe that you did not understand something was discussed.

[Misha Honest]

Quote: Vasyan1971

Well, thank God, at least you don’t panic here.

The last time I had a panic was during the Serdyukov reforms. And everything that happens next is already a pattern ...

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Misha Honest

And everything that happens next is already a pattern ...

So it's okay to panic. Not worth it.

[tralflot1832]

We know how to build nuclear icebreakers, no one has such a machine that breaks ice. And what a school of icebreaker fleet specialists we have from captain to sailor !!! We continue the undertakings of the USSR and with dignity. world to the North Pole. And now it has been decommissioned. For me, a sore subject, decommissioned steamships. But most importantly, the nuclear-powered icebreakers brought up a worthy replacement. This means that Atomflot will live and develop.

[bk316]

This means that Atomflot will live and develop. God forbid, I will see the "Leader".

Atomflot will live unambiguously, but the Leader will probably be made in only one copy. RITM-400 too powerful. It is just right for Avik.

[sir.jonn]

Quote: bk316

RITM-400 is too powerful.

For an aircraft carrier, the GEU needs to be smaller than the leader, the aircraft carrier does not need to break a passage in the ice for several tens of meters and at the same time keep the speed acceptable for a trade caravan

[bk316]

For an aircraft carrier, a GEU needs less than a leader,

Yeah, it's over, and that's why Ford has a 2x700MW reactor group (1.4 GW ONE AND FOUR GIGAWATT CHARLES!!!!)
Before writing something, you asked at least a little bit about the topic.
https://wiki5.ru/wiki/A1B_reactor

[VicktorVR]

We did not have time to look back, already the third.

Will there be such an active navigation along the NSR?
The development of the North goes without saying, but what about east-west transit?

[ASM]

Good luck! The main thing is that icebreakers can rely on bases. When commercial caravans go through the Northern Sea Route, it is very important to have port infrastructure, from where a helicopter can take off for a sick crew member, a support icebreaker in difficult ice conditions, and a tugboat in the event of an incident with a ship. You do not need to have full-fledged ports with terminals, but you need to have refueling, repair and medical bases, where an icebreaker can easily launch a large vessel.

[mojohed2012]

The situation is such that God himself ordered to clear the club k containers on the icebreakers, as well as air defense.

[Fizik13]

Well done!
Amers have a hammer, sorry zamvolot, barely sailed across the Pacific Ocean. They only know how to build nuclear barges (aircraft carriers), and one and a half icebreakers dangle on the Arctic Ocean.
And we have a lot of them, and this is just the beginning.

[SovAr238A]

Quote from Fizik13

Well done!
Amers have a hammer, sorry zamvolot, barely sailed across the Pacific Ocean. They only know how to build nuclear barges (aircraft carriers), and one and a half icebreakers dangle on the Arctic Ocean.
And we have a lot of them, and this is just the beginning.

This barge, which you called an aircraft carrier, is technologically more complicated by a couple of orders of magnitude than all nuclear cruisers with destroyers, frigates and corvettes and icebreakers combined.
For a couple of orders...

[zenion]

Behind this boat, you need a lot of eyes so that you don’t look where the pipes are at the bottom. Anything can happen to people like that. Like Chernomyrdin - they thought the best, but it turned out, as always. Large sharks swim in cold waters, which can bite the boat. God save us!

[Gekki66]

Great news! Light ice and 7 feet under keel.
All icebreakers are dual-purpose ships, the hull is reinforced, it is possible to install both artillery and air defense systems. Yes, and for CLUBS in such a colossus, KMK, a place should be found.