ST. PETERSBURG, November 21. /TASS/. The Iceberg Central Design Bureau finished works on a technical project to design a vessel to serve new-generation nuclear icebreakers, the Bureau’s Director General Alexander Ryzhkov told TASS on Wednesday.
"We have finished design of a technical part for project 22770 nuclear technology service vessel," he said. "All works are done, all documents are now with the Ministry of Industry and Trade."
The project’s next stage would be to receive all necessary licenses and to choose the shipbuilder, he continued. "We hope, this stage would not take long," the director said.
The new vessel of nuclear technical service is necessary for work of modern universal icebreakers, as similar vessels of the previous generation cannot service the newest universal icebreakers of project 22220, which the Baltic Shipyard is making now, and the super mighty Lider icebreakers. The Baltic Shipyard’s Director General Alexei Kadilov told TASS earlier it would be necessary to begin building such a vessel no later than in 2020, so that it could begin working in 2023.
"This vessel is technologically complicated, it is big - its deadweight tonnage is 20,000 tonnes… It will be used to service icebreakers of the earlier projects and the new icebreakers, which the Baltic Shipyard is building now… We have designed a vessel 40-50 years ahead of time," the design bureau’s director said.
The Iceberg Central Design Bureau was founded in 1947. The projects, designed there, include the first nuclear icebreaker Lenin, icebreakers Yamal, 50 Let Pobedy, the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power unit, and other civil and military vessels.