Viktor Chernomyrdin (Russian: Виктор Черномырдин), also known through her Russian design number Project 22600 or type size series designation LK-25, [note 1] is a Russian icebreaker. Launched at Baltic Shipyard and outfitted at Admiralty Shipyard in Saint Petersburg, she is the largest and most powerful diesel-electric icebreaker built in Russia.

Project 22600 LK-25 Viktor Chernomyrdin diesel icebreaker. Russia is constructing the world’s most powerful diesel-engined icebreaker. The LK-25 (project 22600) will be 146,8 meters long and a crew of 38. ... Because of this, the ship had to be altered already "in metal", which took a lot of time and energy. At the end of 2013, the ...

Jan 26, 2018 · The vessel, the first of the country’s new class diesel-engined icebreakers (Project 22600), is due to be ready for sailing in the course of late fall 2018. Time pressure is mounting on the shipbuilders at the Baltic Yard in St.Petersburg.

Rosmorport's Viktor Chernomyrdin itinerary program offers Russian Arctic expedition cruises. This Project 22600 vessel is the world's biggest diesel-powered icebreaker. Only Russia's nuclear-powered icebreakers are bigger in size.

Sep 19, 2019 · The Viktor Chernomyrdin is Russia’s first vessel of project 22600 (LK-25). It is not clear whether more LK-25 icebreakers will be built. But Rosmorport will in any case significantly boost its icebreaking capacities. By 2024, another nine …

May 5, 2022 · The vessel is designed for regular icebreaking escorts in up to two meter thick sea-ice, and can do other operations in three meter thick ice, state ship operator Rosmorport informs.

Jan 1, 2021 · The ship was initially expected to enter service in the Gulf of Finland in December 2015 and would be named after Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938–2010) the founder and first chairman of Gazprom. In November 2014, it was reported that the construction of the icebreaker had been suspended already in December 2013 due to problems with the design and ...

The Russian Navy Project 22600 represents a new class of diesel-powered icebreaker ship intended to support operations in the Arctic waters. The Project 22600 has a full load displacement of 22,000 tons and is the biggest and one of the most powerful of its class excluding nuclear-powered icebreakers.

Jan 17, 2021 · Of these, the 25-megawatt line icebreakers (LK-25) were intended to escort merchant ships and lead convoys through freezing seas, and operate as auxiliary ships in complex convoys along the Northern Sea Route.

Oct 9, 2019 · United Shipbuilding Corporation's (USC) Admiralty Shipyard has begun conducting factory and acceptance trials of the Project 22600 icebreaker Viktor Chernomyrdin. The trials are to be conducted over a span of 20 days in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea.