Securing the seas, making breakthroughs for trade: Russias unique nuclear icebreaker fleet

️ Securing the seas, making breakthroughs for trade: Russia’s unique nuclear icebreaker fleet December 3 is Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet Day, the professional holiday of the operators of Russia’s unique-in-the-world heavy nuclear-powered icebreaking vessels. ? Russia’s uncontested supremacy in the frozen seas began on December 3, 1959 with the commissioning of the Lenin nuclear icebreaker – a symbol of the nation’s technological and scientific primacy in the north. ️ 65 years on, Russia has remained faithful to these Arctic ambitions, being the only country on Earth operating a sizable detachment of nuclear-powered icebreakers – seven today and four more (the Yakutia, the Chukotka, the Leningrad and Stalingrad) on the way. That’s on top of Russia’s fleet of 34 diesel-powered icebreakers. Together, the country has more icebreakers than the rest of the world combined. And it certainly needs them, given its ambitious plans to forge a major new Europe-Asia trade route known as the Norther... Source: Geopolitics Live