OVERVIEW: The ARKTIKA class icebreaker is a nuclear-powered icebreaker.

DETAILS:   These are the world's most powerful icebreakers.  The lead ship, Arktika, was the first surface ship to reach the geographic North Pole, arriving there on 17 August 1977.

 

NOTES: Displacement: 25,000 tons full load
       Speed: 21 knts
       Range: 5 years
       Complement: 
       In Commission: 1975 
       Completed: 3 	  

SOURCES: Norman Polmar, "Guide to the Soviet Navy, 3rd ed. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1983), 319 ; 
