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Project 22220, also known through the Russian type size series designation LK-60Ya, [note 1] is a series of Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers.The lead ship of the class, Arktika, was delivered in 2020 and surpassed the preceding Soviet-built series of nuclear-powered icebreakers as the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the world.
Keel laying is one of the four specially celebrated events in a ship's life; the others are launching, commissioning, and decommissioning. Earlier, the event recognized as the keel laying was the initial placement of the central timber making up the backbone of a vessel, called the keel. As steel ships replaced wooden ones, the central timber ...
The keel of the sixth Project 22220 icebreaker was laid on 26 January 2024. [3] The vessel was initially to be named Kamchatka (Russian: Камчатка) after the Kamchatka Peninsula, [17] but in November 2023 it was announced that instead it would be named Leningrad (Russian: Ленинград) to commemorate the Siege of Leningrad. [18]
Leningrad (Russian: Ленинград) has been the name of the following icebreakers: Leningrad (1959 icebreaker) , a Soviet and later Russian diesel-electric icebreaker in service in 1961–1993 Leningrad (2028 icebreaker) , a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker under construction
The keel of the second Project 22220 icebreaker was laid on 26 May 2015. [2] After the launching of Arktika in June and in order to make way for the keel laying of the third icebreaker, [ 24 ] the partially-assembled hull weighing about 3,500 tonnes (3,400 long tons) was moved about 125 metres (410 ft) along the slipway to the position where ...
[1] [2] The coins are not normally fixed in place and are often retrieved when the ship sails out of the dry-dock, [3] (although they are sometimes welded to the keel). [4] The mast stepping ceremony is a similar event which occurs towards the end of a ship's construction, and involves the placing of coins underneath the mast of a ship. In ...
On 19 May 2012, Irish Naval Service Flag Office Commodore Mark Mellett (subsequently Rear Admiral, DCOS Sp) attended the traditional keel-laying ceremony for the first of the 90 meter OPVs. While modular construction methods don't strictly involve keel -laying, the term is still considered an important milestone, as it signals the first stage ...
That popularity faded somewhat after 1945, but the work is still regarded as a major musical testament to the 27 million Soviet people who lost their lives in World War II, and it is often played at Leningrad Cemetery, where half a million victims of the 900-day Siege of Leningrad are buried.