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The keel-laying ceremony of the third ("second serial") Project 22220 icebreaker was held on 25 July 2016 shortly after the partially-assembled hull of Sibir had been moved down the slipway for final hull assembly. [50] [51] The vessel was launched on 27 May 2019 as Ural (Russian: Урал; after the Ural Mountains). [52]
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 ...
On 20 July 2020, during the keel laying ceremony, the names of the first two ships were officially revealed. The ships were named Ivan Rogov and Mitrofan Moskalenko, the same as two already decommissioned Ivan Rogov-class vessels. [17]
The U.S. and several other world leaders boycotted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s swearing-in ceremony for his fifth term Tuesday, though the ceremony did draw a few famous faces. Putin was ...
Putin offered a grandiose vision of Western crimes that seemed to ignore a number of inconvenient facts, perhaps foremost among them that the very ceremony over which he was presiding involved the ...
Russian citizens poured dye into ballot boxes, lit explosives and attempted arson in sporadic acts of protest during a presidential election guaranteed to deliver President Vladimir Putin his ...
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 ...
The construction of the icebreaker, named Rossiya, began with steel cutting ceremony on 6 July 2020 [66] and the keel was laid on 5 July 2021. [67] As of January 2025 [update] , the construction of the icebreaker is ongoing but the project has suffered from delays, setbacks and budget overruns, [ 68 ] and instead of its planned 2027 delivery ...