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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.
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]
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 coin ceremony is an event which takes place at the keel laying, in the early stages of a ship's construction.In it, the shipbuilders place one or two coins under the keel block of the new ship to bless the ship and as a symbol of good fortune.
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 ...
Ural under construction at Baltic Shipyard in July 2019 with another Project 22220 icebreaker in the background. The tender for construction of two additional Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreakers, referred to as the first and second serial vessels of the project, was announced at the keel laying ceremony of the lead ship Arktika on 5 November 2013. [6]
The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (Russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as the Petrograd Conservatory and Leningrad Conservatory) is a school of music in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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.