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 ;