Two Russian ships collided in the Kara Sea: nuclear icebreakers and a dry load (video)
"On the night of January 26 in the Kara Sea in the harsh conditions of the Arctic, making a fraction (liberation of the ice -stuck in the crisis - ed. . At the same time, the video that appeared on social networks shows how the ice floe crashes into board the sohove, which is stuck in the ice. As a result, the nuclear icebreakers of "50 years of victory" received damage to the lining of the edge of the left board. The photo shows a huge hole in the body.
At the same time, official Rosmi reports that the icebreaker "regularly continues to work in the waters of the Northern Maritime Road. " The state of the Yamal Krechet drying is unknown. The icebreakers of "50 years of victory" are Russian atomic icebreakers. It was built at the Baltic Plant (St. Petersburg). It was laid in 1989, but commissioned only in 2007 due to a long simple after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Prior to the commissioning of new Atomic icebreakers, Arctic class of 2020, 50 years of victory, was the largest atomic icebreaker in the world. On April 11, the icebreaker came to the permanent port of Murmansk. Its main task is to accompany dry loads and tankers with the Arctic seas. He is also "focused on the execution of Arctic cruises, as a rule, to the North Pole with a visit to the reserved archipelago of Franz Josip Earth.
" Russia has begun to send the non -oil tankers and cargo vessels in the north sea, often violating the Polar Code and its own rules of Arctic navigation. We will remind, only on December 15 the Russian media reported that near the Kerch Strait began to sink two tankers of the Russian Federation "Volgoneft-212" and "Volgoneft-239".