Icebreaking assistance in the Gulf of Finland is being rendered by 11 icebreakers. According to the data provided by the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency as of February 3, 2014, 7 icebreakers operate at Big Port St. Petersburg (Semen Dezhnev, Mudyug, Yury Lisyansky, Ivan Kruzenshtern, Kapitan Plakhin, Kapitan Nikolayev, Karu ), 2 icebreakers – at ports of Vyborg and Vysotsk (Saint-Petersburg and Kapitan Izmailov,) Kapitan Zarubin at Ust-Luga and Moskva at Primorsk.
3 icebreakers are in reserve (Kapitan Sorokin, Tor, Yermak).
During this winter navigation icebreaking assistance of has covered 149 vessels.
