Icebreaking assistance in the Gulf of Finland is being rendered by 8 icebreakers. According to the data provided by the Federal Marine and River Transport Agency as of February 10, 2014, 4 icebreakers operate at Big Port St. Petersburg (Semen Dezhnev, Mudyug, Yury Lisyansky and Kapitan Nikolayev), 2 icebreakers – at ports of Vyborg and Vysotsk (Moskva and Kapitan Izmailov,) Kapitan Zarubin at Ust-Luga and nuclear icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy at Primorsk.
Icebreakers Karu, Ivan Kruzenshtern, Kapitan Sorokin and Saint-Petersburg are ready to join the operations, 3 icebreakers are in reserve (Kapitan Plakhin, Tor, Yermak).
During this winter navigation icebreaking assistance of has covered 300 vessels.