FSUE Krylov State Research Center has employed unique solutions when designing new icebreakers, IAA PortNews correspondent cites Valery Belyashov, Chief Designer, KSRC, as saying at Offshore Marintec Russia. According to the report of Valery Belyashov, Krylov Center has performed unique research and model tests of icebreakers in respect of their draught in shallow waters, optimal shape of a bow for rolling minimization, shape of screws, etc.
The solutions offered by KSRC were approved by Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.
Baltiysky Zavod – Sudostrojenije (United Shipbuilding Corporation) is building three 60MW icebreakers of project 22220. RS class ships ordered by Rosatom Corporation will be the world’s largest and most powerful icebreakers.
The Arktika, lead icebreaker of Project 22220 was laid down at Baltiysky Zavod in November 2013 and launched on June 16, 2016. The Sibir, first serial icebreaker of the Project, was laid down on May 26, 2015. The Ural, the second serial 60MW icebreaker of project 22220, was laid down on July 25, 2016.
The Krylov State Research Centre is one of the world’s major ship research & design centres established in 1894. Over its century-long efforts in the field of innovative R&Ds for the benefit of national shipbuilding, in the best interests of the country’s defence and economic development, the Krylov Centre has accumulated the wealth of unique expertise in development of naval ships, commercial vessels and offshore structures. The Krylov Centre responsibilities cover the full scope of ship qualities including seaworthiness, strength, powering, acoustics, electromagnetic signatures, nuclear & radiation safety, definition of ship concepts meeting the combination of the above requirements.