“August — September of next year,” he answers the question about the timing of laying the new nuclear icebreaker RIA Novosti.

Earlier, the Nevsky Novosti newspaper, citing the press service of Rosmorrechflot, reported that by the end of 2019, about 100 crew members of the Arctic 22220-type nuclear-powered icebreakers would be trained.

At the end of May, the Ministry of Industry and Trade announced that the third Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker Ural, project 22220, would be delivered to the customer in August 2022.