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This document was submitted by Rosatom.
This Resolution is based on Presidential decision.
This resolution provides for a budget investment in the construction of two standard universal nuclear-powered icebreakers between 2014 and 2020 and funding distribution by year. It establishes the state customer and the customer (contractor) regarding the construction of nuclear-powered icebreakers.
Currently, five nuclear icebreakers are operating on the Northern Sea Route. Due to expiring service lives, only one of these ships, the icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory), will be in service by the beginning of 2021. The Taimyr and Vaigach shallow-draft nuclear icebreakers will be decommissioned in 2017.
To replace the nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet in a timely manner, beginning in 2017, and to ensure unfailing icebreaker assistance on the Northern Sea Route and the year-round transport of hydrocarbon loads from the Yamal Peninsula (based on the Plan for the Development of Liquefied Natural Gas Production on the Yamal Peninsula approved by Government Directive No 1713-r of October 11, 2010), it is necessary to build and commission three universal nuclear-powered icebreakers by 2021, including the lead icebreaker in 2017 at the latest, and the first and second icebreakers in the class in 2019 and 2020, respectively. The decision to build the lead icebreaker was taken by the Russian Government (Government Resolution No 660 of June 29, 2012).
The total estimated budget investment in the construction of two standard nuclear-powered icebreakers in the class for delivery between 2014 and 2020 is 86.1 billion roubles, based on price index estimates for those respective years. The estimated cost for construction of the first standard universal nuclear-powered icebreaker is 42 billion roubles, of the second one - 44.1 billion roubles.
According to the Presidential decision on strengthening Russian position in the Arctic and based on the special role of the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet, the Russian Government and the federal executive bodies have been instructed to expand the Russian icebreaker fleet in order to prevent a reduction in the number of ships in connection with the planned retirement of the aging ships in the fleet.
When this resolution comes into effect, three icebreakers (one lead icebreaker and two standard universal nuclear-powered ones) will be commissioned by the end of 2020.