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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, March 31 (Xinhua) — Russia is building three nuclear-powered icebreakers and hopes to continue the project to build a railway section of the North-South International Transport Corridor (ISTC) in Iran. Russian Transport Minister Andrei Nikitin announced this in a media interview on Tuesday ahead of the International Transport and Logistics Forum in St. Petersburg, scheduled for April 1-3.
"Three nuclear-powered icebreakers are currently under construction: Chukotka will be commissioned in 2026, Leningrad in 2028, and Stalingrad in 2030. By 2030, the number of nuclear-powered icebreakers on the Northern Sea Route should reach 11, and by 2035, 18," said A. Nikitin.
In late January, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia was stepping up efforts to develop its icebreaker fleet. Later, Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade Minister Anton Alikhanov noted that the country's icebreaker fleet continues to expand: the third serial nuclear-powered icebreaker, the Yakutia, was delivered in 2025, and the fourth and fifth icebreakers of this class (the Chukotka and Leningrad) are currently under construction, with the sixth, the Stalingrad, already laid down.
The Russian Minister of Transport also stated that Russia expects to continue the project to build the North-South International Transport Corridor (ITC) railway section in Iran as the situation normalizes.
He noted that there is a very high level of readiness there.
"We, for our part, are ready to begin work; we have everything we need. We expect that as the situation normalizes, we will continue this work," added A. Nikitin.
The North-South International Transport Corridor (ITC) is a 7,200-kilometer multimodal route from St. Petersburg to the Indian port of Mumbai. In May 2023, Russia and Iran signed documents to complete the corridor's final railway section, the Rasht-Astara section in Iran.
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