The need for construction of specialized ships to clear the path in the ice appeared in the mid-18th century. The first icebreaker was a wheeled steamer that cleared ice in the harbor of Philadelphia.

One of Moscow's nuclear icebreakers has sustained significant damage after colliding with a cargo ship in the Kara Sea.

President Donald Trump is continuing his first-term focus on building a big, new American icebreaker fleet. Days after his ...

Yakutia is one of the new universal nuclear icebreakers of project 22220. These vessels are the largest and most powerful icebreakers in the world. Under the project, which has been implemented ...

A Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker damaged in a collision five days ago in Arctic waters will be repaired during normal ...

Russia already has the world's only fleet of nuclear powered icebreakers but under president Vladimir Putin the objective is that its country's naval fleet, both surface and submersibles ...

The Chukotka-based Akademik Lomonosov has generated over one billion kWh of electricity The worlds only operational floating ...

Bloodied by the war in Ukraine and weighed down by a shipbuilding industry that never really recovered from its post-Cold War ...