The Ex-Soviet Union awards of October Revolution nuclear ice breaker ARKTIKA. The head vessel Russian ARKTIKA class nuclear powered icebreaker.
Builder: Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad, USSR.
The project: 10520
Register number: 712315
Number ИМО: 7429061
Radio call sign: UCKH
It is put: on July, 3rd 1971
It is floated: on December, 26th 1972
It is accepted in operation: on April, 25th 1975
Out of service: 2008.

Displacement: 23 460 tons
Length: 148 m
Draught: 11 m
Width: 30 m
Power-plant: 2 nuclear reactors 75 000 in h.p.
Speed: 20 - 20.8 knots
Crew: 115-150 peoples
Flag: USSR, 1991 - Russia
The port of registry: Murmansk, Murmansk Shipping Cpmpany (MSCO)
Operator: Atomflot
Captains:
Kuchiev Yury Sergeevich (with 1971 on 1980)
Golohvastov Vasily Aleksandrovich (with 1980)
Lamehov Anatoly Alekseevich
Ulitin Grigory Alekseevich
Barinov Alexander Nikolaevich
Arutyunyan Vladimir Grachavich (on the present)

Sisterships:
SIBIR (Built in 1977)
ROSSIYA (Built in 1985)
SOVETSKIY SOYUZ (Built in 1990)
YAMAL (Built in 1993)
50 LET POBEDY (Built in 1993, commissioned in March 12, 2007. Maiden voyage: 2007). The ice breaker 50 LET POBEDY represents the modernized project of the second series of nuclear ice breakers of type ARKTIKA. The project 10521, is the modernized project 10520.

USSR. On November, 10th, 1982 Leonid Ilich Brezhnev has died. According to the decision of the Central Committee of the CPSU it has been decided to immortalize L.I.Brezhnev's memory. There is a version that because of a typing error in the decision the name has been appropriated to not under construction ice breaker, and operating, and during the period since 1982 and till 1986 ice breaker ARKTIKA bore a name LEONID BREZHNEV, instead of the under construction ice breaker which has been named subsequently SOVETSKIY SOYUZ.