There are three nuclear icebreakers and two submarines waiting out there.

"It's one of the nuclear icebreakers," she said, pointing over the side of the Gagarin through the snow.

Besides its six nuclear icebreakers, Russia also has 19 diesel polar icebreakers.

Vladimir Putin said in 2010, Russia builds at least three nuclear icebreakers of the new generation in the period from 2012 to 2020.

Now they say there has been secret dumping of waste from the submarines and nuclear icebreakers.

In 2004, he got the aid of a Russian nuclear icebreaker Vaigach.

Russia has eight nuclear icebreakers in service or building.

The newest and largest nuclear icebreaker at the time was ready for the Arctic.

The extension cost only $4 million dollars, while a new nuclear icebreaker would be $30-50 million, and proved to be a successful endeavor.

The conference concluded thus that the lifetimes of Russian nuclear icebreakers could be successfully extended to 175,000 hrs, and possibly more.