Russia may have the icebreakers, but lack docking facilities in the northern regions:
The nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika was placed in dock at the Kronstadt Marine Plant outside St. Petersburg on July 4. Photo: United Shipbuilding Corporation
In 2021, Rosatomflot, the operator of the nuclear icebreaker fleet, signed a $68 million contract with Turkish Kuzey Star Shipyard to built a new dock big enough to serve the new class of icebreakers. The dock, which has a lifting capacity of 30,000 tons, was completed last fall and towed out via the Bosphorus Strait to the Mediterranean.
When Russia’s newest icebreaker, the Yakutiya, arrived to Murmansk in April, Rosatomflot director Yakov Antonov informed that the new floating repair dock would arrive to the service base on the outskirts of Murmansk in the second half of 2025.sanction the tug .statement in May.
Source: Nuclear icebreaker had to sail all to St. Petersburg for basic hull work as Russia's lacks northern dock
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