Another Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreaker, Ural, will be laid down at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg in November 2016, Alexander Ryzhkov, Director General and Chief Designer at Iceberg Central Design Bureau, announced at the NDExpo-2016  forum.

"The construction of the nuclear icebreaker will begin next November," Ryzhkov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.

It was previously reported that the Ural's keel will be laid down in September 2016.

Project 22220 icebreakers will become the biggest and most powerful in the world. Each ship will have an overall length of 173.3 m, breadth of 34 m, and a displacement of 33,500 tons. The icebreakers will enable commercial ship convoys to operate in arctic waters by breaking ice up to 3 meters thick. The new vessels will allow transportation of hydrocarbons from oil and gas fields in the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas and the Kara Sea shelf to the Asia-Pacific markets.

Currently, the main nuclear-powered icebreaker of Project 22220, Arktika, is under construction at the Baltic Shipyard. In May 2014, the shipyard closed a deal with state corporation Rosatom to build two more vessels under the project, Sibir and Ural. The total cost of the project is 84.4 bn rubles.