OREANDA-NEWS   Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the nuclear icebreakers under construction in Russia, including the icebreaker Leader, which has no analogues in the world.

Putin on Friday met with students and graduates of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) shortly before the celebration of Russian students.

"As you probably know perfectly well, we have 34 diesel icebreakers, 8 operational nuclear icebreakers, two - Chukotka and Leningrad - are being actively built, Stalingrad has been laid, is being laid, and two more are in our project. 

Another 150 megawatts are being built in the Far East, at the Zvezda shipyard, and the nuclear icebreaker Leader has never been built in the world," Putin said at a meeting with students.

He noted that construction is proceeding according to schedule, and the icebreaker will be received by 2030."

"Colitis is generally ice, without restrictions, several meters. That's the kind of power that no country in the world has today. And we are stepping up this work, of course," Putin concluded.