Watch: Amazing Time-Lapse Shows the World’s Biggest Nuclear Icebreakers

Updated: April 21, 2023 (Originally published January 17, 2020)

Check out this mesmerizing time-lapse showing the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker Yamal conducting Arctic operations along the Northern Sea Route. The video was released by the Russian-based media company TimeLab which had a film crew spend a week filming aboard the icebreaker in March 2019.

Also shown in the video is Russia’s first Arktika-class icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy, translated as 50 Years of Victory. The two icebreakers are the only two Arktika-class icebreakers still in service and recognized as the largest and most powerful icebreakers in the world.

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