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Purga class icebreaker

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Built
  
2007–present day

Completed
  
2

In commission
  
2009–present day

Purga-class icebreaker

Builders
  
Almaz shipbuilding company

Operators
  
Russian Navy/Russian Coast Guard

Preceded by
  
Ivan Susanin class icebreaker

The Purga class are a group of icebreaker Patrol ships operated by the Russian Coast Guard. The Project 22120 patrol ship Purga (en,code "blizzard") is a new generation border patrol vessel. It was built as a big revenue cutter. Vessel has ice strengthening, providing independent navigation in a rarefied one-year ice thickness up to 0.6 m in winter and spring to navigate and up to 0.8 m thick in summer and autumn navigation.

References

Purga-class icebreaker Wikipedia