“Russia’s Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet” series

In the catalogue: collector coins — 4.

Coins with the new-generation nuclear icebreakers Ural and Sibir, each with silver 3 roubles and gold 200 roubles.

Nuclear icebreakers escort ships along the Northern Sea Route, where conventional icebreakers cannot cope with thick ice. The world’s first nuclear icebreaker was the Lenin, launched in Leningrad in 1957.