Decommissioned
After 33 years of reliable icebreaking, being the first civilian nuclear surface ship to reach the North Pole in 1977, spend more than a year at sea without making port in 2000, and covering more than a million Nautical miles by 2005, the Arktika was retired in October 2008. It is docked at Atomflot, the nuclear base and dock in Murmansk, 1 ½ km (0.9 miles) away from the main docks, where it will remain until policies can be drawn up to dismantle it. In the meantime, it is a subject of important research, focused mainly on how to further extend the service life of the other Arktika class icebreakers.
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