MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to Golovinskiy, the ice-breaker was decommissioned in 2006, however it will be able to operate for 20 more years after repairs.
"We appealed to the defense minister. Both the [Rosatom's] director general [Sergey Kirienko] and the chairman of the Supervisory Board [Boris Gryzlov] offered to consider the possibility of creating a floating command post in the Arctic region based on the atomic ice-breaker, the Sovetskiy Soyuz," Golovinskiy said at the Russian Geographic Society headquarters.
The Sovetskiy Soyuz (Soviet Union) ice-breaker's repairs are expected to be completed in 2016.
