You missed a few things: One of the biggest reasons for making a nuclear icebreaker, the waste reactor heat is used to heat the hull in order to melt ice, and produce super heated sea water that is also used to melt ice. Also the Soviets and later Russians use their Ice Breakers to pull the cargo ships they are escorting with large steel cables, so their propulsion engines are not needed during the escort...

@M33f3r

9 ай бұрын

Awesome

I'm always fascinated by the many obscure words you can pronounce and the many common ones you cant

@Rdburnzy

Жыл бұрын

It means he learns most new words from reading, not listening.

@thelitmango6333

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was about to say I use to be the same until I got more social, as long as someone understand what you're saying that's what matters.

@purplefood1

10 ай бұрын

​@@thelitmango6333that's not untrue but when you don't use the words you actually mean you open yourself up to a lot more potential interpretation or confusion. There's nothing wrong with getting things wrong but if you aren't accurate with your words you can't get annoyed when people don't understand what you meant

"It was rad". I see what you did there. I'll rem-ember this.

Just saw one of these giants in St.Petersburg this summer. Just chilling on the bank and this beast silently coasts towards me. That was quite the sight. Fun fact: there was a fisherman in a small inflatable boat. The icebreaker passed very close to him, but the old man seemed to not even notice.

@conzmoleman

Жыл бұрын

Depressing city name. It should still be Leningrad.

@honkhonk8009

Жыл бұрын

@@conzmoleman Excellent name. Lenin is a good guy, but the Soviet Unions constant Lennin worshipping/dickriding and communism is abhorrent.

@thepinusnigra

Жыл бұрын

​@@conzmoleman As St.Petersburg citizen I totally agree with you. At least oblast name remained the same.

@conzmoleman

Жыл бұрын

@@thepinusnigra I’ve heard a lot of residents just call it “Petrograd”. Is this true?

@thepinusnigra

Жыл бұрын

@@conzmoleman Nah, it's most uncommon one. Older generations still using Leningrad name(also this name is being used as official when city is celebrating day of breakthrough the blockade) , though when it comes to verbal, unofficial talks everyone calls the city as Piter(with focus on first vowel), due how long official name is(without binding to the era).

I started watching this channel for chip fab news, but it has rapidly become one of my favourite documentary channels - keep up the good work! 👍

I just want to say how much I enjoy your work, and just how amazing your videos are. You continue to produce some of the most unique and impressively made mini documentaries on topics rarely even covered. The research involved in making such high quality videos on topics like this must be a challenge, especially getting so detailed in your research. Just want to thank you for your amazing and fascinating videos. You have certainly worked damn hard, and have an amazing talent for covering topics with a sensitivity that is very unique and refreshing. The way you bring in the political, cultural, and historical context of each topic you cover is a talent that very few have. The author and KZreadr Dan Davis is the only one else that I know who makes videos with your level of deep topical sensitivity, and ability to bring a deeper context to whatever you are making a video about. Keep up the amazing work, always learn something completely new! Thanks again!

@marcyanus1430

Жыл бұрын

i would have liked this comment but.. nice.

@Kenny-yl9pc

Жыл бұрын

Most of the information, if not all, can be sourced easily online, for example through Wikipedia. (I know Wikipedia is not the best source, especially in regard to political topics. What I detest is the censoring and most importantly how it is politicized and used for discrediting people by the means of character assassinations when it comes to controversial people or topics, but there are good articles, especially hard science is for the most part reliable, even though they are trying to manipulate/infringe even on them). It is not really difficult to research such topics nowadays. The digital age we are living in makes it very easy to get information, you can argue it is a disadvantage because of information overflow, but the hard part is to find the right information, to acquire the skill in order to determine which sources and information are reliable and trustworthy, and to put them in the right context, in my view, that is the hardest part of research in general. What I give him credit for is, that he puts all the information into a coherent and enjoyable story, furthermore his "story telling"/speech skill makes it even better. I completely agree with you, regarding his coverage of unique/niche topics that one rarely sees in other channels, that shows how much effort and thought he puts into his project, to really deliver quality for his audience, for which I salute him.

Amazed at the pace of output on this channel. The depth of research and interesting topics is impressive.

Taymyr class icebreakers weren't really intended as newer replacement for old icebreakers. It was supposed to service in a different niche, such as towing ships/break ice into Siberian rivers, where bigger ships like Lenin or Arktika was impossible to use.

Your videos are always a delight. Assorted interesting topics, presented in some depth. Thank you!

I've been fascinated with the Akademik Lomonosov and life in Pevek where it is docked. It makes both electricity and hot water. Even steam baths are connected to it.

Bow is pronounced bao.

@idzkk

Жыл бұрын

🐕‍🦺 bow bow

@fastlanenigeria

Жыл бұрын

@@idzkk lil one

@JoeOvercoat

Жыл бұрын

I’m gonna mess with every sailor i know about how cute their “bow” is. Then double down and manage to pronounce ‘aft’ as…well, you know. ;)

@WANHandler

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeOvercoat You’ll give them aneurisms

@markalexmclennan

Жыл бұрын

English is a really dumb language.

I've always been fascinated by the Arktika class breakers, ever since I heard about them from a game called Cryostaisis. Good to see a neat lil overview on em.

@purplefood1

10 ай бұрын

Fascinating game tbf

There are lots of educational channels on YT. I subbed the best of them over the years, skipped the self-praising ones, never payed for any. Yours may be the first worth spending some, your educational style is crystal-clear and, whilst delivered pan dry, keeps enough humour in to sugar coat the in depth analysis. Great content, is there a team behind it, or just one Dude ? Keep up the work, you are great at it. Way better than the very most.

Life is simple. Asianometry uploads. I listen.

This video's timing is a piece of art. Keep on the great work. All the success!

fun fact: the Bow of a ship is pronounced like ' to take a bow' with the same 'ow' sound as Hour.

@AndyRRR0791

Жыл бұрын

...or as in "bough" of a tree which is why it's spelled differently

@worldoftancraft

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: the spelling does not indicate that to me at all

@LongTran-em6hc

Жыл бұрын

As an Asian who have no idea how 'ow' in Hour and 'to take a bow' are pronounced, I appreciate this comment.

@AndyRRR0791

Жыл бұрын

@@worldoftancraft I know. That's 'cause it's spelled I-R-O-N-Y...

@worldoftancraft

Жыл бұрын

@@AndyRRR0791 no, it's spelled "we can't decide for centuries who we are. Either antique yet modern Greeks, either antique yet modern Latins, or French, or somewhat Germans or Norsemen". There you are

less than 10 seconds in the video and you are already making radiation jokes 😂 this is why I love your videos!

I live in the West and when my son mentioned that USSR had built ice breakers with nuclear reactors on board, the school science teacher said that it's impossible. It's amazing what a socialist country can achieve : in 1945 third of the country was just ruins, in 1961 nuclear powered ice breakers, first satellite and first man in space.

@elizabethnilsson1815

9 ай бұрын

and all DENYED by you school teacher and still yet

Imagine you chilling in borderless arctic snow desert, with screaming winds and meters and meters of rock solid ice under feet, casually waiting when this ship become to get you and your team aboard. So surreal :)

keep up what you do. You are helping the humanity. I like how your delivery skills has improved since the first video.

Great video , Keep up the good work . Would love to see a report about electronics industries in Kyrgyzstan , Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan , etc.. Perhaps one report to cover them all.

@Redfvvg

Жыл бұрын

There is no electronics there. In Soviet times, parts of a very low degree of integration may have been produced there. All microelectronics was concentrated in the Moscow region, and in Minsk.

@worldoftancraft

Жыл бұрын

One of those glorious, free, and liberated Na-shi-ons cannot even finish the hydroelectric plant, dam of which is already build before their independence.

Great video - I especially appreciated the mentioning of the Finnish ice breaker(s).

@worldoftancraft

Жыл бұрын

Krasavica naša Suomi

@westrim

Жыл бұрын

Finnish him!

you always pick interesting topics, thx :)

4:19 Woah! Didn’t expect to see my university’s research reactor pop up in a YT video. The reactor doesn’t produce any usable energy, by the way, only heat. The mechanism shown above the water line is used to move the rods around, although that doesn’t happen often.

If Soviet take economy seriously then we had most technologically advanced power . Space tech is pioneered by Soviet but people are blind to their achievements.

@topkitena

6 ай бұрын

Doesn't suit capitalist western propaganda!

From calculators to icebreakers, chips to watches, this channel has it all!

you should have a million subs, your educational videos are very informative and well put together, nothing fancy just facts. thanks for sharing your knowledge.

It would be interesting if you did a video on the progression of transistor designs in microprocessors throughout time. Especially with the industry on the verge of switching to ribbon fets, it would be a very relevant video topic for this moment in time.

I wasn't expecting a video about the 50 years of victory from you.

@toms5996

Жыл бұрын

Victory? Built in Finland.

@jsoderba

Жыл бұрын

@@toms5996 No, the 50 Years of Victory was one of the older Arktika class built at the Baltic Yards in Leningrad/St. Petersburg. The USSR continued to build Arktika-class icebreakers throughout the 1980s. Second-to-last Yamal was commissioned in 1992 and as the name implies the 50 Years of Victory was supposed to be done by 1995, the 50th anniversary of Germany's surrender in 1945. I guess the decision to continue building Arktikas as well as ordering the Taymyr class from Wärtsilä in parallell was made because of the increasing importance of Arctic oil, gas and minerals to the struggling Soviet economy.

@toms5996

Жыл бұрын

@@jsoderba Thanks for the info. So many were built in Finland I lost count and apparently some were built in the USSR.

Bow is pronounced like the gesture, not the weapon.

Very interesting, thank you 👍👍

Great video. Another earlier notable ice-breaker was the one the soviet-union (or maybe tsarist Russia back then) used on lake Baikal, which was a unique ice breaker-train ferry ship for hauling the trans siberia express across the lake.

Great and informative video.

Great video, thanks !

Love puns. "It was rad", "crushing impact"... LOL well done.

Incredible video as always. Just keep at it, and you will have well over a million subs. Perhaps even sooner than you realize.

3:03 Finnish person here. "Urho" is "Hero" in Finnish.

Made me laugh within 10 seconds. Great job.

Interesting that recently a Finland shipyard couldn’t get regulatory clearance to build a diesel icebreaker for a mining concern.

@NoNameAtAll2

Жыл бұрын

what does regulatory clearance mean? they failed to provide documentation? or failed ecology limits?

@nobodynoone2500

Жыл бұрын

@@NoNameAtAll2 There are many more reguylations than that, but I too am curious.

@williamlloyd3769

Жыл бұрын

@@NoNameAtAll2 - To clarify, after Russia invaded Ukraine, the government of Finland / EU enacted regulations that prevent the Finish shipyard from fulfilling the icebreaker contract for the Russian oil company.

@zigfisher6592

Жыл бұрын

@@williamlloyd3769 Good.

Very interesting, thank you!

Thank you and Much Love from the Philippines.

Nuclear icebreakers are rad and they have a crushing impact. I like these puns my dude.

Video is a great ice breaker on the subject.

Interestingly, more than half of the world’s icebreakers have been manufactured in Finland. In addition to having manufactured them decades ago for the Soviet Union, Finland needs them itself, as all Finnish ports are subject to freezing in winter. Most countries that have freezing ports use Finnish icebreakers, but the USA, having bought none, is one of the exceptions. The operators there would like to buy them, as they are technologically advanced, but the USA classifies icebreakers as war ships (presumably just to protect the domestic industry), which makes importing them hard.

Anyone who lives in the arctic knows that the hysteria around global warming is overblown.

@jakekaywell5972

Жыл бұрын

Dumb point, since you can see the ice caps melt if you're in the Arctic.

Jon Y. Thank you God send information with respect and admiration 🙏👍

The episode on icebreakers on Big, Bigger, Biggest is a must-watch. How it evolved into the tech we have now is crazy. Humans are OP.

A bow on a ship. Wow. Bow.

That's what i was looking for!

Great video as always 😂😂

Perhaps you should make a video about Kharkovchanka.

I always wished that Canada had gone a similar route with building massive nuclear ice breakers. I actually think the north is the perfect opportunity for Canada and Russia to try and find something that they can work together on. Collectively maintaining a safe and openly navigable artic waterway for commercial transportation. By doing this, a way to ease tensions and find one more way to work together. Collectively would create one of the most important global shortcuts.

@bulsond

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, this is not possible. The future world will be divided into pan-regions. Your country is part of AUKUS. Eurasia and AUKUS will compete, but not work together in any way.

@Mr.Septon

Жыл бұрын

@@bulsond Canada is not specifically part of that one, but we should figure out something similar. Also part of the Five-Eyes. So Canada is in a weird position in that regard. NAFTA also helps ensure a generally intertwined North America, hopefully that expands to the other North American nations other than the big three. We also are a part of the CPTPP among Pacific nations. So Canada doesn't quite have the same opportunities as other nations to blend into their multiple neighbours the way that others do, but we do have a lot tying us in many directions.

FANTASTIC VIDEO

2:45 A ship's bow rhymes with plow, not know 8:02 The CH in archipelago is pronounced K

@worldoftancraft

Жыл бұрын

The glorious orthography of the language that surely lives nowadays, not in the B.C. times :) It's actually *aspirated* K. Not just simple K.

3:45 exactly the situation I would imagine a soviet nuclear ship from the inside

@ronjon7942

Жыл бұрын

Laf. Ouch, but so true.

Don't hold your breath waiting for the ice to disappear. It hasn't declined in years and they have stopped showing the records about how low it was in the early 1970s (and earlier in the 20th century).

@nobodynoone2500

Жыл бұрын

Shhh!

@JIUNnF

Жыл бұрын

A tragic incident in the north, under the ice in the wake of the bulldozer, a machinist who tried to save the car left.

theres a hypothesis that Siberia will warm up and become the most burgeoning agricultural area on earth. Apparently Russia is already building some amount of infrastructure to prepare for that.

@prabuddhaghosh7022

Жыл бұрын

No point building the infrastructure now as the melting permafrost will buckle the foundations. Wait till the melting is done

hey baby is that an iceberg under there or are you just buoyant... I'll see myself out...

“And it was Rad” I see what you did there. 😄

You missed one of key feature, how these operate. It use massive amount air to pump around under water ship.

it's literally like the movie snow piercer except with a bunch of extra unfrozen water

At 0:07, is this radiation related pun intentional? Pretty great either way!

"Lenin is powered by a 3100 ton nuclear plant" would have been a scary sentence to hear in 1917

Quite interesting topic. Wonder breaking huge chunks of ice into smaller - expedite thier melting or not??? Lastly, sarcism apart USSR was front runner in technology- most of time

I give thumbs up, and it was rad

History and memes? My favorite things!

They even have floating nuclear power plants which make any arctic activity possible. I remember read somewhere on wikipedia that one of those icebreakers (I think arktica) where just bloated version of some swedish or finnish project, but can't find it now. There's interesting application for icebreakers in Canada, not only in St. Lawrence River but for mining operation in Nunavut and in the Northwest Territories. Mary River Mine is a very interesting story, even wikipedia page was very interesting especially for those who also like to read on Daewoo in Uzbekistan and alike. Is there already an episode on Arcelor acquisition by Mittal Steel?

@worldoftancraft

Жыл бұрын

It's spelled 'Arktika'. C has a very different application in Slavic languages

@sshko101

Жыл бұрын

@@worldoftancraft oh it's "k" in both places. I just happened to know a few slavic languages. Maybe I decided to chill out on the number of "k"-s, one more "k" and the ship with all the white snow around it might've become prejudiced against coal steamboats.

@worldoftancraft

Жыл бұрын

@@sshko101 nosotros no somos Latino idiomas XD

@sshko101

Жыл бұрын

@@worldoftancraft El polaco está muy influenciada por el látin.

Nice mention of the Toshiba 3D CNC machines. Illegally acquired? - hmm, let's say, illicitly obtained. The same way the US got its titanium from the Soviets for military uses.

@BurnedHrum

Жыл бұрын

Business as usual

Kind of error, there's an art to icebreakers. Drop by one in Finland (if present and not powering something in south-america as often is the case), there's blowing air beneath the ice before going on top of ice and crushing it in certain situations, all-360 degree bridge (and propellers) in new ones.. Lots of cool stuff there. Several hulls, towing capability depending on ice-rating of ships an icebreaker helps. You need lanes because once you break the ice it freezes harder of course.

This is a good icebreaker if starting a conversation.

14:19 is the german polar research ship "Polarstern" which means "Polaris" in english

A great, succesful design!

You shouldn’t denigrate steam power too much. Please note that nuclear icebreakers are ALSO steam powered. It just has nuclear fuel.

What a Beast of ships. Wonderful ships.👍👍👍 Wish i could sail in One of those., Just a dream ( for now), but who knows.

meme game was strong in this video, well done

We need to commercialize nuclear powered ships as soon as possible if we want to actually transition. Crazy that there's so much backlash against nuclear... The propaganda of oil decades ago really worked....

@Spacedog79

Жыл бұрын

There is renewed interest in nuclear powered shipping, Samsung in South Korea are looking in to this as well as several other groups. It really is the best and perhaps only way we'll decarbonise shipping, we should have been doing it a long time ago.

@Iangamebr

Жыл бұрын

@@Spacedog79 yeah LNG is maybe an option for morr efficient shipping, but nuclear is 100% the way, there's no other way to transport 100s of thousands of tons of material with other energy sources cleanly.

Numerous pronunciation mistakes. The front of a ship is the bow, but not pronounced as done here, but in the way the word is used to describe a performer acknowledging the audience's applause. The CH in "archipelago" is pronounced like a K. A sailing vessel the size of Lenin is called a ship not a boat.

And they were rad lmfao

@jkobain

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think there are even more puns hidden, as usual in these videos.

Icebreakers and crushing impact =comedy genious

"crushing impact" no pun intended?

You're crushing it with those puns! 😂

90% U235. Wow.

I could use these in my awkward small talks.

Love the video but can you maybe use a sponge or something on your microphone, the sharp inhalations are very jarring. Cheers

A ship's 'bow' rhymes with 'cow' :) Muu-sic to my ears, this video

Russia has a reputation of building really large things.... Antonov Cargo Planes, Moon Rocket, Ice Breakers bigger than many ships, heavy lift helicopters that can pick up the biggest helicopter from America. Gives them bragging rights. Oh yeah, their Moon Rocket blew up.

@BurnedHrum

Жыл бұрын

And US "forget" how to build one

@SJR_Media_Group

Жыл бұрын

@@BurnedHrum Sad but true... thanks for comment.

@honkhonk8009

Жыл бұрын

@@BurnedHrum You dont forget how to build these things. The tooling and alot of the supply chain parts that made the SaturnV back then, are not available nowadays for obvious reasons. The SLS is probably the closest the US can get to a modern SaturnV with a fraction of the budget required for the SaturnV back then. Rocket making isnt anything new. NASA is just working with a massive budget constraint.

@robertoroberto9798

Жыл бұрын

@@BurnedHrum They didn’t forget how to make one. The plans are there, but try to make hundreds of companies, most already bankrupt, make small one-off components for a rocket half a century old. Also, we can’t make some components such as the F-1 because there was so many unrecorded micro-changes made by the engineers that even if we copy the plans, it wouldn’t work as well and maybe even blow apart.

Love your video, but bow rhymes with cow. Unless of course you're firing an arrow out of it. Also, the ice will make it impassible

The way you say bow,

"Alright everyone thanks for watching" Me: You're welcome.

I honestly don't understand why in our modern era. With our modern technology and advanced technology and knowledge. Why we don't make tons of nuclear powered ships? It's way better than fossil fuels. It's not even a close competition.

@JIUNnF

Жыл бұрын

Why is there banditry in Congolesia, Somali Ukr.?

@zoNicke

Жыл бұрын

irrational fear of change

@lars7935

Жыл бұрын

Have you seen the crazy hazardous money saving measures commercial shipping does? You can barely trust them to operate a diesel plant and you want to give them a nuclear reactor?

@ronjon7942

Жыл бұрын

@@lars7935 that’s a darn good point

@arturocevallossoto5203

11 ай бұрын

@@lars7935 At least if something goes wrong in a nuke ship it just sinks and the problem solves itself.

Very interesting job, but it would be nice for you to include the information sources you use to make the videos.

That core encased in concrete and dumped off the coastline will be an interesting find in 1,000,000 years

@JIUNnF

Жыл бұрын

Not found will be recycled.

I would be cool if they had a giant ditch dicing style chainsaw in the front!

70 tons of fuel compered to 45 grams blew my find. It really puts in to perspective how powerful uranium is. The most powerful element in human history and we choose to phase it out. Maybe we should phase out coal powerplant before nuclear..

@robertoroberto9798

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately you have to convince Green Peace and the German Green parties for people to be convinced nuclear is the way.

The newest generation has a not terribly memorable name and they should have kept the color theme of the Arktika. This red and black, it's just so good.

5 year old me from 1986 approves of the intro.

So, what you're saying is that if you're hosting a party... these are the ships you would want to invite?

Ah, yes, the "Boh" of the ship. Not to be confused with the Steern, the Kewl, the Hool, the Starburst side, or the Part side.

@tommcewan7936

Жыл бұрын

Ermahgerd! Nerklear ersbrerkers!

@jawoo2228

Жыл бұрын

@@tommcewan7936 I believe it's pronounced "Nook-ya-loor".

@tommcewan7936

Жыл бұрын

@@jawoo2228 different meme, dude.

@jawoo2228

Жыл бұрын

@@tommcewan7936 Tell us more, Mr. Memer.

Considering how global shipping is single handedly responsible for 20% of CO2 emissions, I wonder if nuclear commercial ships could ever be safe enough to be viable.

7:05 the map of the sea is a Dutch map. Who else on this planet would have maps of obscure parts of the world oceans. Go Dutch!