At the Finnish shipyard Arctech Helsinki Shipyard on April 11, 2013, an Arctic-type marine vessel of the draft NB 507, which was named after the Russian navigator Alexei Chirikov, was launched.

The Russian Federation and Finland have set up a joint venture to build icebreaking vessels for the high latitudes of the Arctic. Not long ago, the organization received an order for the first two icebreakers for heavy ice conditions.