	Like the preceding Project 21900 icebreakers, the new icebreakers are also named after major cities of Russia with "Novorossiysk" representing the main Russian port city on the Black Sea. While a similar naming scheme was also used for a series of five diesel-electric polar icebreakers built by the Finnish shipbuilder Wärtsilä in the 1960s, "Novorossiysk"s 1965-built Soviet-era counterpart, "Kiev", was named the city that became the capital city of Ukraine following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.