while the steel cutting for the second project 21900m to be built by vyborg shipyard was not set to begin until sometime 2013, the production began ahead of schedule and the keel laying ceremony was held on 12 december 2012. after the launching of the first icebreaker, "vladivostok", hull assembly of the sister vessel began on the shipyard's semi-submersible barge "atlant" in may 2019. the unfinished vessel was launched on 29 october 2015 and delivered to rosmorport on 26 december 2016.