Shipboard Accommodation: The newest addition to our polar fleet is the largest, most sophisticated, and powerful icebreaker ever constructed. Twenty years in the making, 50 Years of Victory is the first Arktika-class icebreaker to have a spoon-shaped bow. Boosting efficiency is the all-new digital automated control system. The ship, designed with a stainless steel ice belt hull 5 meters (18 feet) wide, breaks through ice up to 2.5 meters (9.2 feet) thick. It is driven by 2 nuclear reactors that produce 75,000 horsepower. In open water, top speed can be as much as 21.4 knots.

Includes:

• Flight from Helsinki, Finland to Murmansk, Russia
• Flight from Murmansk, Russia to Helsinki, Finland
• One night hotel accommodation prior to embarkation and one night following disembarkation, with buffet breakfast
• Group transfer between hotel and airport in Helsinki and between the airport and hotel
• Group transfer from airport to ship and from ship to airport in Russia
• Loan of a pair of rubber boots for the duration of the voyage.
• Complimentary parka
• All shipboard breakfasts, lunches and dinners throughout the voyage
• Leadership throughout the voyage by our experienced Expedition Leader, including shore landings and other activities
• All helicopter transfers and aerial sightseeing according to each day's program
• Education program delivered by our Expedition Team

  Group Size: Maximum 128 passengers (50 Years of Victory).

  Trip Code: NP