The Yamal icebreaker was built at St. Petersburg Shipyard in Russia on May 25th, 1986, and was officially launched on October 28th, 1992, with a total cost of US$ 3 billion. It is 55m high,150m long and 30m wide. The hull has 12 floors, four of which are underwater, including all guest rooms, storage rooms and control rooms. There are 1280 cabins. "Yamal" has two seawater purifiers, which can provide 240 cubic meters of drinking water every day; In case of emergency such as storm or grounding, the food and materials it carries can maintain the survival of passengers on board for 7 months. The most special thing about Yamal is that it has two nuclear heavy water reactors, which is why it can rely on the super horsepower of 75,000 to carry an iceberg as high as 6 meters in the Arctic Ocean.

The Yamal icebreaker also has a very warm side. It is a mobile five-star hotel in the Arctic Ocean. Later, Mr. Laurie Dexter and the main staff began to show us the main facilities of this "five-star hotel". For example, a very warm small library located on the second floor of the deck contains books in various languages, and many Chinese books are also found here; Out of the library are the 24-hour teahouse and mini-bar, where passengers can relax and look at some fresh information on the deck bulletin board. There is also a small post office, a small audio-visual room, and a restaurant that can accommodate 150 people at the same time.

The first floor of the deck is the lecture room, where scientists from all over the world will give many interesting and important speeches and show some precious information films. There is a small shop on the first floor of the deck, selling all kinds of souvenirs from the ship; On the third deck, there is a small swimming pool, a volleyball room and a gym. Passengers can exercise their muscles at any time. The business center is located on the fourth floor of the deck, where you can print, copy and process some documents.

The weather and geographical conditions in the Arctic have very high requirements for transportation, and the ordinary icebreaker lacks power to break through the thick ice layer at high latitudes and complete the Arctic exploration. If you fly to the North Pole, because the plane can't catch fire at the extremely low temperature in the North Pole, the fuel you carry can only support the plane to stay in the North Pole for one hour without stalling. In addition, the Arctic is mainly composed of ice floes that will melt at any time, and the plane must leave after staying on the ice floes for at most one hour. In contrast, the nuclear-powered icebreaker has incomparable performance compared with the general diesel-powered icebreaker. As long as its nuclear reactor contains 10 kg of uranium, it is equivalent to taking 25,000 tons of coal, which gives it enough horsepower to break through the ice sea.

At present, icebreakers in the world are generally divided into three levels: one is an ordinary icebreaker, 15000 horsepower; One is an intermediate icebreaker with 25,000 horsepower; The other is Yamal, a 75,000 horsepower nuclear-powered icebreaker. Yamal icebreaker is the safest icebreaker in the world and the only super civil icebreaker in the world that can reach the North Pole.

It not only has a super horsepower of 75,000 horses, but also has a 70-cm thin skates under the bow. There are two large propellers on both sides of the ice skates, and hot water is continuously injected into them when necessary, so that the ice can be easily cut and divided into smaller ice cubes to facilitate the ship's progress. At the same time, the steel plates on both sides of the hull are 4.8 cm thick, which is enough to resist any pressure on the hull when the ice cubes are squeezed. Because of this, the "Yamal Icebreaker" can easily break the ice on a 6-meter-thick ice layer, with a maximum breaking capacity of 9 meters. Not only that, the Yamal icebreaker is powerful enough to pull another ship to break the ice in the Arctic Ocean and walk like a fly.