 The vessels, "Vitus Bering" and "Aleksey Chirikov", were delivered in December 2012 and April 2013, respectively.On 8 December 2011, it was announced that Arctech Helsinki Shipyard had signed a contract together with Shipyard Yantar JSC from Yantar, Kaliningrad, for the construction of a 76 million euro icebreaking multipurpose emergency and rescue vessel for the Russian Ministry of Transport.The so-called "oblique icebreaker" would feature an asymmetric hull designed to break a channel in level ice when operating sideways.