Arctic: In A Last Move Before Resigning, Medvedev Secured Funding For Russia's New Giant Icebreakers

I mean bigger than their current giants, the world's largest.
From The Barents Observer:

On January 15th, the same day as he delivered his resignation, Dmitry Medvedev signed a resolution allocating 127 billion rubles (€1,85 billion) to build a nuclear-powered icebreaker bigger and more powerful than anything that previously has sailed in icy Arctic waters.

The Lider-class icebreaker will be bigger and more powerful than anything ever seen before in icy Arctic waters.

What many septics believed was an unrealistic, fantasy project of Arctic ‘giantism’ now turns to be reality.

The Lider-class icebreaker will have a displacement of 55,000 tons, about twice the weight of the current Arktika-class icebreakers like the «Yamal» and «50 Let Pobedy».

Medvedev’s resolution states that the funding goes to Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, in charge of both the Northern Sea Route infrastructure and the operation of the nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet sailing out of Murmansk.

It was RIA Novosti that first reported about the Prime Minister’s decision to provide funding build the first Lider-class icebreaker.

The money is allocated for the period 2020-2027.
It is planned to build three Lider-class icebreakers with deliveries from 2027 to 2035....MORE

I sort of liked the first proposals, they looked like a really grandiose oligarch's yacht crossed with a space vehicle:
January 2018 
Russia Official Announces Plans to Build Space Age Nuclear Icebreakers"

 

An artists rendition of the Lider Icebreaker. 

(Photo: Rosatom/Unified Shipbuilding Corporation)

 
An artist's rendition of the Lider and its helipad. (Source: oaoosk.ru)