The VII International Forum Arctic: Today and the Future was held at the Expoforum Centre, St. Petersburg, from 4 to 6 December. The Krylov Centre has delegated a team of top scientists and engineers to take an active part in the business program.

The flag raising ceremony aboard the newly commissioned icebreaker «Iya Muromets» was performed on 30 November. The ship was built for the Russian Navy to support the Arctic naval forces. This multi-role vessel is also capable to carry out rescue and towage operations.   Excellent manoeuvrability of the icebreaker is enabled by the unique electric propulsion system designed by TSNII SET (affiliated branch of Krylov Centre). This system is built around an innovative type of converter technology.

St. Petersburg International Scientific and Industrial Composite Forum was held at «Lenexpo» exhibition complex on November 13-17, 2017. The scope of the Forum included the exposition, applied research conference «Composite materi-als: the prospects of composites manufacturing and application. Boosting the demand for compo-sites is the main driver of industry de-velopment» and the 13th International Conference of Young Scientists «The current problems in polymer science».

The first All-Russian Scientific and Technical Conference of Young Scientists and Specialists that became the landmark event for the whole shipbuilding industry was held at the Krylov Centre on November 16-17. The event took place under the auspices of Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and Fund «Ot vinta!» (Take-off).

The conference «LNG Fleet and LNG Bunkering in Russia» was held in the premises of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation on October 25, 2017. The conference was organized by the Krylov State Research Centre and industry-related media group «PortNews».

The World Festival of Youth and Students was held in Sochi from 14 to 22 October 2017. For the first time in its history the Festival events included the New Technologies & Innovations Exhibition organized at the initiative of the Youth Coordination Council of Minpromtorg (Ministry of Industry & Trade) with assistance of the foundation «Ot Vinta» (startup).

Krylov’s researchers from the hydro-aerodynamic division took part in the ROADEXPO-2017 held in Moscow, at CROCUS EXPO Exhibition Center, from 10 to 13 October. ROADEXPO is one of the major specialized exhibitions in Russia highly appreciated not only by professionals directly engaged in the road industry sector but also winning the attention of allied transport and construction sectors, because this event is intended to span all aspects of road infrastructure development.

The Krylov Centre has sent a team of experts to take part in Forum 100+ Russia, an international congress and exhibition on design, construction, financing and operation of high-rise buildings and various unique structures, which was held from 4 to 6 October in Ekaterinburg.

22 September, the Baltic Shipyard launched the second nuclear icebreaker of Project 2220 named «Sibir». The launching ceremony was attended by Nikolai Tsukanov, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the North-Western Federal District, Director General of ROSATOM Alexei Likhachev, President of USC Alexei Rakhmanov, and Tatiana Golikova, Chairwoman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, who also acted as a godmother of the icebreaker smashing a bottle of champagne at the icebreaker’s side.

Wuxi (China) hosted the Plenary Session of the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) that took place during 17 to 22 September. ITTC is widely known as the most influential world-wide association of organizations in the field of hydrodynamics convened every 3 years. This time the event was held on the premises of China Ship Scientific Research Centre (CSSRC). The Conference was attended by 226 delegates from 27 countries representing 95 organizations working for the benefit of the shipbuilding industry.