It is docked in the Pevek harbour, providing heat to the town and supplying electricity to the regional Chaun-Bilibino power system.

[5] In August 2008, the Russian government approved the transfer of work from Sevmash to the Baltic Shipyard (Baltiysky Zavod) in Saint Petersburg.

[9] Originally, Akademik Lomonosov was supposed to supply power to the Sevmash shipyard itself and the town of Severodvinsk, located in Arkhangelsk Oblast in Northwest Russia.

It was expected to be delivered in 2019, and to replace the nearby Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant, which was at the end of its service life.

[11] The 5,000 km (3100 mi) towing operation through the Arctic Ocean by icebreaker Dikson began on 23 August 2019.

[12] On 9 September 2019, it arrived at its permanent location in the Chukotka district, the far eastern end of the Far East region.

[23] The reactors were designed by OKBM Afrikantov and assembled by Nizhniy Novgorod Research and Development Institute Atomenergoproekt, both part of Atomenergoprom.

The design incorporates all the state-of-the-art safeguards as documented in IAEA INSAG-3 recommendation and Russian civilian reactors had not a single accident leading to a radioactive leak in 34 years.