diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4e0e341ea3b..53ebde0cd3b 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@
 [submodule "contrib/icudata"]
 	path = contrib/icudata
 	url = https://github.com/ClickHouse/icudata
+[submodule "contrib/icu"]
+	path = contrib/icu
+	url = https://github.com/ClickHouse/icu
 [submodule "contrib/flatbuffers"]
 	path = contrib/flatbuffers
 	url = https://github.com/ClickHouse/flatbuffers
diff --git a/contrib/icu b/contrib/icu
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..4216173eeeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/icu
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 4216173eeeb39c1d4caaa54a68860e800412d273