#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The world’s first nuclear icebreaker Lenin with the museum of the same name on board was towed by tugboats from its mooring place near the marine station in Murmansk to the dock for scheduled repairs, Atomflot reports.
The nuclear icebreaker Lenin is the founder of the domestic nuclear icebreaker fleet, and the day of raising the state flag on the ship, December 3, 1959, is the official date of the nuclear icebreaker fleet founding.
Thanks to the high power and high autonomy, the icebreaker demonstrated excellent performance in the first navigations in the Arctic. During its work, it escorted 3740 vessels, significantly extending the navigation period.
In June 1971, the icebreaker Lenin was the second of the surface vessels after the icebreaker steamer A. Sibiryakov who passed north of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in 1932. Thus, the expedition of the icebreaker Arktika to the North Pole in 1977 was prepared. On April 10, 1974, the nuclear-powered icebreaker was awarded the Order of Lenin for the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes and a major contribution to ensuring Arctic transportation.
The icebreaker Lenin worked for 30 years and in 1989 was decommissioned and put into permanent mooring in Murmansk.
The nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin will be in the dock for about a month and will return to its mooring site approximately on September 14.
Today, the world’s first nuclear-powered icebreaker is the most visited tourist attraction in the Murmansk region. Since 2009, it has been visited by over 650 thousand tourists.
We also wrote that about 150 tourists from different countries went to the North Pole on the nuclear-powered icebreaker from Murmansk.
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Text: Denis Kozhevnikov, Photo: author
