Krasin Icebreaker Museum

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KRASIN, the world's only is floating icebreaker museum, member of the International Historic Naval Ships Association. Constructed in 1916-17 on the drafts of Vice Admiral S.O. Makarov in Great Britain (named before 1927 Svyatogor, after a Russian mythological warrior). She was assigned to the port of Arkhangelsk, in 1918 sunk in the estuary of the Northern Dvina in order to block access for interventionist ships to Arkhangelsk, was later hoisted up and towed to Great Britain as a war trophy. In 1921, due to the efforts of the Soviet plenipotentiary envoy L.B. Krasin, the icebreaker was redeemed (after Krasin's death the icebreaker was named after him). The icebreaker took part in the rescue operation of U. Nobile's Italian Polar Expedition (1928), during the Great Patriotic War 1941-45 she escorted Allied Arctic convoys. In 1957-63 the ship was modernised in Germany, and until 1972 led ships along the Northern Seaway, and functioned as a floating electric power station on Island of Spitzbergen. In 1990 the ship launched on her last voyage along European ports. In 1992 was anchored beside the Mining Institute (Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment, on the 22nd Line of Vasilievsky Island). The ship was turned into a museum, with an exposition devoted to the history of the ship and icebreaker building industry in Russia. The Friends Club of Icebreaker Krasin was set up in St. Petersburg in 1999. (5/36 Nalichnaya Street).

References: Бурак Л. Ю. Единственный из многих, "Красин" - морская слава России // Полярные конвои, 1941-1945. СПб., 1999; Ледокол "Красин". СПб., 2001.

N. L. Korsakova. Krasin Leonid Borisovich
Makarov Stepan Osipovich
22nd Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city
Leitenanta Schmidta Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Nalichnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 36, litera корп. 5
Бурак Л. Ю. Единственный из многих, "Красин" - морская слава России // Полярные конвои, 1941-1945. СПб., 1999
Ледокол "Красин". СПб., 2001 Plekhanov State Mining Institute, St. Petersburg