Who is Krasin, whose name is the icebreaker named after? Soviet icebreaker Krasin. From the history of the icebreaker "Krasin"
History of creation
The original name of the icebreaker is Svyatogor. Built by order of the Russian government in the English city of Newcastle, it was assigned to the port of Arkhangelsk. Two years after the construction, during the Anglo-French offensive in 1918, it was decided to flood the icebreaker. Together with several other ships, he sank to the bottom near the mouth of the Chizhovka River, which flows into the Northern Dvina. The main part of the ship's crew took part in the battles on land. In memory of their feat, a granite obelisk stands in Arkhangelsk.
The British were able to raise the ship, and, with the consent of the provisional government, since 1920 the icebreaker sailed under the English flag. The ship received the name "Krasin" in honor of Leonid Borisovich Krasin, at that time the ambassador and minister of foreign trade. It was he who achieved the return of the ship to the Russian fleet.
Rescue of Umberto Nobile's expedition
In 1928, the Krasin icebreaker became known throughout the world. This year, the Italian airship inventor Umberto Nobile organized the second expedition to the North Pole in his life. On the way back, the airship encountered very bad weather conditions. The aircraft was heavily iced over and fell onto the ice. Rescue operations were carried out for a month and a half. They involved ships and aircraft. different countries, hundreds of people. The Soviet Union was able to offer the most adequate assistance. "Krasin" went in the direction of Svalbard, the place where the tragedy occurred. Even the most powerful icebreaker found it difficult to fight the hummocks; on July 6, it stopped in the ice. At that moment, a plane took off in search of people. He managed to locate two surviving crew members. Using the improvement in the ice situation, "Krasin" came out to meet them. On July 12, the Italians Zappi and Mariano boarded. A little later, five more crew members were found. During the rescue operation, the icebreaker itself was damaged. For prompt repairs, he went to the nearest Norwegian port. At this time, the team received a radio message that the German steamer Monte Cervantes was in distress not far from them. Its passengers decided to take part in the Arctic voyage to see the legendary icebreaker. The ship collided with an iceberg and was pierced. After helping the crew of the Monte Cervantes, the Krasin reached Norway. After a small repair, the icebreaker again moved north in search of the expedition of Roald Amundsen, who went to help his friend who was lost in the ice. Unfortunately, the search was unsuccessful and Krasin returned to St. Petersburg.
pre-war time
In the 1920s and 1930s, the icebreaker provided navigation in the White and Baltic Seas. At this time it was appreciated economic importance Northern way. The camps of Norilsk and Kolyma were supplied with provisions through it, and gold and nickel were exported back.
In 1937, the Krasin icebreaker and about 20 other ships froze in the ice near Taimyr. Having made their way to Kozhevnikov Bay, near which there were coal deposits, the sailors set up a simple mine on the shore. To save themselves, the ship's crew temporarily turned into miners. Coal was transported on a sleigh aboard the Krasin. It was enough not only to maintain the life of the ship during the forced wintering, but also to bring other ships out of ice captivity.
Stalinist repressions did not bypass the Krasin crew. The head of the rescue operation of the Italian airship, Joseph Unshlikht, and the captain of the icebreaker, Rudolf Lazarevich Samoilovich, were shot. Commissioner Paul Horas, who worked in the Krasina expedition, died in exile.
Icebreaker new life
In the second half of the twentieth century, the icebreaker began new life. In 1950, she was converted from an icebreaker to an exploration vessel. Since 1972, "Krasin" has been involved in the study of Svalbard. In 1976, a new diesel-electric icebreaker Krasin was produced. To avoid confusion, it was decided to give the veteran of shipping a new name - "Leonid Krasin". In 1989, it was transferred to the International Foundation for the History of Science. In 1992, Krasin received the status of a historical monument of national importance.
The first museum exposition began its work on board the Krasin in 1995. Now there is an active excursion work. Museum visitors can get acquainted with the history of the icebreaker, with the laws of the sea. Much on the ship you can touch with your hands. Here you can get acquainted with the latest navigational instruments and their predecessors, feel the rigor of ship life. The luckiest guests of the museum can meet the ghost of an icebreaker. It sometimes frightens visitors to excursions in the engine room.
There is also a ship's cat on the Krasin - sometimes sightseers manage to see it. They say that they lifted it aboard from an ice floe passing by a few years ago.
You can also visit the ship in virtual space. On the page of the live journal “Kubrik Friends of the Krasin icebreaker” http://community.livejournal.com/krassin_kubrik/profile you can find information about seminars and conferences held in the museum, changes in the work schedule, and, of course, Interesting Facts from the history of navigation.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was a recognized leader in the development of the Arctic Ocean. Extensive trade routes, vast undeveloped territories washed by the northern seas and polar expeditions- all this required the development of maritime transport capable of coping with the harsh Arctic conditions and ensuring the fulfillment of tasks for the development of the Russian north.
It is for this reason that an icebreaker fleet appears in Russia. For half a century, the first-born of the Russian icebreaking fleet "Ermak" and "Svyatogor" were the most powerful ships of this class in the world.
"Svyatogor", which will later be renamed "Krasin", will improve the design of the first Russian icebreaker "Ermak" and for several decades determined the general line in the development of domestic icebreaking.
In nearly 70 years of his career, he will write many historical milestones in his logbook - sinking, and then rising from the bottom of the sea; the rescue of Umberto Nobile's Arctic expedition and the escort of allied convoys during World War II; passage by the northern route to America and an 885-day circumnavigation of the world.
And in 1980, the icebreaker "Krasin", having become permanently moored in Leningrad, became a museum ship, which is still operating today ...
2. The icebreaker "Krasin" was named "Svyatogor" during construction. By the end of the first decade of the new twentieth century, one Arctic Russian icebreaker "Ermak" is not enough to provide work in the Arctic. "Ermak" for a long time had no equal among the icebreakers in terms of strength and power. And in 1911 - 1912, at the initiative of the commander of the Baltic Fleet, Vice Admiral N. O. Essen, the question was raised about the need to create a second icebreaker of the same type. At the same time, the terms of reference for the construction of the vessel were also developed, but the high design cost did not allow the leadership of the Maritime Ministry to place this order.
However, in early January 1916, Russia returned to this issue and it was decided to build an icebreaker with three propellers and a power of 10,000 hp, capable of breaking ice up to 2 meters thick, and in the same year a contract was signed with the English company "Sir Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. The new icebreaker "Svyatogor" was built taking into account the operating experience of the "Yermak" and somewhat surpassed it in terms of tactical and technical data.
3. Work on the construction of the icebreaker was carried out at a rapid pace. On January 12, material for the keel was ordered, and by May a third of the mass of the hull had already been assembled, drawings of the internal layout of the ship's premises had been fully developed. Just a few months later, on August 3, the ship was launched, and two days later the icebreaker was towed from Newcastle to Middlesbrough, escorted by eight destroyers, where they began to put steam engines on it. On October 1, 1916, the Svyatogor was included in the lists of the Russian Navy in the class of sea icebreakers, and on March 31, 1917, the Andreevsky flag was hoisted on the icebreaker. "Svyatogor" was enrolled in the flotilla of the Arctic Ocean.
In total, the construction, sea trials, acceptance procedures and commissioning of the new icebreaker took ... a little over a year.
This is at the beginning of the 20th century. It just begs a parallel with the modern bureaucratic machine, kickbacks, huge expenses and the timing of the same rather large-scale projects, after which it becomes simply sad.
4. Only a year passes and on August 1, 1918, the icebreaker "Svyatogor" is decided ... to be flooded on the sea route to Arkhangelsk in order to block the path of the interventionists to the port, which is important for proletarian Russia. After some time, the British raise the Russian icebreaker, and it continues to perform its functions, but already under the British flag.
5. In 1921, the Svyatogor was bought by the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade of the RSFSR with the personal participation of Plenipotentiary L.B. Krasin from the British and returned to serve in the Russian Navy, and after 7 years it will be renamed in honor of Leonid Krasin
6. In 1928, the icebreaker "Krasin" becomes world famous - that year he took part in the rescue of the Arctic expedition of Umberto Nobile, who survived the crash of the airship "Italia".
In 1928, an expedition of 16 people led by Umberto Nobile set off on a flight to the North Pole on a new airship named "Italy" in honor of his homeland. The airship took off from Svalbard on May 11, 1928, flew over the Pole and landed safely in Alaska. Then the crew conquered the North Pole and "Italy" lay down on the return course, and on May 25 the connection with the airship was suddenly cut off. The whole world learned about what happened only after 9 days. The crew consisted of 16 people, among them were two foreigners: the Swedish geophysicist F. Malmgren and the Czech physicist F. Beguonek.
To the place of the tragedy began to advance among heavy ice ships under the flags of different countries, planes took off with international crews on board. In total, at least one and a half thousand people participated in the rescue operation - nothing like this has ever happened in the Arctic. It was the first international rescue operation in mankind, in which 18 ships and 21 aircraft from six countries participated. A Norwegian scientist, once a friend and like-minded person, and then a rival and ill-wisher of Nobile, Roald Amundsen, having learned about the disaster, immediately set off to rescue the polar explorers. Unfortunately, the rescue expedition was not without casualties. Three Italian pilots died while returning home, and the French-Norwegian crew of the Latham-47 seaplane, on board of which Roald Amundsen was, also went missing. Nobile himself was taken out of the camp by the Swedish pilot Lundborg, who managed to ice up. However, the second flight of Lundborg was not so successful. The plane crashed, and the pilot himself was left to wait for help on a drifting ice floe. Lundborg was saved only two weeks later. The rest of the group was rescued by the crew of the Krasin icebreaker.
In memory of that rescue expedition, a part of the shell of the airship "Italia" by Umberto Nobile is kept on the icebreaker "Krasin"
7. Since the beginning of the war, icebreakers have become warships, which were entrusted with the responsible task of ensuring the escort of convoys in ice conditions. We can judge the importance attached to the icebreaker fleet, if only by the fact that Hitler promised to award the Iron Cross - Germany's highest award - to those who sink or disable an icebreaker. However, the Soviet Union, which possessed the most powerful icebreaker fleet, solved the task assigned to it, and fascist Germany did not succeed in disorganizing either convoy operations or the work of the Main Northern Sea Route.
During the war, the icebreaker "Krasin" repeatedly escorted convoys with military cargo along the northern sea route. The most important caravan, which was carried out thanks to the icebreaker, was the PQ-15 convoy - the largest of all convoys during the war. It included 26 transports.
8. After the war, "Krasin" passed overhaul and modernization at the shipyards of the GDR. Its appearance is changing, now it becomes like its grandchildren - diesel-electric icebreakers of post-war construction.
In the role of the icebreaker "Krasin" worked until the 1970s. Then, giving way to more modern ships, he continued to work as a power base for Arctic oil exploration expeditions of the Ministry of Geology on the islands of Svalbard and Franz Josef Land.
In the late 1980s, the Krasin was acquired by the All-Union Society "Knowledge" and sent to Leningrad to continue serving in the long-deserved and honorary position of a museum ship. Now the icebreaker's parking place is the Lieutenant Schmidt embankment near the Mining Institute. Currently, it is a branch of the Kaliningrad Museum of the World Ocean.
9. Navigation bridge of the icebreaker. From here the ship was controlled during all its numerous sea voyages.
10. Machine telegraph
11. Magnetic compass located on the navigation bridge
12. Communication facilities on the navigation bridge. Numerous telephones complement the classic handsets
13. We go down to the lower rooms located on the lower decks
14. Navigation cabin
At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was a recognized leader in the development of the Arctic Ocean. Extensive trade routes, vast undeveloped territories washed by the northern seas and polar expeditions - all this required the development of maritime transport capable of coping with the harsh Arctic conditions and ensuring the fulfillment of tasks for the development of the Russian north. It is for this reason that an icebreaker fleet appears in Russia. For half a century, the first-born of the Russian icebreaker fleet, Yermak and Svyatogor, were the most powerful ships of this class in the world. Svyatogor, which will later be renamed Krasin, improves the design of the first Russian icebreaker Yermak and determined the general line in the development of domestic icebreaking. For almost 70 years of his work, he will write many historical milestones in his logbook - flooding, and then lifting from the bottom of the sea; the rescue of Umberto Nobile's Arctic expedition and the escort of allied convoys during World War II; passage by the northern route to America and 885-day circumnavigation of the world. And in 1980, the icebreaker "Krasin", having become permanently moored in Leningrad, becomes a museum ship, operating to this day ...
Icebreaker "Krasin" during the construction was named "Svyatogor". By the end of the first decade of the new twentieth century, one Arctic Russian icebreaker "Ermak" is not enough to provide work in the Arctic. "Ermak" for a long time had no equal among the icebreakers in terms of strength and power. And in 1911 - 1912, at the initiative of the commander of the Baltic Fleet, Vice Admiral N. O. Essen, the question was raised about the need to create a second icebreaker of the same type. At the same time, the terms of reference for the construction of the vessel were also developed, but the high design cost did not allow the leadership of the Maritime Ministry to place this order. However, in early January 1916, Russia returned to this issue and it was decided to build an icebreaker with three propellers and a power of 10,000 hp, capable of breaking ice up to 2 meters thick, and in the same year a contract was signed with the English company "Sir Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. The new icebreaker "Svyatogor" was built taking into account the operating experience of the "Yermak" and somewhat surpassed it in terms of tactical and technical data.
Work on the construction of the icebreaker was carried out at a rapid pace. On January 12, material for the keel was ordered, and by May a third of the mass of the hull had already been assembled, drawings of the internal layout of the ship's premises had been fully developed. Just a few months later, on August 3, the ship was launched, and two days later the icebreaker was towed from Newcastle to Middlesbrough, escorted by eight destroyers, where they began to put steam engines on it. On October 1, 1916, the Svyatogor was included in the lists of the Russian Navy in the class of sea icebreakers, and on March 31, 1917, the Andreevsky flag was hoisted on the icebreaker. "Svyatogor" was enrolled in the flotilla of the Arctic Ocean. In total, the construction, sea trials, acceptance procedures and commissioning of the new icebreaker took ... a little more than a year. This was at the beginning of the 20th century.
Only a year passes and on August 1, 1918, the icebreaker "Svyatogor" is decided ... to be sunk on the sea route to Arkhangelsk in order to block the path of the interventionists to the port that is important for proletarian Russia. After some time, the British raise the Russian icebreaker, and it continues to perform its functions, but already under the British flag.
In 1921, the Svyatogor was bought by the People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade of the RSFSR with the personal participation of Plenipotentiary L.B. Krasin from the British and returned to serve in the Russian Navy, and after 7 years it will be renamed in honor of Leonid Krasin
In 1928, the icebreaker "Krasin" became world famous - that year he took part in the rescue of the Arctic expedition of Umberto Nobile, who survived the crash of the airship "Italia". In 1928, an expedition of 16 people led by Umberto Nobile set off on a flight to the North Pole on a new airship named "Italy" in honor of his homeland. The airship took off from Svalbard on May 11, 1928, flew over the Pole and landed safely in Alaska. Then the crew conquered the North Pole and "Italy" lay down on the return course, and on May 25 the connection with the airship was suddenly cut off. The whole world learned about what happened only after 9 days. The crew consisted of 16 people, among them were two foreigners: the Swedish geophysicist F. Malmgren and the Czech physicist F. Beguonek. Ships under the flags of different countries began to move to the site of the tragedy among the heavy ice, aircraft with international crews on board took off. In total, at least one and a half thousand people participated in the rescue operation - nothing like this has ever happened in the Arctic. It was the first international rescue operation in the history of mankind, which involved 18 ships and 21 aircraft from six countries. A Norwegian scientist, once a friend and like-minded person, and then a rival and ill-wisher of Nobile, Roald Amundsen, having learned about the disaster, immediately set off to rescue the polar explorers. Unfortunately, the rescue expedition was not without casualties. Three Italian pilots died while returning home, and the French-Norwegian crew of the Latham-47 seaplane, on board of which Roald Amundsen was, also went missing. Nobile himself was taken out of the camp by the Swedish pilot Lundborg, who managed to ice up. However, the second flight of Lundborg was not so successful. The plane crashed, and the pilot himself was left to wait for help on a drifting ice floe. Lundborg was saved only two weeks later. The rest of the group was rescued by the crew of the Krasin icebreaker. In memory of that rescue expedition, a part of the shell of the airship "Italia" by Umberto Nobile is stored on the icebreaker "Krasin"
From the beginning of the war, icebreakers became warships, which were entrusted with the responsible task of providing convoy escort in ice conditions. We can judge the importance attached to the icebreaker fleet, if only by the fact that Hitler promised to award the Iron Cross - Germany's highest award - to those who sink or disable an icebreaker. However, the Soviet Union, which possessed the most powerful icebreaker fleet, solved the task assigned to it, and Nazi Germany failed to disorganize either the convoy operations or the work of the Main Northern Sea Route. During the war, the icebreaker "Krasin" repeatedly escorted convoys with military cargo along the northern sea route. The most important caravan that was carried out thanks to the icebreaker was the PQ-15 convoy - the largest of all convoys during the war. It included 26 transports.
After the war, "Krasin" was overhauled and modernized at the shipyards of the GDR. Its appearance is changing, now it becomes like its grandchildren - diesel-electric icebreakers of post-war construction. In the role of the icebreaker "Krasin" worked until the 1970s. Then, giving way to more modern ships, he continued to work as a power base for Arctic oil exploration expeditions of the Ministry of Geology on the islands of Svalbard and Franz Josef Land. In the late 1980s, the Krasin was acquired by the All-Union Society "Knowledge" and sent to Leningrad to continue serving in the long-deserved and honorary position of a museum ship. Now the icebreaker's parking place is the Lieutenant Schmidt embankment, near the Mining Institute. Currently, it is a branch of the Kaliningrad Museum of the World Ocean.
The navigation bridge of the icebreaker. From here the ship was controlled during all its numerous sea voyages.
Machine telegraph
The main compass located on the navigation bridge
Communication facilities on the navigation bridge. Numerous telephones complement the classic handsets
We descend into the lower rooms located on the lower decks
Navigator cabin
Here the course is laid and entries are made in the logbook
Radio...
And their earlier predecessors
According to the guide, this interesting device was used to indicate the ship's course and watch schedule for illiterate sailors who could not read
The Krasin is a legendary ship that survived the war, the long journey of emigration, and even death. For several decades, it was the most powerful Arctic icebreaker in the world. Today, the icebreaker, a legend of the Russian fleet, is moored on the Lieutenant Schmidt embankment and is a branch of the Kaliningrad Museum of the World Ocean.
Everything you need to know about one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world.
At the beginning of the last century, Russia was recognized as a leader in the development of the Arctic Ocean. The prerequisite for the emergence of the icebreaker fleet was the vast trade routes, as well as the vast undeveloped territories washed by the northern seas. For almost half of the 20th century, the firstborn of the icebreaking fleet were the Yermak and Svyatogor ships. They were unmatched in power in the world.
"Svyatogor", which was later renamed "Krasin", for seven decades managed to sink, rise from the seabed, survive a terrible war and save people who suffered a plane crash. Only in the late 1980s, the icebreaker moored to the embankment of Leningrad, where, as a veteran, he began to wait on board for children's excursions and crowds of tourists.
Originally from England
At the beginning of the 20th century, for work in the Arctic, the country lacked the only Yermak icebreaker at that time, although it had no equal in power and strength. The Baltic Fleet raised the issue of laying the ship back in 1911, but the matter stalled for five years.
Russia returned to the problem only in January 1916. The contract for the construction of an icebreaker with three propellers, a capacity of 10 thousand horsepower and a displacement of more than 10 thousand tons was signed with Sir Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. from England. Specialists from Newcastle had previously worked on the Yermak project.
The arrival of "Ermak" in Kronstadt.
The British coped with the construction of the ship rather quickly. A third of the mass of the hull was assembled by a foreign company by May 1916, and on August 3 the ship was already launched and completed in Middlesbrough. During the test trials, it was revealed that the ship did not obey the helm, but these problems were eliminated. September 15, 1917 "Svyatogor" was fully completed and included in the flotilla of the Arctic Ocean. The icebreaker was brought to the port of Arkhangelsk, where it was supposed to serve for a very long time.
Drowned in service
The events that unfolded in Russia in 1918 directly affected Svyatogor. In summer, the period of Anglo-French intervention began. Foreign ships approached Arkhangelsk, where the icebreaker served. It was decided to block the way for the interventionist ships so that they could not enter the city. For this, it was decided to sacrifice the ship. "Svyatogor" was supposed to "perish" at the mouth of the Northern Dvina. However, they failed to sink the ship normally. "Svyatogor" was grounded so that both 16-meter pipes and most of the hull were visible above the water surface.
The sacrifices were in vain - the British troops entered Arkhangelsk. A few days later, they were able to raise the icebreaker from the bottom of the Northern Dvina, and then, without drawing up any papers at all, they took it to themselves. "Svyatogor" since 1920 went under the English flag.
Return to Russia
In November 1919, Russia could not cope with the trouble in the northern seas without the most powerful icebreaker at that time, which worked in England. In the autumn, the icebreaking ship Solovey Budimirovich went to Kanin Nos to buy meat from the Nenets for the starving inhabitants of Arkhangelsk. As a result, the ship was covered in ice and taken out to the Kara Sea. 85 people could not get help for four months. The Bolshevik leadership had to turn to the British, who a year ago took away the Svyatogor in order to break through the ice to the people in distress. The leased icebreaker completed its mission and returned to England for another two years.
New name
All the time while the icebreaker served with foreigners, the Bolshevik leadership was negotiating to return the ship back. The diplomat Leonid Krasin managed to get things off the ground. The British trade representative in 1921 worked on the signing of the Soviet-British trade agreement, which marked a turn in the development of diplomatic relations with the countries of the West. At the same time, the diplomat agreed on the return by England of the Svyatogor icebreaker, taken away in 1918, naturally, not free of charge - the Russian side paid a decent amount.
Leonid Krasin passed away in 1926, and a year later the ship he returned was named after him. Under this name, the icebreaker was destined to accomplish several more feats.
Rescue of the crew of the airship "Italy"
At the beginning of the 20th century, airship construction occupied a special place in the history of aeronautics. Airships, like icebreakers, began to be built directly in order to conquer the Arctic expanses.
The airship "Norge", created by the Italian engineer Umberto Nobile, in 1926 flew across the entire Central Arctic to North Pole. Roald Amundsen was the leader of that expedition. Almost immediately after this, a discord occurred between him and Nobile. The enmity of two prominent people prompted Nobile to repeat the flight, organizing his own expedition without the participation of Amundsen. For these purposes, a new airship was built - "Italy", the prototype for which was the "Norge". The expedition consisted of 16 people. According to Nobile's plan, a group of researchers was supposed to land on the 90th parallel and conduct experiments there. Thus, the Italian wanted to win the dispute with Amundsen.
On May 11, 1928, the airship Italia took off from Svalbard, flew over the Pole, and landed in Alaska. But on the way back, disaster struck. Contact with "Italy" was lost on May 25.
Later it turned out that the airship had a gas leak 100 km away and it began to lose altitude. The aircraft hit the ice surface hard. The mechanic died from the impact. Six people are missing. Another 10 members of the expedition, including Nobile, were trapped in ice. Nine days later, with the help of a radio station, the crashed people were accidentally able to transmit a signal for help, which was picked up by a radio amateur.
The world learned about the tragedy and Krasin went to the rescue among 18 ships and 21 aircraft. On July 12, breaking through the ice, the ship was able to save most of the expedition, which almost perished in the ice after the crash of the Italia. It is worth noting that during the rescue expedition, the Latham-47 plane crashed, on which the same Roald Amundsen flew, with whom Nobile was at enmity. In the future, the Italian admits that Amundsen was able to defeat him.
Krasin, after participating in a rescue expedition, became known throughout the world.
Member of World War II
Second World War caught a Soviet icebreaker on Far East. To serve, he had to cross two oceans - the Pacific and Atlantic - as well as the Panama Canal. "Krasin" managed to start navigation in the western section of the Arctic.
Since the beginning of hostilities, icebreakers have become military ships, which were forced to provide escort for convoys in ice conditions. The fascist German command promised high rewards to those who would disable enemy icebreakers, but the Soviet troops did not allow the escort operations to be disorganized. Krasin itself conducted repeated escort of convoys with the most important cargo along the northern sea route.
honorary parking
In the role of an icebreaker, the ship worked until the 1970s, and before that it managed to undergo repairs in the GDR, having slightly changed its appearance. Further, they had to give way to more modern ships. Prior to being transferred to Leningrad, Krasin had already worked as a power base for Arctic oil exploration expeditions of the Ministry of Geology on the islands of Svalbard and Franz Josef Land.
In the late 1980s, the Krasin icebreaker, which had worked notably in the Arctic, came under the care of the All-Union Society Znanie and went to Leningrad to continue its service as a museum ship on the Lieutenant Schmidt embankment.
Namesake from Finland
Another icebreaker "Krasin" was built in Finland in 1976. It was designed to replace its aging predecessor, and in itself was a kind of nuclear icebreaker "Lenin". The ship was already much more powerful than the first Krasin (36,000 hp). Taking on a proud name, the 1976 icebreaker managed to take part in a rescue operation in the Sea of Okhotsk in 2011, when about 600 fishermen got stuck there.
