Showing posts with label Icebreakers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Icebreakers. Show all posts

05/07/2019

"Yermak" and "Lenin"

1899 - Icebreaker "Yermak". 1959 - Nuclear-powered icebreaker "Lenin".
Esimesed maailmas. 1899 - jäälõhkuja "Jermak". 1959 - aatomijäälõhkuja "Lenin".

1959.

Пензенский СНХ ф-ка "Победа".
Pensa tikuvabrik "Pobeda" (Võit).

Also:
Icebreaker "Yermak" https://tikutopsike.blogspot.com/2019/04/soviet-icebreakers-3.html
Nuclear-powered icebreaker "Lenin" https://tikutopsike.blogspot.com/2019/06/soviet-icebreakers-9.html

26/06/2019

Soviet Icebreakers - 9.

Nuclear-powered icebreaker "Lenin".
Атомный ледокол "Ленин".
Aaatomijäälõhkuja "Lenin".

1959.

Ярославский СМХ ф-ка "Маяк".
Jaroslavli tikuvabrik "Majak" (Majakas).

* "Lenin" is a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker. Launched in 1957, it was both the world's first nuclear-powered surface ship[2] and the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel. She was officially decommissioned in 1989. She was subsequently converted to a museum ship and is now permanently based at Murmansk.- Wikipedia.

14/06/2019

Soviet Icebreakers - 8.

Icebreaker "Captain Belousov".
Ледокол "Капитан Белоусов".
Jäälõhkuja "Kapten Beloussov".

1959.

Ярославский СМХ ф-ка "Маяк".
Jaroslavli tikuvabrik "Majak" (Majakas).

02/06/2019

Soviet Icebreakers - 7.

Icebreaker "Krasin".
Ледоколь "Красин".
Jäälõhkuja "Krassin".

1959.

Ярославский СМХ ф-ка "Маяк".
Jaroslavli tikuvabrik "Majak" (Majakas).

* Icebreaker Krasin was built for the Imperial Russian Navy as Svyatogor (1916). She had a long, distinguished career in rescue operations, as well as a pathfinder and explorer of the Northern Sea Route. She has been fully restored to operating condition and is now a museum ship in Saint Petersburg. In 1927 this icebreaker was renamed by the Soviet government to honor a recently deceased early Bolshevik leader and Soviet diplomat Leonid Krasin. - Wikipedia.

20/05/2019

Soviet Icebreakers - 6.

Icebreaker "Admiral Makarov".
Ледокол "Адмирал Макаров".
Jäälõhkuja "Admiral Makarov".

1959.

Ярославский СМХ ф-ка "Маяк".
Jaroslavli tikuvabrik "Majak" (Majakas).

* After service on the Greenland Patrol, and assisting USCGC Eastwind in capturing the German weather ship Externsteine, Southwind was transferred to the Soviet Union on 23 or 25 March 1945 as part of the Lend-Lease Program.  The ship served in the Soviet merchant marine under the name "Admiral Makarov", (named in honor of Stepan Makarov) until being returned to the U.S. Navy on 28 December 1949 at Yokosuka Japan. - Wikipedia.
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18/05/2019

Soviet Icebreakers - 5.

Icebreaker "Sadko".
Ледокол "Малыгин".
Jäälõhkuja "Sadko".

1959.

Ярославский СМХ ф-ка "Маяк".
Jaroslavli tikuvabrik "Majak" (Majakas).

* "Sadko" (1912-1941) was a Russian and Soviet icebreaker ship. She was named after Sadko, a hero of a Russian bylina.  - Wikipedia.

26/04/2019

Soviet Icebreakers - 4.

Icebreaker "Malygin".
Ледокол "Малыгин".
Jäälõhkuja "Malõgin".

1959.

Ярославский СМХ ф-ка "Маяк".
Jaroslavli tikuvabrik "Majak" (Majakas).

* "Malygin" was built in 1912 as the SS Bruce for the Newfoundland shipping company and sold to Russia in 1915. In 1928, she took part in the search of the Umberto Nobile's dirigible expedition. In 1922-1939, she performed hydrological research in the Arctic Ocean. Named after the Russian 18th century arctic explorer Stepan Malygin. - Wikipedia.

24/04/2019

Soviet Icebreakers - 3.

Icebreaker "Yermak".
Ледокол "Ермак".
Jäälõhkuja "Jermak".

1959.

Ярославский СМХ ф-ка "Маяк".
Jaroslavli tikuvabrik "Majak" (Majakas).

* "Yermak" (1898-1963) was a Russian and later Soviet icebreaker. It was the first polar icebreaker in the world, having a strengthened hull shaped to ride over and crush pack ice. - Wikipedia

12/04/2019

Soviet Icebreakers - 2.

Icebreaker "Sedov".
Ледокол "Седов".
Jäälõhkuja "Sedov".

1959.

Ярославский СМХ ф-ка "Маяк".
Jaroslavli tikuvabrik "Majak" (Majakas).

* "Sedov" was a Soviet ice-breaker fitted with steam engines. She was originally the Newfoundland sealing steamer Beothic (1909) and was renamed after Russian Captain and Polar explorer Georgy Sedov. This icebreaker became famous as the first Soviet drifting ice station. - Wikipedia.

03/04/2019

Soviet Icebreakers - 1.

Icebreaker "Sibiryakov".
Ледокол "Сибиряков".
Jäälõhkuja "Sibirjakov"

1959.

Ярославский СМХ ф-ка "Маяк".
Jaroslavli tikuvabrik "Majak" (Majakas).

* "A. Sibiryakov" was a Soviet icebreaker which was active in the Russian Arctic during the 1930s. She was built in 1909 in Glasgow and was originally the Newfoundland sealing steamer Bellaventure. After being purchased by Russia in 1916, she was renamed A. Sibiryakov, in honour of Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sibiryakov, an Imperial Russian gold mine proprietor. Sunk by German cruiser "Admiral Scheer" 1942. - Wikipedia.