“Lenin”

“Lenin” – a nuclear icebreaker, built in 1957 in Leningrad at the shipyard named after A. Marti to operate on the Northern Sea Route. It was commissioned for fleet operations in 1959. Its length is 134 m, width is 27.6 m, draft is 9.2 m, displacement is 16,000 t, speed is 18 knots, and the crew is 151 people. The nuclear power plant included three nuclear reactors of thermal power of 90 MW each. The thickness of the ice belt in the middle part of the icebreaker was 36 mm, the forebody is 52 mm, and the stern is 44 mm. The sea endurance of the ship was 12 months. The icebreaker was built with the participation of 30 research institutes, 60 design bureaus, and over 250 industrial enterprises. After the completion of sea trials in 1960, the ship came to Murmansk and escorted vessels on the Northern Sea Route. In 1961, the icebreaker delivered a polar explorers and SP-10 equipment to the ice floe at 75°27ʹN and 177°10ʹE in the East Siberian Sea. After that, the icebreaker delivered DARMS...