🖼 Icebreaker Krasin

наб. Лейтенанта Шмидта, у 23-й линии

You can go down into the engine room

The icebreaker was built in 1916–1917 in Newcastle, England, at the Armstrong Whitworth yard, under the name ‘Svyatogor’.
The design was an improved version of Makarov's ‘Yermak’, with engines of 10,000 horsepower.
The engineer and future writer Yevgeny Zamyatin took part in assembling the ship in England.
In 1918 the icebreaker was sunk in the Northern Dvina to block the interventionists, but in 1920 they took it away to Britain.
In 1927 the icebreaker was named after Leonid Krasin, the diplomat who secured the ship's purchase back from England.
In the war the Krasin passed through the Panama Canal and went to the Arctic as part of the northern convoy PQ-15.
In the film “The Red Tent” (1969) the Krasin was played by another icebreaker, the ‘Sibiryakov’.