Icebreaker Krasin and the Submarine Narodovolets

⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 4.2 km🍽 1📍 3 stops

🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

The icebreaker that rescued the Nobile expedition and a 1920s submarine on the shore — maritime history next to Sevkabel. A family restaurant with a play town at the end.

👶 With kids🏛 History and architecture⏱ An hour or so

👶 7–12, 13+ years · ✗ hard with a stroller

Krasin and the Narodovolets submarine have steep gangways and narrow hatches — you can't get through with a stroller or a small child in your arms. The Naval Museum is accessible.

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🖼 Icebreaker Krasin
наб. Лейтенанта Шмидта, у 23-й линии
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You can go down into the engine room
The icebreaker that rescued the Nobile expedition
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© Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
© Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 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’.
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🖼 Submarine D-2 Narodovolets
Шкиперский проток, 10
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One of the first Soviet submarines, raised ashore; you can walk through its compartments.
A 1920s submarine on the shore; going inside is by guided tour and takes about another hour.
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© Steven Pavlov · CC BY-SA 4.0
© Алексей Решетников · CC BY 3.0
© Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
- The submarine was laid down on 5 March 1927 at the Baltic Shipyard and launched on 19 May 1929.
- In 1933 Narodovolets went through the White Sea–Baltic Canal and joined the Northern Fleet.
- On 19 October 1942 D-2 torpedoed and badly damaged the ferry Deutschland, which sailed between Sassnitz and Trelleborg.
- During the war the submarine made four combat patrols and fired 19 torpedoes in 12 attacks.
- It was set on the bank of the Shkipersky Canal as a museum in 1989.
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🍽 Deti na Kukhne family restaurant at Sevkabel Port · 🧸 play area
Кожевенная линия, 40, Севкабель Порт (Детский этаж)
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At Sevkabel Port, 2nd floor of the kids' building: a play town with a nanny, a cloakroom and space for strollers; book a table at weekends in the daytime.
🍴 A family restaurant with a bay view and a big play village right in the dining room: kids play in plain sight, a nanny keeps watch, entry to the play area is free; there is also a cooking school for children. What to order: chicken nuggets for the kids, an assortment of bruschetta and salmon with orzo for the grown-ups.