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    Lenin (Russian: Ленин) is a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker, the first nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world. Launched in 1957, it is both the world's...
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  • Soviet Union. Lenin may also refer to: Lenin (1916 icebreaker) Lenin (1957 icebreaker) Lenin (novel), by Alan Brien Çinarlı, Shamkir or Lenin, a village...
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    outposts since the Soviet era. The first nuclear icebreaker was the Soviet vessel Lenin, which was launched in 1957 as the world’s first nuclear-powered surface...
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    Lenin (Russian: Ленин) was a Russian icebreaker originally built in England for the Russian Empire. Launched in 1916, before going into service for Russia...
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  • This is a list of icebreakers and other special icebreaking vessels (except cargo ships and tankers) capable of operating independently in ice-covered...
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    An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and...
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  • mountains of the Kola Peninsula - Khibiny for 3.5 months. The 1957 nuclear icebreaker Lenin was used, which has now been taken out of service 1989 and parked...
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  • megawatts Three OK-150s were used to power the Soviet icebreaker Lenin at the time of its launch in 1957. Later, after damage caused by nuclear accidents in...
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  • submarine; radioactive discharge) Lenin (1965; Lenin-class icebreaker; loss of coolant) Lenin (1967; Lenin-class icebreaker; loss of coolant) K-140 (1968;...
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    that had dissolved the Russian Empire. The new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), the...
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    Siberia, along the Northern Sea Route. NS Lenin was the world's first nuclear icebreaker, launched in 1957 at the Admiralty Shipyard and completed in...
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    Mikhail Somov (category Recipients of the Order of Lenin)
    (both East Antarctica) bear Mikhail Somov's name, as well as a scientific icebreaker. A minor planet 3334 Somov discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos...
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  • Anatoly Alexandrov (physicist) (category Recipients of the Lenin Prize)
    director. On the initiative of Alexandov, power plants for the nuclear icebreakers Lenin, Arktika, and Sibir were developed. Alexandrov was a member of the...
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    also took part in numerous Arctic expeditions. In 1928 he commanded the icebreaker Krasin in a mission to rescue survivors of the airship Italia which had...
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    in reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from the nuclear submarines and icebreakers and from nuclear power plants. Commercially, it produces cobalt-60, iridium-192...
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    Joseph B. Icenhower, USN, Commanding Icebreaker USS Burton Island. CDR Gerald L. Ketchum, USN, Commanding Icebreaker USCGC Northwind. Capt. Charles W. Thomas...
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    1985. During the Cold War Murmansk was a center of Soviet submarine and icebreaker activity. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the nearby city and...
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  • over 450,000 square miles (1.1 million km2) by air. Then in 1954–55, the icebreaker USS Atka made a scouting expedition for future landing sites and bays...
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    Georgy Zhukov (category Recipients of the Order of Lenin)
    Novato: Presidio Press. ISBN 978-0891414698. Uldricks, T. J. (1999). "The Icebreaker Controversy". Slavic Review. 58 (3): 626–643. doi:10.2307/2697571. JSTOR 2697571...
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  • with polymer agent special container with damaged spent nuclear fuel (icebreaker Lenin by the former Soviet Union) Data are from IAEA-TECDOC-1105.: 27–120 ...
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    Arctic Siberian waters was in 1921, when, from the bridge of the Soviet Icebreaker Lenin, he commanded a convoy of five cargo ships on an experimental run through...
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    International Geophysical Year (category 1957 in Antarctica)
    eventually freed with the assistance of the US icebreaker Burton Island but could not resupply the station. The 1957 winterers were retrieved by helicopter,...
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    nine icebreakers, have been built in Russia. Three of these have been decommissioned, including the Lenin. Besides its six nuclear icebreakers, Russia...
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    highlighted a model of the Soviet Union's watercraft vessel Lenin the first nuclear-powered icebreaker, and Soviet automobiles: GAZ-21 Volga, GAZ-13 Chaika,...
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    implementation of Russian foreign policy Other recognitions A Russian icebreaker is named after Chernomyrdin "Dmitry Medvedev appointed Viktor Chernomyrdin...
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    considered such technology to be obvious, but a visit to the Soviet nuclear icebreaker Lenin reportedly "appalled him" and convinced him that he should cancel the...
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    searched for from Akademik Fedorov research vessel, accompanied by nuclear icebreaker Rossiya, using MI-8 helicopters, for a week, until an ice floe with an...
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    nuclear-powered icebreakers that are also used for scientific and Arctic tourism expeditions. However earlier incidents (Lenin, 1957, and Taymyr, 2011)...
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    accompanied by the Canadian icebreakers CCGS John A. Macdonald and CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent. The U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers Northwind and Staten Island...
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    with given the Order of Lenin. A greeting telegram to the pilots was sent by Otto Schmidt, who was at that time on the icebreaker "Litke" and was making...
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