Nordic Travel
   Nordictravel.ru / Saint Petersburg / Sights / Ice-breaker "Krassin" eng   fin   rus   ger   it   


Saint-Petersburg. Sights - Ice-breaker "Krassin"

   Sights
   Hermitage and
    Winter Palace
   Peter and
    Paul Fortress
   St. Isaac's Cathedral
   Kazan Cathedral
   Church of the Savior
    on Spilled Blood
   Russian Museum
   Cruiser "Aurora"
   Smolny Convent
   Ice-breaker "Krassin"
   Yusupov Palace
   The Spit of
    Basil's Island
   Pushkin
   Peterhof
   Pavlovsk
Ice-brekaer Krasin The ice-breaker "Krassin" can be named a symbol of the Arctic fleet of Russia. The history of the ice-breaker is closely connected with the history of the country. It was built according to the drawings of the vice-admiral S.O. Makarov in Great Britain at the shipyard «Armstrong and Witworth» in 1916 at the command of the Russian Maritime Ministry. «Svyatogor» was the first name of the ice-breaker.

It is a three-deck ice-breaker with the displacement of 10 000 tons. The ice-breaker is 99,8 meters long and 21,6 meters wide. The maximum speed of the ship came to 15 knots.

The history of the ice-brekaer started on the 31st of March 1917, when St. Andrew's flag was raised on the ship and it became a part of the Russian fleet. In 1918 the ice-brekaer was sunk to occlude the harbour of Arkhangelsk during the Civil war. The ship was raised by the English fleet and wore the ensign of England till 1921. Later it was bought out with the assistance of the ambassador L. B. Krassin. In 1927 the ice-breaker received a new name and became the ice-breaker "Krassin".

In 1928 the ice-breaker participated in a legendary internation mission to rescue the expidition of Umberto Nobile. The ship was one of the 18 ships, which participated in the rescue expedition. In June 1928 the ship started sailing towards the tent the place where the airship of Nobile crashed. The ice-breaker saved 7 members of Nobile's crew at the beginning of July. On the way to Norway the ice-breaker helped the German passenger ship "Monte Servantes" to fix the leaks. After that the ice-breaker went to Norway to get some repairing. Later in August the ice-breaker continued sailing in the Arctic area in search of the airplane with R. Amudsen onboard. The plane disappeared during the rescue mission. In October the ice-breaker returned to St.Petersburg and the crew of the ship was met as heroes.

Within the period of 1929-1941 the ice-breaker participated in many other research and rescue expeditions in the Arctic area. During the WWII the ice-breaker took part in the convoy PQ-15 and safely reached Murmansk. After the war the ship was sent to capital repairing and reconstruction.

In 1972 the ice-breaker "Krassin", being the veteran of the Arctic fleet, was passed over to the Ministry of Geology as a research vessel. In 1992 the Government of the Russian Federation gave the protection certificate to the ice-breaker as a historical monument of state significance. Later the ship was registered as a museum-ship in the Russian museum registry. In 2007 the ship celebrated its 90th anniversary. And in 2008 the ice-breaker celebrated the 80th anniversary since the mission to rescue U. Nobile's expedition.

Nowadays the ice-breaker is docked in St.Petersburg in Lt. Smidt embankment, 23rd line of Basil's Island.

Opening hours:
Open: WE-SU from 10.00 till 18.00 (except for last Wednesday of each month).
Excursions to the engine compartment take place only on Saturday and Sunday.
Closed: Monday, Tuesday

back



  St.Petersburg
  Sights
  Transportation
  Accommodation
  Day Trips
  St.Petersburg Trips
  Destination Photos
   Travel Services
   Russian Visa
   Tickets
   Trip Search
   Offers and Promotions
   Travel Tips
   Photo Gallery
   Destinations
   Karelia
   Moscow
   St.Petersburg
   Kola Peninsula
   Arkhangelsk Region
   Arctic
   Novgorod
   Far East & Kamchatka
   Vologda Region
   Leningrad Region
   Pskov Region
   Golden Ring
   Finland

   Special
   Travel Russia:
    Malie Karely
   Russian Tours:
    Silver Ring


   Copyright © 2001-06 "Nordic Travel"
   
"Nordic Design"
© 2003-06