LENIN icebreaker 1959

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The LENIN a nuclear-powered icebreaker was built by the Baltic Shipbuilding and Engineering Works at Leningrad, for the Russian Government.
25 August 1956 keel laid down
05 December 1957 launched under the name LENIN.
Tonnage 14.067 gross, 2.820 net, 3.785 dwt., dim. 134.0 x 27.6 x 16.1m., draught 10.5m., length between pp 124.0m.
Powered by 3 reactors (one back-up) geared to four Kirov steam turbines, driving four generators connected to three electro motors, one to the middle shaft of 19.600 bhp., the two outershafts had 9.800 bhp each, speed 18 knots, three screws.
The hull is made of special steel, of 44 till 55 mm. thickness, and all welded together.
By breaking ice of a thickness of 2 meter, she can still make a speed of 2½ knots. Maximum she can break ice with a thickness of 2.40m
Accommodation for 210.
03 Dec. 1959 commissioned. She was the first nuclear powered surface vessel.

Most of the Russian shipping ports are not on open waters during wintertime. And the connections between the Northern ports to Vladivostock are mostly via Suez- or Panama Canal.
Of even greater significance to Russia is its growing reliance on maritime transportation to the remote but resource-rich territories of northern Siberia.
One of the main things for building the LENIN was to operated in the waters of Northern Russia, and keep it open for so long as possible for merchant vessels.
She escorted her first convoy of merchant vessels in 1960, and she made it possible for freighters to service the ports of Dickson and Dudinka on a regular basis.
1963 Got her first refueling.

During 1966 she caught fire (or had a meltdown, the info on this accident is very vague) in her reactors, in which 30 or 33 crewmembers died. Where happened I don’t know.
She was abandoned for a year, and then towed to Murmansk for repair. The Soviets cut away the reactor section of the ship and let it sink in the Kara Sea off Novaya Zemlya, where it still lays today.
1972 Reentered service with two reactors, with a total output of 44.000 shp.

1989 Decommissioned, and then used as a stationary power station in Murmansk.
1992 Her owners given as Murmansk Shipping Co., Murmansk.
There are plans to convert her in a museum ship. So far I know she is deactivated, and her nuclear fuel removed.
End 2006 Same name and same owners. IMO No. 5206087

Lenin is on:
Korea North 1984 20ch MS sg N2460.
Rumania 1959 1le75 sg 2680.
Russia 1958 60 k sg 2217 and 40k sg 2298. Russia 1961 6k sg 2570 and 10k sg 2621. Russia 1965 4k sg 3200. Russia 1978 16k sg 4847.


Sources. Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1959. Blauwe Wimpel. Navicula. Ships of the World by Lincoln P Paine.

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Icebreaker museum moors in downtown Murmansk
2009-05-05


The historical nuclear icebreaker "Lenin" was today towed from the Atomflot
base to the sea terminal in downtown Murmansk. There, the icebreaker - the
world's first nuclear-powered vessel of its kind - will serve as museum,
hotel, conference centre and sport complex.
Vyacheslav Ruksha, head of Atomflot - the base for the Russian
nuclear-powered icebreakers - says the vessel poses no radiation hazard. He
adds that talks are now being held with the Kaliningrad Maritime Museum
about how to organize the museum, Ekho Moscow
reports.

That musem will have exhibits from the Russian Arctic and display the
development of Russian icebreaker transport in Russian Arctic waters.

However, the retired icebreaker will house more than only a museum.
According to Marina Kovtun from the Murmansk regional government, the vessel
will house also a high-standard hotel, a sport complex, a conference hall
and a restaurant, Newsru.com reports.

The "Lenin" was the first ever nuclear-fuelled civil vessel. Construction of
the 19?? ton deadweight and 134 meter long vessel was started in 1956 and the
ship served in the Russian Arctic until 1989.

Ajman 1974 1R N.L.
Mali 2010 1800F sgMS?, scottt? (In margin of M.S.)

The Murmansk Region. The region, bordered by the Barents and the White Seas, is situated in the North-West of European Part of Russia, bordering Norway and Finland. The centre of the Region is Murmansk (founded in 1916). The stamp features the view over the Kolsky Bay of the Barents Sea, on the eastern shore of which lies Murmansk. The centre of the stamp shows the world first civil nuclear icebreaker LENIN built in 1959. On the right there is a detail of the monument to ERMAK icebreaker, an anchor from this famous ship which was built in 1898; a monument to port workers who died during the Great Patriotic War (1967, by G.A.Glukhih), and buildings of the Murmansk Port.
The details and history of the ERMAK are given: http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 183#p18183

Source: http://www.rusmarka.ru/en/catalog/marka ... 13062.aspx
Russia 1998 1r50 sg 6787, scott? (the cargo vessel is not identified.)
Niger 2018 800F sg?, scott?
Russia stationary cover 2009.
Ajman 1973 1R sgMS?, scott?