Museum-ship at St.Petersburg, June,24 2005
http://www.krasin.ru/eng/history.html
Type: Icebreaker
Built: 1916-1917
At: Armstrong-Whitworth & Co., Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Length: 323 feet (98.5 meters)
Beam: 70 feet, 6 inches (21.5 meters)
Draft: 26 feet (7.9 meters)
Displacement: 8,730 tons
Armament: (in World War II) four 76mm guns, seven 20mm AA guns, 10 large caliber machine guns
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The icebreaker-museum Krasin (the initial name Svyatogor) was built in 1916 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. The Krasin is well known as a rescue-ship, a ship-explorer and pathfinder on the North Maritime Route.

1920 - The Krasin rescued the icebreaker Lenin with 85 persons on board, women and children also.

1928 - The Krasin was the only ship which reached 82 latitude and rescued the expedition of General Umberto Nobile on the dirigable Italia, which had an accident on the way to the North Pole. The pilot of the german airplane UG-1 was the first who found the expedition.

1928 - The Krasin rescued the german passenger vessel Monte Servantes with 1835 persons on board. The ship collided with an iceberg and had been holed.

1933 - The Krasin was the first vessel in the history of navigation in the Arctic, which could reach the northern shore of Novalja Zemlya.

1953 - 1960 - Krasin was reconstructed in Wismar, Germany. Practically all equipment what had been installedis in good working condition now.

Thanks to Immen