Russian icebreaker Stalin damaged in German air attack according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 18 January 1942

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An item reported that the Russian icebreaker Stalin was just superficially damaged during the German air attack.(1)

Note

1. Part of Leader-class built in 1937-1938 at the Ordzonikidze yard at Leningrad. In 1938 was she for the first time used in an Artic expedition. On 18 January 1940 freed she the Russian icebreaker Sedov between Greenland and Svalbard. The Sedov was at that moment used as a Drifting Polar Station. In 1940 she and the Lenin assisted the German merchant raider Komet which ship went from Gotenhafen via the Artic Ocean passages and the Bering Straits towards the Pacific. The Komet was in advance disguised as the Soviet icebreaker Semyon Dezhnev and was later renamed Donau.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 18 January 1942 No. 39