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Wednesday 18 September 2019

Russian icebreaker under construction at Leningrad, Russia according to a CIA report dated 15 March 1957

An item reported that at Leningrad [nowadays St. Petersburg], Russia an icebreaker was under construction to be completed by fall 1957 with as station Arkhangelsk. Estimated horsepower was 45.000 hp. The ship was to be stationed at Archangelsk.(1)

Note
1. The nuclear icebreaker Lenin launched at the Baltic Shipbuilding, Leningrad in 1957, completed in 1959 and still existing as museum ship?

Source
The report was published on www.archive.org, document number CIA-RDP80T00246A033200070001-5