Mikhail Britnev
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Icebreaker Pilot on a Soviet postage stamp
Mikhail Osipovich Britnev (Russian: Михаил Осипович Бритнев) (1822–1889) was a Russian shipowner and shipbuilder, who created the first metal-hull icebreaker called Pilot in 1864.
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