Sibir (1937 icebreaker)
This article is about the 1937 icebreaker. For other icebreakers of the same name, see Sibir (icebreaker).
"Icebreaker Joseph Stalin" redirects here. For the steamer with the same name, see Steamer Tovarishch Stalin.
 Icebreaker I. Stalin on the USSR postage stamp (1940) | |
| History | |
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| Name: |
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| Namesake: | Joseph Stalin |
| Builder: | Ordzhonikidze Yard, Leningrad |
| Launched: | 14 August 1937 |
| In service: | 1938 |
| Renamed: | Sibir, c.1956 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1973 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Icebreaker |
| Tonnage: | 4,866 GRT |
| Displacement: | 11,000 long tons (11,177 t) |
| Length: | 107 m (351 ft) |
| Beam: | 23 m (75 ft) |
| Draught: | 9.3 m (31 ft) |
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| Speed: | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
| Crew: | 142 |
| Armament: | (in World War II) three 76mm guns, seven 20mm AA guns |
| Aircraft carried: | (pre-World War II) three |
| Aviation facilities: | (post-World War II) helicopter deck |
| Notes: | all characteristics (except armament) come from[1] |
The Sibir (built 1938 as I. Stalin) was the first Soviet icebreaker built at a domestic shipyard.
Owing to many delays, it took over two years to finish. It was built at the Ordzhonikidze Yard in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) between 1937 and 1938.
The I. Stalin was the biggest icebreaker of the Soviet fleet at that time. In 1938 it reached the Arctic in its first expedition.
The I. Stalin, freed the icebreaker Sedov on January 18, 1940 between Greenland and Svalbard after it had been drifting as a scientific Soviet polar station for a long time.
See also
References
- Notes
- ↑ "JOSEPH STALIN / SIBIR". shipstamps.co.uk. 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
from Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II
- Bibliography
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