Today you have a unique chance to have an excursion inside a nuclear icebreaker “Lenin”.
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Part of the forebody
It has been working non-stop for 30 years with a little break in 1967.
Atomic powered vessel is the first surface shi with a nuclear powered-plant. It went to sea for the first time on 3rd December, 1959.
Waiting for the excursion
Here we go aboard!
An elegant anteroom
Coining used to be the popular kind of decoration
Stylish stairs leading to the pilot room and the captain saloon.
Here’s a corridor along the bow side.
Cabins of the crew
The excursion begins with some instruction held in the canteen of the crew.
The decoration style is unmistakable – minimalism of the 60s. No Empire ruching.
During the excursion people can see only 1/20 of all the rooms. These rooms are marked in red. The icebreaker is too large.
On the way to the machine space.
Inside the machine space.
Lots of valves and piping.
Steam generator lower section of the machine space.
Panel aesthetics of the 1950s
The interior of the 3rd upper floor of the steam generator section
The holy of holies: power system command station. From here they control reactors, steam generators, main motors and auxiliary power equipment.
It looks rather modern even today
Parameters status screen of reactor №2
Some industrial aesthetics
Black-buttons symphony
Outpatient clinic of the icebreaker
Medical devices of the 1970s
Minimalistic clock
On the way to the apparatus room
The side door on the way …
The apparatus room itself
The ladders of the icebreaker are rather steep, we doubt if that man on crutches could go downstairs here.
Viewing at Murmansk city from the control cabin
Inside the control cabin
It’s rather spacious and devices here are both from the 1980s and of the earlier times. Navigation equipment was often renewed.
Ship’s numbers and main parameters of the icebreaker
Engine telegraph
Intercommunication devices
A table for maps
This device has an interesting name: “dinazavrik” – a little dinosaur.
The device of 1957
VHF communicator control panel
The device measuring depth
General view of the control cabin
Radio cabin
General view
Some devices
A picture of marchal Zhukov
Entering the captain saloon
The icebreaker was considered to be the symbol of Soviet Union, it was visited by lots of outstanding people: Charles de Gaulle, Fidel Castro, Harold Macmillan, Che Guevara, Josip Broz Tito, Richard Nixon, Indira Gandhi and many others.
Wonderful ladders
A messroom and a musical hall – 2 in 1
Another minimalistic clock
Sculpture of Lenin on the stage of the messroom
Watch bill
“Presence board” at the exit
via periscop
A modern Titanic.
1ST….. cool boat though
beat to it
Very impressive! I love the estetics. One could just muster on the ship and trip to the days of yore…
Why would a man on crutches even want to go down those steps?
sweet
The interiors remind me of Mexican buildings built in the 60′s too. I like that kind of minimalistic aesthetics
That is an impressive ship. Kinda funny though. They have a working, and apparently good, nuclear power power system on this ship. Yet they seem to have missed it on their submarines. They didn’t get those right until later. Makes me think they were done separately.
Very nice. rather posh interior. love it.
Check your facts, the first nuclear powered surface ship was USS Long Beach CGN-9 set sail in July of ’59…full six months before ol’ Vlad here.
Amazing pics, I love the interior! It reminds me of the good old times…
Lenin is a Soviet icebreaker launched in 1957, and is both the world’s first nuclear powered surface ship and the first nuclear powered civilian vessel. Lenin was put into operation in 1959 and officially decommissioned in 1989.
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Quite the feat!
“Study as Lenin studied!” (Pic 66)
Should one die of syphilis just as Lenin did as well?
Good grief….. I think he’s talking about the statue, it’s called “study as Lenin Studied” (um, the “Pic 66″ is a clue, it refers to a photo).
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Think of the people who were getting radiated by obsolete technology for 30 years .
The technology is pretty good, and it’s, enough to be not radiated.
I notice that always write negative posts here.
You have problems, nobody loves you? xD
Hi guys – I work in the British Pathe film archive.
I see that a Polish website discussing this topic is watching one of our videos ‘ICEBREAKER’ -http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=60116 A video of the Atomic Ice Breaker in Leningrad.
It’s great footage of this ship when it was launched.
Thanks,
Jack
I’ll check it out, thanks.
Yep, apparently Russians invented and HDTV too, which is found in the captinan saloon! An impressive boat though!!!
intresting ship
Awesome,great to see her preserved so well.