Steamer Tovarich Stalin

Steamer Tovarich Stalin

Steamer "Tovarich Stalin" ("Comrade Stalin") was a Soviet freighter of about 3,100 tonnes displacement which was active in the Arctic during the 1930s.

In 1933 steamer "Tovarich Stalin" under Captain Sergeyev, took part in the first Soviet convoy to the mouth of the Lena along with the steamers "Pravda" and "Volodarskiy". The convoy leader, Captain M. A. Sorokin, was on board "Volodarskiy". This convoy was led by the icebreaker "Krasin" (Captain Ya. P. Legzdin).

On the way back, severe ice conditions in the Vilkitsky Strait (between Severnaya Zemlya and Cape Chelyuskin), forced the three freighters to winter at Ostrov Samuila in the Komsomolskoy Pravdy Islands. A shore station was built and a full scientific programme maintained all winter by leader scientist Nikolay Urvantsev and his wife, Dr. Yelizaveta Ivanovna, the expedition's medical officer.

These ships were released in the following year by icebreaker "Feodor Litke" after much effort to break a channel through the thick ice. Once freed, the freighters separated and the "Feodor Litke" escorted the "Tovarich Stalin". Both headed west through the Vilkitsky Strait towards Arkhangelsk.

References

* William Barr, "The First Soviet Convoy to the Mouth of the Lena".


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