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    Yermak (Russian: Ермак, IPA: [jɪrˈmak]) was a Russian and later Soviet icebreaker. It was the first polar icebreaker in the world, having a strengthened...
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  • cliff in Perm Krai, Russia Yermak (name) GAZ Ermak, a Russian truck Yermak (1898 icebreaker), a Soviet and Russian ship Yermak Angarsk, an ice hockey team...
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    Yermak Timofeyevich (Russian: Ермак Тимофеевич, IPA: [jɪrˈmak tʲɪmɐˈfʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ]; born between 1532 – August 5 or 6, 1585) was a Cossack ataman and is...
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  • This is a list of icebreakers and other special icebreaking vessels (except cargo ships and tankers) capable of operating independently in ice-covered...
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    This would not be achieved until 1916, when the icebreaker Svyatogor was launched in Newcastle. The Yermak returned to St. Petersburg after the failed expedition...
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    Soviet icebreaker Yermak, was spotted on the western side of the island. When a thick cloud of black smoke was spotted on Yermak, the Soviet icebreaker turned...
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    convoys through the polar region. Rather than being destroyed (like the Icebreaker Yermak) to make way for more modern ships, the Krassin was preserved and...
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    North America in 1898 to study methods in use by railroad ferries in winter. He proposed the world's first polar icebreaker, Yermak, oversaw her construction...
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    together with another large Russian icebreaker, Yermak. After the failed attempt to capture the small Finnish icebreaker Avance from the Russian revolutionaries...
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    multi-year sea ice. The Russian icebreaker Yermak (named after Yermak the conqueror of Siberia) was the first icebreaker able to ride over and crush pack...
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    1861–1862: Otto Paul von Krusenstern's expedition through the Kara Sea on the Yermak 1864: Swedish expedition to Svalbard led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld 1864–1869:...
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    headquarters. By the time the Apraksin was freed from the rocks by the icebreaker Yermak at the end of April, 440 official telegraph messages had been handled...
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  • dedicated entirely to icebreakers and their history. Icebreakers represented by particularly fine models include Yermak (1898), Fyodor Litke (1909),...
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    Baikal. The company built the first polar icebreaker in the world: Yermak was a Russian and later Soviet icebreaker, having a strengthened hull shaped to...
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    Sea, and a cape in Antarctica bear Sedov's name. There was also a steam icebreaker Georgy Sedov. Today, the sail training barque STS Sedov bears his name...
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    Joseph B. Icenhower, USN, Commanding Icebreaker USS Burton Island. CDR Gerald L. Ketchum, USN, Commanding Icebreaker USCGC Northwind. Capt. Charles W. Thomas...
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    Nova. The first Russian expedition was carried out in 1901, when the icebreaker Yermak traveled to the islands. The next expedition, led by hydrologist Georgy...
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    Fram (ship) (category Icebreakers of Norway)
    had spent nearly three years trapped in the ice, reaching 85° 57' N. In 1898, Otto Sverdrup, who had brought Fram back on the first Arctic voyage, led...
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    Southern Cross Expedition, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...
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    Arctic Siberian waters was in 1921, when, from the bridge of the Soviet Icebreaker Lenin, he commanded a convoy of five cargo ships on an experimental run...
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    [Shaman Atangana (ca. 1840–1898) with her husband, renowned hunter Nuktaq (ca. 1848–1898), their adoptive daughter Aviaq (ca. 1885–1898)] that had been taken...
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  • mass spectrometer Stepan Makarov (1849–1904), Russia – Icebreaker Yermak, first true icebreaker able to ride over and crush pack ice Victor Makeev (1924–1985)...
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  • over 450,000 square miles (1.1 million km2) by air. Then in 1954–55, the icebreaker USS Atka made a scouting expedition for future landing sites and bays...
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    Obschestva). In 1902 Kolomeitsev commanded the icebreaker Yermak, one of the world's first true icebreakers. He was promoted to the rank of junior captain...
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    Glavsevmorput Schmidt Aviaarktika Shevelev A. Sibiryakov Voronin Chelyuskin Krassin Gakkel Nuclear-powered icebreakers Lenin Arktika-class icebreaker...
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    several research expeditions to the Arctic region and to Antarctica from 1898 to 1903. In 1895 the first confirmed landing on the mainland of Antarctica...
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    higher-paid post in the colonial service. Archie's own death in the autumn of 1898, after contracting typhoid fever, meant that the whole financial responsibility...
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    separate landings, they crossed the Antarctic Circle on 15 February 1898. On 28 February 1898, de Gerlache's expedition became trapped in the ice of the Bellinghausen...
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    Glavsevmorput Schmidt Aviaarktika Shevelev A. Sibiryakov Voronin Chelyuskin Krassin Gakkel Nuclear-powered icebreakers Lenin Arktika-class icebreaker...
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  • Maria Klenova (category 1898 births)
    Klenova spent most of her time making observations on board the Russian icebreakers Ob and Lena. Her group took oceanographic measurements in Antarctic and...
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