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50 LET POBEDY icebreaker

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:18 pm

Built as a nuclear powered icebreaker under yard No 01/705 by Baltiyskiy Zavod at Leningrad now St Petersburg for the Russian Government.
04 October 1989 first section placed.
31 December 1993 launched as the URAL.
Tonnage 23.439 grt, 3.505 dwt., dim. 159.6 x 30.0 x 11.08m., length bpp. 139.8m.
Powered by two water pressure nuclear reactors model TGG-27, 5 OM5 which powered three electro engines total 70.806 hp., three shafts, speed 22 knots.
1994 Due to financially trouble work was halted.
2003 Work commenced.
30 November 2004 a fire broke out on board and after 20 hours the fire crews got it under control.
1996 Renamed in 50 LET POBEDY. The name means 50-Year Anniversary of Victory.
Accommodation for 128 passengers and 140 crew.
Can break ice of 3 meter with a speed of 3 knots.
01 February 2007 trials for two weeks.
12 March 2007 delivered.

11 April 2007 arrived at her homeport Murmansk.
She is the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the world.

From 21 July 2008 chartered by a group of eclipse chasers who observed on 1 August 2008 the total sun eclipse on the North Pole.
She sailed from Murmansk 21 July and arrived at the pole on 25 July 2008, a record for the passage which normally took 7 days.

2009 In service IMO No 91552959 and managed by Atomflot in Murmansk.

Russia 2009 10R sg?, scott?
Sierra Leone 2020 14.500 Le sg?, scott? Although this edition is authorized by the Sierra Leone postal administration, it was not sold in Sierra Leone, but was only distributed to the novelty trade by the Sierra Leone philatelic agency.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_50_Years_Since_Victory and various other web-sites.

Russia issued a label in 2013 that the Russian nuclear powered icebreaker 50 LET BOBEDY travelled to the North Pole with on board the Olympic torch for the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games.
She sailed from Murmansk and made the voyage to the North Pole in about 91 hours.
19 October 2013 the 50 LET BOBEDY arrived at the North Pole.
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