Inside Russia’s Historic Nuclear Icebreaker ‘Lenin’ | Soviet Arctic Giant Turned Museum

Inside Russia’s Historic Nuclear Icebreaker ‘Lenin’ | Soviet Arctic Giant Turned Museum

Published : Aug 04, 2026, 03:16 PM IST

Step inside Russia’s legendary nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin, the world's first civilian nuclear-powered surface ship. Commissioned in 1959, it spent three decades navigating the frozen Arctic, leading thousands of vessels through thick ice before becoming a floating museum in Murmansk.