Storming the polar ice (1932-1979)

Davits on board a ship, a convoy of ships in the ice.

Ships are moving through polar ice.

View of part of the shore and the ship's deck, people at the side.

View of the ship's superstructures.

The icy bow of the ship moving through broken ice.

Breaking ice floes outside the icebreaker.

The ship "Lena" is moving through the ice.

The icebreaker "Sibiryakov" is breaking a path in the ice for the ships following it.

The head of the Soviet Antarctic expedition Mikhail Somov on the observation bridge.

The icebreaker "Mikhail Somov" during the ice drift in the Gulf of Ballen in 1977. The icebreaker is breaking a path in the ice (top).

View of the bow of the icebreaker (top).

The captain of the icebreaker on the bridge.

Arctic landscape.

The bow of the icebreaker, splitting the ice (top).

Ice blocks and ropaks.

The bow of an icebreaker splits the ice.

Ice floes breaking apart near the side of an icebreaker.

The nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin makes its way through the ice in the 1960s.

A view of the icebreaker Lenin.

The hydrographic vessel Eduard Toll makes its way through the Arctic ice.