The Lord of the North (2004)

Summer of 1959. In New York from Moscow landed without landing Tu-114. Meeting of the Soviet delegation at the airport by the Americans.

In the U.S., opened the first exhibition of Soviet achievements.

President Eisenhower at the exhibition.

September 2004. Baltic Shipyard in St.

Petersburg.

Built last national nuclear icebreaker "Ural".

Its construction began in 1989.

1958 started to develop nuclear reactors for submarines.

Combat submarine, cutting in a submarine.

Photo Kurchatov.

Khrushchev's speech.

People walking around Moscow.

Photo V.I.Neganova shipbuilder.

Plan an icebreaker.

Drifting ships in Arctic ice.

Photo Makarov Russian naval commander.

Photos of icebreakers.

Icebreaker "Ermak" built in England commissioned by Russian in 1899.

Beginning of 1959. The Cuban Revolution.

Fidel Castro came to power.

1959. Khrushchev arrived in the United States.

September 15, 1959 launch of the icebreaker "Lenin".

On the deck of the icebreaker and V.I.Neganov APAleksandrov.

Tells R.A.Fedotov, a leading expert on nuclear installations.

Test icebreaker.

Tells V.A.Mizgirev, chief mechanical engineer icebreaker "Lenin".

Icebreaker accepted into trial operation.

Spring 1960. Icebreaker moved around Scandinavia through the Baltic Sea to its home port in Murmansk.

American Chronicle.

Sea trials in the Kara Sea.

Photo Chief Mechanical Engineer A.K.Sledzyuk.

Icebreaker Expedition to the North.

Early 60's.

North becomes the main energy and raw material base of the USSR. Tells N.S.Hlopkin, academician.

North Pole in August 1977. Following launched the atomic brethren "Arctic" and "Siberia." Powerful and sophisticated.

Since the late 70's navigation on the Northern Sea Route was CU.uglogodichnoy.

St.

Petersburg, 2004. Unfinished icebreaker "Ural".

Murmansk, the icebreaker "Lenin" put on eternal parking.

Icebreaker "Lenin" crisscrossing North Ocean.