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Steamer ''Tovarishch Stalin'' (''Comrade Stalin'') was a Soviet freighter of about 3,100 tonnes displacement, active in the Arctic during the 1930s. In 1933 ''Tovarishch Stalin'', under Captain Sergeyev, took part in the first Soviet convoy to the mouth of the Lena River along with the steamers ''Pravda'' and ''Volodarskiy''. The convoy leader, Captain M. A. Sorokin, was on board ''Volodarskiy''. This convoy was led by the icebreaker ''Krasin'' (Captain Ya. P. Legzdin). On the way back, severe ice conditions in the Vilkitsky Strait (between Severnaya Zemlya and Cape Chelyuskin), forced the three freighters to winter at Ostrov Samuila in the Komsomolskoy Pravdy Islands. A shore station was built and a full scientific programme maintained all winter by leader scientist Nikolay Urvantsev and his wife, Dr. Yelizaveta Ivanovna, the expedition's medical officer. These ships were released in the following year by icebreaker ''Fyodor Litke'' after much effort to break a channel through the thick ice. Once freed, the freighters separated and ''Fyodor Litke'' escorted ''Tovarishch Stalin''. Both headed west through the Vilkitsky Strait towards Arkhangelsk. ==References== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steamer Tovarishch Stalin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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