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Vintage Soviet Ice Breaker Lenin First Nuclear Powered Ship Pin Badge
Vintage Soviet Ice Breaker Lenin First Nuclear Powered Ship Pin Badge
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- A pretty gold coloured metal badge with a 2.5cm wide badge face and a safety clasp style fastener to the rear.
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Featuring the Lenin nuclear powered ice breaker
- The text reads ICEBREAKER LENIN
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The NS Lenin is a Soviet icebreaker launched in 1957, and is both the world's first nuclear powered surface ship and the first nuclear powered civilian vessel. Lenin was put into operation in 1959.
The Lenin was decommissioned in 1989, because its hull had worn thin from ice friction. She was laid up at Atomflot, a base for nuclear icebreakers in Murmansk, and according to Pravda, repair and conversion into a museum ship was completed in 2005.
