Sibir (1937 icebreaker)
{{Short description|Soviet icebreaker}}
{{About|the 1937 icebreaker|other icebreakers of the same name|Sibir (icebreaker)}}
{{redirect|Icebreaker Joseph Stalin|the steamer with the same name|Steamer Tovarishch Stalin}}
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| Ship speed={{Convert|15.5|kn}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship crew=142 | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=(in World War II) three 76mm guns, seven 20mm AA guns | Ship armour= | Ship aircraft=(pre-World War II) three | Ship aircraft facilities=(post-World War II) helicopter deck | Ship notes=all characteristics (except armament) come from{{cite web |url= http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5658 |title=JOSEPH STALIN / SIBIR |work=shipstamps.co.uk |year=2012 |quote=from Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II |accessdate=21 January 2012}} }} |
The Sibir (from 1938 to 1956, the Iosef Stalin) was the first Soviet icebreaker built at a domestic shipyard.
Owing to many delays, it took over two years to finish. It was built at the Ordzhonikidze Yard in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) between 1937 and 1938.
The I. Stalin was the biggest icebreaker of the Soviet fleet at that time. In 1938 it reached the Arctic in its first expedition.
The I. Stalin freed the icebreaker Sedov on January 18, 1940, between Greenland and Svalbard after it had been drifting as a scientific Soviet polar station for a long time.
As part of the de-Stalinization of the USSR, the ship was renamed Sibir in 1956.
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061006162340/http://www.tour-land.ru/extr/north_p/eng/hist_ark.shtml History of Russian Arctic Exploration]
Category:Ships built at the Baltic Shipyard
Category:Icebreakers of the Soviet Union
Category:Arctic exploration vessels
Category:World War II naval ships of the Soviet Union
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