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The Curtain was deployed during the period marked by the collapse of the former Imperial Russian Army and the Red Army was just being formed. [2] After initial German successes, in early March a mixture of Red Guards, Red Army, volunteer and partisan forces stabilized the line along the Narva and Dnieper rivers; they formed the beginning of the ...
The first ice floe of the Kara Sea aboard the first trip on the first vessel to transit the region. In 1933 Krassin became the first vessel to reach the inaccessible northern shores of Novaya Zemlya in the history of navigation. In 1938, the Krassin rescued the icebreaker Lenin and her convoy, trapped in ice at the end of the previous summer. [6]
Yermak had been used in the winter of 1899–1900 to set up the first radio communication link in Russia between Kotka and Gogland (Suursaar) island (distance 47 km). In 1900 she came to the aid of the cruiser Gromoboi which had grounded in the Baltic. Between 1899 and 1911 Yermak sailed in heavy ice conditions for more than 1000 days.
The short distance, 3.8 km (2.4 mi), between the Soviet Union (Big Diomede) and the U.S. (Little Diomede Island, state of Alaska) in the Bering Sea became known as the "Ice Curtain" during the Cold War. A field of cacti surrounding the U.S. Naval station at Guantanamo Bay planted by Cuba was occasionally termed the "Cactus Curtain". [110] [111]
Moskva (Russian: Москва; literally: Moscow) was a Soviet polar icebreaker and the lead ship of a series of five diesel-electric icebreakers named after major Soviet cities.
In March 1913, during a particularly severe ice season in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, she was stuck for a week near her regular destination port of Sydney. [ 9 ] From that year, Bruce , together with the new RMS Lintrose , maintained a daily service between the terminus of the Newfoundland Railway at Port aux Basques and Sydney.
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During the 2004–2005 season (Operation Deep Freeze 2005), the United States Antarctic Program hired the Krasin as a secondary vessel to help clear a channel to McMurdo Station [7] because the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star faced a record cut through fast ice of more than 90 miles (140 km).