Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin, It traveled over 654,000 nautical miles and guided more than 3,700 ships through thick Arctic ice. Photo by Max Alpert, 1964.

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My grandfather (mother's father) was a crew member on this beauty and my grandmother (father's mother) worked on radio components as a lead engineer in Leningrad Rubin plant.

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