The icebreaker Krasin distinguished herself as a rescue ship, an exploring vessel, an armed wartime escort and a pathfinder on the Northern Maritime Route. In the 1920s, she rescued the icebreaker Lenin and a German passenger ship Monte Servantes that had collided with an iceberg and been holed. She also rescued survivors of General Umberto Nobile's ill-fated dirigible Italy expedition to the North Pole. In 1933, Krasin became the first ship to reach the northern shore of Novaya Zemlya.
Today the "Krassin" is fully restored and is a floating museum on the river in St.Petersburg, Russia.
