on august 25, 1930, the western coast of severnaya zemlya, one of the most inaccessible archipelagos ocean, was discovered. this was done by soviet polar explorers, participants of our first high-latitude expedition on a steamer. georgy sedov organized everything scientist, polar explorer, georgy ushakov he remembered forever the moment when i saw the long-awaited land in front of me quote. she lay on the map in a narrow strip, reminiscent of an inverted and smeared comma polar explorers. they landed on the island, built a station, carried out a whole range of scientific research on foot and covered 11,000 km on dogs. an instrumental survey was carried out on an area of ​​about 30,000 m². they made an accurate map of the whole archipelago and studied its geology, flora and fauna, and went to the northernmost tip of cape arkticheskie. on this day in 1956 in leningrad, on an atomic icebreaker was laid down at the admiralty shipyard. lenin nowhere in the world such a ship was yet at the beginning it was called project 92, because it was the number of uranus in the periodic table that cr