Taymyr (1909 icebreaker)
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Taymyr was an icebreaking steamer of 1,200 tons built for the Russian Imperial Navy at Saint Petersburg in 1909. It was named after the Taymyr Peninsula.
Taymyr and Vaygach coaling from a freighter at Emma Harbor, 1913
Drifting ice station
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A drifting ice station is a temporary or semi-permanent facility built on an ice floe. During the Cold War the Soviet Union and the United States maintained a number of stations in the Arctic Ocean on
Taymyr (1909 icebreaker)
…and the discovery of Severnaya Zemlya in 1913. Taymyr and Vaygach were considered the best icebreakers in the world at the time. The first scientific drifting ice station in the world, North Pole-1 was established on 21 May 1937 some 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the North Pole by the expedition into the high latitudes…
Soviet drifting ice station depicted on a 1955 stamp.
"North Pole" platform at the outfitting pier of the Admiralty Shipyards, St. Petersburg, July 2022