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
North Pole-1
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North Pole-1 was the world's first crewed drifting ice station in the Arctic Ocean, primarily used for research.
Otto Schmidt and pilots of their ANT-6-4M-34R "Aviaarktika" aircraft, a specialized model of the North Pole-1 expedition to the North Pole, from left to right: Ivan Spirin, Mark Shevelev, Mikhail Babushkin, Otto Schmidt, Mikhail Vodopyanov, Anatoly Alekseev and Vasily Molokov, 1937