#50 let pobedy

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Very good news: A Russian nuclear icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy and a cargo ship collided in the Kara Sea, January 2025. Source: Special Kherson Cat

The nuclear icebreaker sustained damage to its left side hull.

[shipwreckguy]

Nuclear Collision: 50 Let Pobedy

Nuclear Collision: 50 Let Pobedy in Kara Sea #shipwreck #icebreaker #russia

Photo: x.com On the night of January 26, the 159 meter long, 3505 dwt nuclear icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy (IMO: 9152959) collided with the 153 meter long, 20,144 dwt cargo vessel Yamal Krechet (IMO: 9202041) in the Kara Sea in the Northern Sea Route off Russia. Reports state the icebreaker was struck by the Yamal Krechet resulting in a large gash on the port bow hull above the waterline. Reports…

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1 B1 Nuclear icebreaker sustained hull damage after collision in the Kara Sea 

A video published by the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel Mash shows how the 50 Let Pobedy sails straight into the cargo vessel Yamal Krechet.  Thomas Nilsen, 28 January 2025 ,  https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/nuclear-icebreaker-sustained-hull-damage-after-collision-in-the-kara-seanbsp/423819 The dramatic collision happened at 03.51 am on the night to January 26 but did not become known to…

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Tanz auf dem Eis: Ballerina zeigt "Schwanensee" am Nordpol

Erstmals in der Geschichte wurde das legendäre Ballett “Schwanensee” am nördlichsten Punkt der Erde aufgeführt – direkt am Nordpol. Während einer Kreuzfahrt auf dem Atomeisbrecher “50 Let Pobedy” (zu — Weiterlesen rumble.com/v5b9xmt-tanz-auf-dem-eis-ballerina-zeigt-schwanensee-am-nordpol.html

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Magyar diákok Putyinért.

Most már magyar diákok is résztvesznek a nemzetközi putyinista propagandában, ugyanis hamarosan egy 16 éves magyar diák utazik az Északi-sarkra. A héten indul Murmanszk kikötőjéből a Rosatom atommeghajtású jégtörő hajója és Putyinék egy 16 éves “pesti srácot”, Varga Leventét, is kiválasztották hogy az Északi-sarkon kitűzze a magyar lobogót.

A propagandaakció a Putyin által elrendelt World Youth Festival (WYF), egyfajta Világifjusági Találkozó keretében történik, azon Putyin eln��k személyesen is résztvett.

A gondosan kiválasztott gyerekek a 50 Let Pobedi atomjégtörőn indulnak útnak, és az egészet a Rosatom cég szponzorálja, akik mint tudjuk Paks 2-őt építik.

A kiválasztott gyerekek Bangladesből, Uzbegisztanból, Kamerunból, Tunéziából stb érkeztek, de természetesen a fehérorosz diktator is kijelölt résztvevőket.

A kampány része annak az erőfeszítésnek amely során “Putyin kommandós” fiatalok arra biztatják társaikat hogy “megszeressék Putyin elnököt"...

Orbánékon kivül egyetlen EU tagország sem vesz részt a szégyenletes akcióban, dehát “Magyarország jobban teljesít”…

Sajnálom Varga Leventét.

Fotók: Varga Levente a Lenin atomjégtörővel, Putyin a fiatalok között és egy Putyin Kommandós…

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Also looking at you, 50 let Pobedy.

(Which, ironically enough, was delayed so long it should have been called 60 let Pobedy. Of course, unless you know Russian you're not going to say the name right anyway, it's always Fifty let Pobedy, or whatever your native language's word for fifty is).

Under absolutely no circumstances should a boat, vessel, or warship's name be a complete sentence. This is one of the few times a thesaurus is helpful. Use it.

[haberyazari]

Rosatomflot’un Buzkıranı “50 Let Pobedy” Fedor Konyukhov’un Kutup Gezisini Destekledi

Rosatomflot’un Buzkıranı “50 Let Pobedy” Fedor Konyukhov’un Kutup Gezisini Destekledi

Ünlü gezgin Fedor Konyukhov, nükleer buzkıran “50 Let Pobedy” (Zaferin 50. Yılı) ile yaptığı tek kişilik kutup gezisini tamamlayarak Murmansk’a döndü. Konyukhov “Temiz Arktik” projesi çerçevesinde gerçekleştirdiği gezide, buz erime hızı, mikroplastik konsantrasyonu ve Arktik Okyanusu tabanının sismik aktiviteleri hakkında bilgi topladı. Arktik ara��tırmaları tarihinde ilk kez yaz ayında yüzer buz…

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Stretching more than 5,550 kilometres from the Kara Sea off the north coast of Russia to the Bering Strait, the Northern Sea Route has long been known to be the shortest passage between Europe and Asia, but shipping potential was limited by the fact that the route became blocked by thick ice in winter.

But the recent experimental voyage of the Christophe de Margerie, an LNG tanker that left Russia fully loaded in early January bound for China, has proven its viability. The ship returned to its home port last week, this time accompanied by the nuclear-powered 50 Let Pobedy icebreaker (no icebreaker was needed on the trip out).

The voyage was the second in the past 10 months for the tanker, which made the identical trip in May, a month earlier into spring than normal.

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Excerpt from this story from Bloomberg:

A tanker sailed through Arctic sea ice in February for the first time, the latest sign of how quickly the pace of climate change is accelerating in the Earth’s northernmost regions.

The Christophe de Margerie was accompanied by the nuclear-powered 50 Let Pobedy icebreaker as it sailed back to Russia this month after carrying liquified natural gas to China through the Northern Sea Route in January. Both trips broke navigation records.

“I am confident that the Northern Sea Route is competitive, that changes in the ice situation and the improvement of marine technologies create new conditions for its development,” said Yury Trutnev, Russia’s deputy prime minister and a member of the supervisory board at Rosatom, the state-owned nuclear corporation that manages the route.

The experimental voyage happened after a year of extraordinarily warm conditions in the Arctic that have sent shockwaves across the world, from the snowstorm that blanketed Spain in January to the blast of cold air that swept through Canada in mid-February, moving deep into the South as far as Texas.

The Arctic is warming more than twice as quickly as the rest of the world and the area covered by ice there has reached historic lows multiple times over the past 12 months. Satellite images show that ice coverage is now 7% lower than the average over the past four decades.

The melting in the region is already in line with the worst-case climate scenarios outlined by scientists, with 28 trillion metric tons of lost globally between 1994 and 2017. The loss is equivalent to a 100-meter-thick sheet of able to cover the whole of the U.K.

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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

First Arctic Navigation in February (Bloomberg) A tanker sailed through Arctic sea ice in February for the first time, the latest sign of how quickly the pace of climate change is accelerating in the Earth’s northernmost regions. The Christophe de Margerie was accompanied by the nuclear-powered 50 Let Pobedy icebreaker as it sailed back to Russia this month after carrying liquified natural gas to China through the Northern Sea Route in January. Both trips broke navigation records. The experimental voyage happened after a year of extraordinarily warm conditions in the Arctic that have sent shockwaves across the world, from the snowstorm that blanketed Spain in January to the blast of cold air that swept through Canada in mid-February, moving deep into the South as far as Texas. The Arctic is warming more than twice as quickly as the rest of the world and the area covered by ice there has reached historic lows multiple times over the past 12 months. The melting in the region is already in line with the worst-case climate scenarios outlined by scientists.

Biden mourns 500,000 dead, balancing nation’s grief and hope (AP) With sunset remarks and a national moment of silence, President Joe Biden on Monday confronted head-on the country’s once-unimaginable loss—half a million Americans in the COVID-19 pandemic—as he tried to strike a balance between mourning and hope. “We often hear people described as ordinary Americans. There’s no such thing,” he said Monday evening. “There’s nothing ordinary about them. The people we lost were extraordinary.” The president, who lost his first wife and baby daughter in a car collision and later an adult son to brain cancer, leavened the grief with a message of hope. “This nation will smile again. This nation will know sunny days again. This nation will know joy again. And as we do, we’ll remember each person we’ve lost, the lives they lived, the loved ones they left behind.” He said, “We have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. We have to resist viewing each life as a statistic or a blur or, on the news. We must do so to honor the dead. But, equally important, to care for the living.”

Texans Needed Food and Comfort After a Brutal Storm. As Usual, They Found It at H-E-B. (NYT) The past week had been a nightmare. A winter storm, one of the worst to hit Texas in a generation, robbed Lanita Generous of power, heat and water in her home. The food she had stored in her refrigerator and freezer had spoiled. She was down to her final five bottles of water. But on Sunday, as the sun shined and ice thawed in Austin, Ms. Generous did the same thing as many Texans in urgent need of food, water and a sense of normalcy: She went to H-E-B. “They’ve been great,” she said, adding with just a touch of hyperbole: “If it hadn’t been for the bread and peanut butter, I would have died in my apartment.” H-E-B is a grocery store chain. But it is also more than that. People buy T-shirts that say “H-E-B for President,” and they post videos to TikTok declaring their love, like the woman clutching a small bouquet of flowers handed to her by an employee: “I wish I had a boyfriend like H-E-B. Always there. Gives me flowers. Feeds me.” For many Texans, H-E-B reflected the ways the state’s maverick spirit can flourish: reliable for routine visits but particularly in a time of disaster, and a belief that the family-owned chain—with a vast majority of its more than 340 locations inside state lines—has made a conscious choice to stay rooted to the idea of being a good neighbor. “It’s like H-E-B is the moral center of Texas,” said Stephen Harrigan, a novelist and journalist who lives in Austin. “There seems to be in our state a lack of real leadership, a lack of real efficiency, on the political level. But on the business level, when it comes to a grocery store, all of those things are in place.”

Hunger in Central America skyrockets, U.N. agency says (Reuters) The number of people going hungry in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua has nearly quadrupled in the last two years, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as Central America has been battered by an economic crisis. New data released by the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) showed nearly 8 million people across the four countries are experiencing hunger this year, up from 2.2 million in 2018. “The COVID-19-induced economic crisis had already put food on the market shelves out of reach for the most vulnerable people when the twin hurricanes Eta and Iota battered them further,” Miguel Barreto, WFP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, said in a statement.

Prison riots in Ecuador leave 62 dead (AP) Sixty-two inmates have died in riots at prisons in three cities in Ecuador as a result of fights between rival gangs and an escape attempt, authorities said Tuesday. Prisons Director Edmundo Moncayo said in a news conference that 800 police offices have been helping to regain control of the facilities. Hundreds of officers from tactical units had been deployed since the clashes broke out late Monday. Moncayo said that two groups were trying to gain “criminal leadership within the detention centers” and that the clashes were precipitated by a search for weapons carried out Monday by police officers.

Mount Etna eruption lights up Sicily's night sky (BBC) Mount Etna is erupting again, and its hot lava fountains are illuminating the Sicilian sky. The eruption began earlier this week, and Etna has since been spewing massive orange plumes of smoke and thick clouds of ash. Etna is Europe's most active volcano, and it erupts relatively often. The last major eruption was in 1992. Its eruptions have rarely caused damage or injury in recent decades - and officials believe this eruption is no exception. Stefano Branco, the head of the National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in the nearby city of Catania, told Italian news agency AGI earlier this week: "We've seen worse."

Cow science (Foreign Policy) A new national exam on cows developed by the Indian government-backed National Cow Commission has been shelved following controversy over its less-than-scientific contents. The curriculum for the test involved erroneous claims about the virtues of Indian cows that were widely ridiculed by the country’s scientific community. Among the “facts” on display: That Indian cows have a special “solar pulse” in their humps which can supposedly convert sun rays into vitamin D that is then passed on to milk, and an assertion that Indian cows are “strong” whereas foreign cows are “lazy.” The issue of cows, considered sacred by Hindus, and their treatment has become even more of a cultural wedge issue in India following the rise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government, with sometimes deadly results. Attacks by vigilante “cow protection” groups killed 44 people between 2015 and 2018 according to Human Rights Watch, with Muslims among the majority of those targeted.

Japan creates Minister of Loneliness to fight COVID-19 suicides (New York Post) Japan just appointed a Minister of Loneliness—to try to combat its exploding suicide rate amid COVID-19. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga named Tetsushi Sakamoto, a cabinet member already trying to beef up the depressed country’s birthrate, to the post. Suga noted earlier this month that Japanese women, in particular, have been struggling with depression since the coronavirus pandemic began about a year ago—with nearly 880 female suicide victims in the country alone in October, a 70 percent increase over the year before, the BBC reported. Japanese suicide expert Michiko Ueda told the BBC that part of the problem involves an increasing number of single women in the country who don’t have stable employment. “A lot of women are not married anymore,” she said. “They have to support their own lives, and they don’t have permanent jobs.”

Facebook Strikes Deal to Restore News Sharing in Australia (NYT) Facebook said on Monday that it would restore the sharing and viewing of news links in Australia after gaining more time to negotiate over a proposed law that would require it to pay for news content that appears on its site. The social network had blocked news links in Australia last week as the new law neared passage. The legislation includes a code of conduct that would allow media companies to bargain individually or collectively with digital platforms over the value of their news content. Facebook had vigorously objected to the code, which would curb its power and drive up its spending for content, as well as setting a precedent for other governments to follow. The company had argued that news would not be worth the hassle in Australia if the bill became law. But on Monday, Facebook returned to the negotiating table after the Australian government granted a few minor concessions.

U.S.-Saudi ties (Foreign Policy) The families of the three U.S. service members killed and 13 others injured by Mohammed Alshamrani, a Saudi airman who went on a shooting spree at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019, are suing Saudi Arabia’s government, alleging that the kingdom failed to screen him appropriately before sending him to the United States for training. The families are filing the lawsuit against Saudi Arabia based on a 2016 law that allows U.S. citizens to sue foreign governments over terrorist attacks—legislation that was initially passed in order to allow the families of 9/11 victims to bring a civil suit against Saudi Arabia.

Italian Ambassador Among Three Killed in Attack on U.N. Convoy in Congo (NYT) For Luca Attanasio, Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, humanitarian work was at the core of his mission. The 43-year-old had moved with his wife to the capital, Kinshasa, in 2017, where their family grew to include three young daughters. He rose to the rank of ambassador in 2019, the pinnacle of his diplomatic career. On Monday, Mr. Attanasio was among three people killed in an attack on a humanitarian convoy near the city of Goma, the World Food Program and Italy’s Foreign Ministry said, the latest in a wave of violence in that part of the central African nation. The deaths of Mr. Attanasio; an Italian Embassy official, named by the Foreign Ministry as Vittorio Iacovacci; and Mustapha Milambo, a driver for the World Food Program, have rattled the international diplomatic community and drawn condemnation from across the globe.

Flood damage and insurance (NPR) Right now, over 4 million houses and small apartments in the contiguous United States are at substantial risk of expensive flood damage, and the cost of flood damage to homes will increase by 50 percent over the next 30 years according to the First Street Foundation. As the climate changes, places that were perfectly safe to live in will no longer be as sure of bets as they once were, and the costs are about to be a serious reality check. The National Flood Insurance Program is $36 billion in debt because of underestimated risks. Over the next several years, FEMA plans to raise rates up to 18 percent a year until prices are accurate, starting this October.

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50 let Pobedy is the latest of the Arktika-class nuclear-powered icebreakers. She spends most of the year escorting convoys and maintaining the NE Passage, but every summer she thunders her way to the North Pole and back five times, proudly following in the footsteps of her sister ship Arktika, which in 1977 became the first surface vessel to reach the North Pole.

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Venta Maersk container ship successfully breaks through ice on Northern Sea Route

With a speed of 11 knots the Venta Maersk sailed through the most difficult part of the Northern Sea Route, in the Russian Arctic.

The Venta Maersk container ship landed on Saturday in Bremerhaven, thus completing the first journey in the history of a cargo ship through the Arctic route.

The brand new container ship designed for voyages in icy conditions in late August set out from Busan, South Korea, and was from 8th September accompanied by nuclear icebreaker 50 let Pobedy through the East Siberian Sea and Laptev Sea (Russian east-Arctic).

It is said to be the first regular container that has crossed the Russian Arctic route.

The icebreaker escort was completed as the ships had sailed into the Laptev Sea on the 11th September, nuclear power company Rosatom informs (in Russian).

Less ice as ship heads west

Ice data from the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute show that there is still more than one-meter thick ice in major parts of the East Siberian Sea, while the whole Kara Sea and practically all of the Laptev Sea is ice-free.

“The convoy successfully proceeded through the Sannikova Strait, which is the shortest route, with an average speed of 11 knots”, says Rosatom Chief of maritime operations Vladimir Artyunyan.

The Venta Maersk is now independently continuing its voyage towards its end destination of Bremerhaven in Germany. It will proceed through the Laptev Sea, and subsequently the Kara Sea (Russian Arctic) and Barents Sea (European Arctic) before it enters Norwegian waters.

The nuclear icebreaker 50 let Pobedy is on course for Murmansk where it is to undergo planned repair works.

The Danish-registered container ship was built in 2018 and can carry up to 3,600 containers.

Northern Sea Route expanding

Several more companies are considering to start test voyages with container ship across the Northern Sea Route.

Russia has major ambitions for the Arctic shipping connection between Asia and Europe. But trans-shipments on the route has been sparse.

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French cruise ship makes rendezvous with Russian nuclear icebreaker near North Pole

Barents Observer, By Atle Staalesen August 20, 2023 The meeting between the two vessels took place in remote Arctic waters not far from the North Pole. Video made by passengers onboard the 50 Let Pobedy and shared on social media shows the two vessels trading greetings and sailing side by side through thick sea-ice. The Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker is on the way to the North Pole as part…

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Rosatomflot’un Buzkıranı “50 Let Pobedy” Fedor Konyukhov’un Kutup Gezisini Destekledi

Rosatomflot’un Buzkıranı “50 Let Pobedy” Fedor Konyukhov’un Kutup Gezisini Destekledi

Ünlü gezgin Fedor Konyukhov, nükleer buzkıran “50 Let Pobedy” (Zaferin 50. Yılı) ile yaptığı tek kişilik kutup gezisini tamamlayarak Murmansk’a döndü. Konyukhov “Temiz Arktik” projesi çerçevesinde gerçekleştirdiği gezide, buz erime hızı, mikroplastik konsantrasyonu ve Arktik Okyanusu tabanının sismik aktiviteleri hakkında bilgi topladı. Arktik araştırmaları tarihinde ilk kez yaz ayında yüzer buz…

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Rosatomflot’un Buzkıranı “50 Let Pobedy” Fedor Konyukhov’un Kutup Gezisini Destekledi