Lenin

Lenin is a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker, the first nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world. Launched in 1957, it is both the world's first nuclear-powered surface ship and the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel.
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  • Type: Ship
  • Description: Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker
  • Also known as: “Атомный ледокол ‘Ленин’”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Murmansk railway station and Murmansk Regional Museum of Art.

Railway station
Photo: Дмитрий Луненко, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 480 metres southeast of Lenin.

Museum
Photo: Andrey68, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 690 metres east of Lenin.

Square
Photo: Insider, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Five Corners Square is the main square of , Russia. From 1977 until December 1990 it was formally named "Soviet Constitution Square", but this name never entered wide popular use. is situated 760 metres southeast of Lenin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Murmansk and Min’kino.

Photo: Tom Thiel, CC BY 2.0.
is a city in the extreme northwest of and the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle. It lies in the Kola Bay on the Kola Peninsula, by the Barents Sea.

Hamlet
Minkino is a rural locality in of , , located beyond the Arctic Circle at a height of 1 meter above sea level. Population: 433. is situated 4 km northwest of Lenin.

Hamlet
Photo: sitnikov, CC BY 3.0.
is a rural locality in of , , located beyond the Arctic Circle at a height of 1 meter above sea level. Population: 211. is situated 8 km north of Lenin.

Lenin

Latitude
68.97469° or 68° 58′ 29″ north
Longitude
33.05949° or 33° 3′ 34″ east
Height
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
9GWMX3F5+VQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 544468106
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ship
Wiki­data ID
Q648655
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Lenin” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Ленін”
  • Bulgarian: “Атомен ледоразбивач „Ленин“”
  • Bulgarian: “Ядрен ледоразбивач „Ленин“”
  • Catalan: “Lenin”
  • Chinese: ““列宁号”核动力破冰船”
  • Chinese: “「列宁号」核动力破冰船”
  • Chinese: “「列寧號」核動力破冰船”
  • Chinese: “列宁号核动力破冰船”
  • Chinese: “列寧號”
  • Chuvash: “Ленин”
  • Croatian: “Lenjin”
  • Czech: “Lenin”
  • Dutch: “Lenin”
  • Estonian: “Lenin (jäämurdja)”
  • Estonian: “Lenin”
  • Finnish: “Lenin”
  • French: “Lénine”
  • Georgian: “ლენინი (ატომური ყინულმჭრელი)”
  • Georgian: “ლენინი”
  • German: “Lenin”
  • Greek: “Λένιν”
  • Hebrew: “לנין”
  • Indonesian: “Lenin”
  • Italian: “Lenin”
  • Japanese: “レーニン”
  • Korean: “레닌 쇄빙선”
  • Lithuanian: “Leninas”
  • Polish: “Lenin”
  • Polish: “NS Lenin”
  • Portuguese: “Lenin”
  • Romanian: “Spărgătorul de gheață V. I. Lenin”
  • Russian: “Ленин”
  • Spanish: “Rompehielos Lenin”
  • Turkish: “Lenin”
  • Ukrainian: “Ленін”

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Notable Places Nearby

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