On October 29, 1898, the world's first Arctic-type icebreaker, the Armac, was launched. The heroic icebreaker served faithfully in the Baltic and Arctic regions until 1963! His "biography" includes the rescue of dozens of ships and two world wars. The icebreaker "Armak" is the real "grandfather of the icebreaker fleet", the same one on which Admiral Stefan Osipovich traveled closely "to the North Pole - all the way! Many have heard about its interesting fate, but few know how the icebreaker ended its shift in the Arctic Sea. "Armac" was built in England at the Armstrong Whitworth & Co shipyard according to the design and technical specifications presented by a committee headed by Admiral Sh. O. Makarov and the famous chemist D.I. Mendeleev. Armac became the world's first linear arctic icebreaker, has a huge amount of talent, survived two world wars and made a huge contribution to arctic exploration and shipbuilding development. An island in the Kara Sea was named in his honor, as was the diesel-electric icebreaker that replaced it in 1976. In the late 1950s. The tired steam icebreaker, which had never undergone a single rebuild, was still working in the North Sea. At the same time, the nuclear icebreaker Lenin was already operating in the Northern Sea Route, with which the old man could not compare. During its last navigation in 1962 in the Kara Sea, the icebreaker Armack struck a rocky underwater bank and damaged the hull. The hole did not affect the icebreaker's seaworthiness, and Ermak completed all navigation, returning to its home port of Murmansk, accompanied by the Lenin nuclear powered icebreaker. The last captain of the ship was the venerable Pole Captain Yuri Konstantinovich Khalavnikov. After the celebratory meeting, procedures regarding the Kara Sea incident began. They wanted to condemn the captain of the icebreaker for criminal negligence that led to the accident, but his colleagues stood before his eyes, and the proceedings were stopped.

On October 29, 1898, the world's first Arctic-type icebreaker, the Armac, was launched. The heroic icebreaker served faithfully in the Baltic and Arctic regions until 1963! His "biography" includes the rescue of dozens of ships and two world wars. The icebreaker "Armak" is the real "grandfather of the icebreaker fleet", the same one on which Admiral Stefan Osipovich traveled closely "to the North Pole - all the way! Many have heard about its interesting fate, but few know how the icebreaker ended its shift in the Arctic Sea. "Armac" was built in England at the Armstrong Whitworth & Co shipyard according to the design and technical specifications presented by a committee headed by Admiral Sh. O. Makarov and the famous chemist D.I. Mendeleev. Armac became the world's first linear arctic icebreaker, has a huge amount of talent, survived two world wars and made a huge contribution to arctic exploration and shipbuilding development. An island in the Kara Sea was named in his honor, as was the diesel-electric icebreaker that replaced it in 1976. In the late 1950s. The tired steam icebreaker, which had never undergone a single rebuild, was still working in the North Sea. At the same time, the nuclear icebreaker Lenin was already operating in the Northern Sea Route, with which the old man could not compare. During its last navigation in 1962 in the Kara Sea, the icebreaker Armack struck a rocky underwater bank and damaged the hull. The hole did not affect the icebreaker's seaworthiness, and Ermak completed all navigation, returning to its home port of Murmansk, accompanied by the Lenin nuclear powered icebreaker. The last captain of the ship was the venerable Pole Captain Yuri Konstantinovich Khalavnikov. After the celebratory meeting, procedures regarding the Kara Sea incident began. They wanted to condemn the captain of the icebreaker for criminal negligence that led to the accident, but his colleagues stood before his eyes, and the proceedings were stopped.