Malygin (1912 icebreaker)

This article is about the icebreaker built in 1912. For other Russian and Soviet icebreakers named Malygin, see Malygin (icebreaker).

History
Name	Malygin
Owner	Soviet Union
Port of registry	Murmansk
Builder	Napier and Miller, Glasgow, Scotland
Launched	1912
Completed	September 1912
Out of service	1940
Fate	Sunk in a storm on 28 October 1940
General characteristics
Displacement	3200 tonnes
Length	78.9 m
Beam	14.2 m
Installed power	12,000 hp
Speed	12 knots
Crew	98

Icebreaker Malygin was a Russian and Soviet icebreaker ship of 3,200 tonnes displacement. She was named after Stepan Malygin.

History

Malygin was built in 1912 as the SS Bruce for the Newfoundland shipping company and sold to Russia in 1915. The ship was originally named Solovei Budemirovich (Соловей Будимирович) after Nightingale the Robber. She was renamed Malygin in 1921. On her maiden voyage as the Malygin, she led the newly founded Floating Marine Research Institute Plavmornin (now called the Nikolai M. Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography) to study the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas, rivers, islands and coastal areas.

Partaking in the Rescue of the Airship Italia

With various other ships and sister ship Krassin (1916 icebreaker) in 1928, Malygin took part in the search of the Umberto Nobile's dirigible expedition. On this journey, Junkers pilot Mikhail Babushkin (Михаил Бабушкин) flew several aerial searches over the Arctic in search of the airship.

In July 1931, Professor V. Yu. Vize led an expedition on the Malygin to Franz Josef Land and the northern part of the Kara Sea. Captain D.T. Chertkhov was in command of the Malygin. Other members included technicians whose mission was to locate a suitable place for a Soviet floatplane base in Franz Josef Land. During this expedition German airship Graf Zeppelin made a memorable rendezvous with icebreaker Malygin at Bukhta Tikhaya in Hooker Island, Franz Josef Land.

In 1937, she took part in drifting expedition together with Icebreaker Sadko and Icebreaker Sedov.

The Malygin sank in a storm near Kamchatka on 28 October 1940 with all 98 people on board while returning from a hydrographic expedition.

Soviet post stamp: Icebreaker Malygin

See also

• Vladimir Wiese
• Mikhail Babushkin(Михаил Бабушкин)

References

• Barr, William (December 1980). "The First Tourist Cruise in the Soviet Arctic" (PDF). Arctic. 33 (4). Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan: 671–685. doi:10.14430/arctic2590. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
• Martin, Robert (January 1929). "Armored Ships Win Thrilling Battles with Polar Ice". Popular Science Monthly, January 1929 Edition: 26–27, 154. Retrieved 2019-09-13. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)