SS Chelyuskin
Marker: recorded wreck position (Date not recorded).
Key facts
| Name | SS Chelyuskin | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Ship type | steamship | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Nationality / flag | Soviet Union | Wikidata P137 operator → P17 country |
| Operator | Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route | Wikidata P137 operator |
| Sea / ocean | Chukchi Sea | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Position | 68.3014, -172.8278 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
SS Chelyuskin (Russian: «Челю́скин», IPA: [tɕɪˈlʲuskʲɪn]) was a Soviet steamship, reinforced to navigate through polar ice, that in 1934 became ice-bound in Arctic waters during a navigation along the Northern Maritime Route from Murmansk to Vladivostok and sank. 111 people were on board the Chelyuskin, and all but one were rescued by air. The expedition's task was to determine the possibility to travel by non-icebreaker through the Northern Maritime Route in a single navigation season.
It was built in Denmark in 1933 by Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen and named after the 18th century Russian polar explorer Semion Ivanovich Chelyuskin. The head of the expedition was Otto Yuliyevich Shmidt and the ship's captain was V. I. Voronin. There were 111 people on board the steamship, including Soviet cinematographers Mark Troyanovsky and Arkadii Shafran who documented on film the entire voyage, including the rescue. The crew members were known as Chelyuskintsy, with the singular form "Chelyuskinets".
Location
- Recorded position: 68.3014, -172.8278 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: Chukchi Sea
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