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2 unusual facts about Krasin


Krasin

Krasin Nunataks, a group of nunataks, in the Nye Mountains, Enderby Land, named after the first icebreaker Krasin

Leonid Krasin (1870–1926), Russian and Soviet politician and diplomat


Heroic Deed Among the Ice

Heroic Deed Among the Ice details the mission of the ice-breaker Krasin to rescue the crashed crew of Umberto Nobile's arctic airship "Italia".

Leonid Krasin

Krasin's funeral procession three days later included 6,000 mourners, many of them Bolshevik sympathizers; he was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium before being buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow.


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