Word: murmansk
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...chemistry and Arctic science. Two years ago the middle-aged professor led the icebreaker Sibirya-kov to a great Soviet feat: first navigation of the "northeast passage" from Archangel to Vladivostok in one year. Last August he tried it again with the icebreaker Chelyuskin, setting out this time from Murmansk, through the empty wastes of the Barents and Kara Seas. In September the ice pack began fingering the Chelyuskin. Another Soviet icebreaker went to the rescue, turned tail before howling storms. Professor Schmidt and his men began chopping a path in the ice, nudging the Chelyuskin through...