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Icebreaker Semyon Dezhnev
Semyon Dezhnev (icebreaker)
Semyon Dezhnev
may refer to one of the following
icebreaker
s named after
Semyon Dezhnev
:
Early in
World War II
Germany
made arrangements with the
Soviet Union
for the
German auxiliary cruiser Komet
to travel the
Northern Sea Route
across the top of
Siberia
, so it could raid allied merchant shipping in the
Pacific Ocean
. As a
ruse de guerre
the Komet disguised herself as the Soviet icebreaker
Semyon Dezhnev
so it could avoid allied detection as it proceeded up the
Norwegian
coast.
Semyon Dezhnev
(1971)
, a Soviet and later Russian diesel-electric icebreaker built in 1971.
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