The icebreaker "Lenin" to be temporarily closed for excursions

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Scheduled repairs will be carried out on the nuclear icebreaker Lenin in the waters of the port of Murmansk from June 15 to July 25, the FSUE Atomflot reported.

The previous technical inspection of the vessel was carried out in 2013.

Since 2009, the exhibition center "Atomic Icebreaker Lenin" has been visited by more than 665,000 tourists. In 2022, 60,000 people visited the icebreaker, and in 2023 – 79,000.

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