Geroicheskii Pokhod Cheliuskintsev [Heroic Campaign of Chelyuskin]

Moscow: Izogiz, 1934. Fine. Item #36

A complete set of 34 postcards; Circa. 5,000 copies; Dimensions: 14.5 × 10.5 cm.

SS Chelyuskin [Челюскин] was a Soviet steamship reinforced to navigate through polar ice that became ice-bound in Arctic waters during navigation along the Northern Maritime Route from Murmansk to Vladivostok. 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 and Wain (B&W, 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. The crew members were known as Chelyuskintsy, "Chelyuskinites"

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