🎅 Nuclear Icebreaker to North Pole: '50 Years of Victory'/50 Лет Победы 💈

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This is an in-depth film of a voyage through the Arctic Ocean ice to the geographic North Pole on the nuclear powered icebreaker '50 Years of Victory'. Leaving the North Pole, we visited Franz Josef Land before sailing back to Murmansk. Along the way we saw polar bears, walruses, seals and birds.

'50 Years of Victory' (50 лет Победы / 50 Let Pobedy) is the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the world. She is an engineering marvel and is powered by 2 nuclear reactors that produce 75,000 horsepower giving her the ability to break through ice up to 2.8 meters thick or nearly 10 feet of ice.

The 50 Years of Victory has an endurance of 5 years before she needs refuelling with new uranium. The reactors eliminate greenhouse gas emissions that are characteristic of ships burning fossil fuels.

Some highlights:
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00:10 Route to North Pole
01:10 Overview of icebreaker
02:20 Russian aircraft carrier 'Admiral Kuznetsov'
03:18 tugs pull out icebreaker
04:00 sailing down Murmansk Fjord
05:13 Barents Sea
06:18 Franz Josef Land
06:57 Meeting ice barrier
11:19 flightseeing in helicopter
21:20 Neptune arrives
22:33 polar bear swimming
24:31 flightseeing in helicopter
26:47 tour of icebreaker
30:29 North Pole
32:47 ballooning at North Pole
34:27 polar plunge at North Pole
38:04 walrus
40:15 Cape Norway (Franz Josef Land)
44:10 Sedov Station (Franz Josef Land)
49:43 Rubini Rock (Franz Josef Land)
50:53 polar bear stalking seals
52:21 Cape Flora (Franz Josef Land)
1:01:15 passing some Russian Navy facilities in Murmansk Fjord
1:03:26 Tour of Murmansk
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