Location - Murmansk city, Portovy Passage, 25 (pier of the Murmansk Sea Terminal)

The nuclear icebreaker Lenin was built in one year and launched in 1957 at the Marti shipyard in Leningrad. It was the world's first surface vessel with a nuclear power plant.

Two years later, on September 12, 1959, it set off for its first trials from the Admiralty Shipyard.

In June 1971, the nuclear-powered submarine became the first surface vessel to pass north of Severnaya Zemlya.

The icebreaker "Lenin" worked for 30 years and in 1989 was decommissioned and put into permanent mooring in Murmansk. The icebreaker led thousands of ships through the Arctic ice, and itself traveled 654,400 nautical miles, which is more than three times the distance from the Earth to the Moon or equal to 30 revolutions around the equator of the globe.

Today, the nuclear icebreaker Lenin is a museum and the only cultural heritage site of federal significance in Murmansk.
The furniture, interior decoration of the icebreaker and mechanisms have been preserved in their original form. The vessel is equipped with wide passages, a bathhouse, a recreation room, a photo lab, a film projector and a library.

The icebreaker museum offers organized tours of the crew's dining room, power station, medical unit, club room, captain's salon and captain's bridge. During the tour, they visit the wardroom, where famous political and cultural figures were met in different years. Among the guests who visited the icebreaker are Fidel Castro, Yuri Gagarin, US Vice President Richard Nixon, Alexandra Pakhmutova.

On board the nuclear icebreaker Lenin there is also an Information Centre on Atomic Energy and a permanent exhibition “Atom and the Arctic” – an interactive museum and educational complex on the history of the nuclear icebreaker fleet, the development of the Northern Sea Route, industrial development, climatic features and ecology of the Arctic.