DE-6234252 The Icebreaker Lenin

Lenin (Ленин) is a decommissioned Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker. It was launched in 1957and was both the world's first nuclear-powered surface ship and the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel. Lenin entered operation in 1959 and worked clearing sea routes for cargo ships along Russia's northern coast. From 1960 to 1965 the ship covered over 85,000 miles during the Arctic navigation season, of which almost 65,000 were through ice. On April 10th 1974 the vessel was awarded the Order of Lenin. She was officially decommissioned in 1989. The icebreaker Lenin was subsequently converted to a museum ship and is now permanently based at Murmansk.

Murmansk (Му́рманск) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, It is located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, close to Russia's borders with Norway and Finland. (Source: Wikipedia)

This postcard came from Lera (7 June 2017) who currently resides in Germany.