Description

Komsomol’ lageria Shmidta (Komsomol Camp Shmidt) is a Soviet propaganda volume that highlights the role of crewmen of the S.S. Cheliuskin who were also members of the Komsomol (Young Communist League) in the rescue of the ship’s crew in 1934. The Cheliuskin left Murmansk for Vladivostok in August 1933 and sailed nearly to the entrance of the Bering Strait before getting caught in the ice in November of that year. The ship then drifted for three months in the pack ice of the Chukchi Sea before suddenly sinking ...