Russian Arctic: ice, blood and flame. Preface Dmitry Goblin Puchkov. Dmitry Goblin Puchkov

The famous military historian Svetlana Sumchenko in the book “Russian Arctic: Ice, Blood and Flame” tells about ships that furious the expanses of the Arctic, about their creation, structure and great discoveries, which were made on the first wooden schooners, and then on atomic icebreakers. " Dawn ”,“ Almaz ”,“ Ermak ”,“ Arctic ” - ships of the extraordinary structure and fate, former participants in the wars who had the last battle ─ with the kilometer ice of the Arctic. Work with archival sources, meetings with sailors, eyewitnesses of those events and their descendants, the study of drawings and schemes allowed the author to conduct a deep analysis of the development of the Russian Arctic of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries.