The Soviet Ice Breaker Lenin was both the world's first nuclear-powered surface ship and the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel, excluding a few earlier unsuccessful American and Soviet test ships, which came as a shock to the West, who thought the USSR was still too backward to make such as ship. entered operation in 1959 and worked clearing sea routes for cargo ships along Russia's northern coast for 3 decades.
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