A working model of the steam engine, crew mannequins and a “ship’s rolling” module explain how the icebreaker sailed on Baikal.
A renovated interactive exhibition has opened in the engine room of the icebreaker Angara, a branch of the Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local History. All the equipment now has explanatory labels, and a working miniature model of the steam engine and an interactive module showing how the engine drives the ship have been installed. Mannequins of crew members have been added, based on photographs of real people; one of them is a woman. In the stokehold there is the figure of a stoker, 30-kilogram sacks of coal and a mechanical “ship’s rolling” module.
The icebreaker was built at the Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co shipyard, where the Krasin was also launched; according to the museum staff, similar engines can be seen only on the Krasin in St Petersburg. The exhibition was created in the project “Icebreaker Angara: A New Navigation” with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives.
Source (in Russian): Oblastnaya Gazeta, 21 July 2025.
