About the book: 1940 / In the spring of 1938, three Soviet icebreaking ships with 217 people were trapped by Arctic ice in the Laptev Sea. 184 people were evacuated by plane to the mainland, and 33 remained on ships. In the summer of the same year, an attempt was made to remove the drifting ships from ice captivity. However, due to damage to the rudder, the icebreaking steamer Grigory Sedov was unable to tow the icebreaker Ermak sent to the rescue and was left drifting in the Arctic Ocean. By force of circumstances, the ship with 15 crew members was turned into a mobile research station. Only on January 13, 1940, the Sedov’s drift through the Central Arctic Basin came to an end, when the most powerful Soviet icebreaker at that time, I., was finally able to reach the long-suffering ship in the Greenland Sea. Stalin." Thus, from the day the ship left the port until the end of the drift, 812 days passed…