Icebreaker Angara Museum

The Icebreaker Angara Museum is a museum in Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia

History
The museum was originally an icebreaker ordered from Sir V G Armstrong, Vitvort and Co. ship company in Newcastle, United Kingdom in 1898. On 1 August 1990, the ship was put into operation and operated in Lake Baikal. It was used by the Soviet Union until 1949 before it underwent 11 years of reparation. In March 1991, the ship was turned into a museum.

Architecture
The ship has an overall length of 60 m, a width of 10.5 m and depth to main deck of 7.5 m.