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the four-masted bark (built in 1921 under the name "Magdalene Vinnen II", since 1936 — "Kommodore Johnsen") in 1945 was transferred to the USSR by Germany as reparations and renamed in honor of the famous Russian polar Explorer Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov.When launching at the shipyard "Germany" in Kiel in March 1921 was named "Magdalena Winnen II" (him. Magdalene Vinnen II) — on behalf of the wife of the founder and owner of the shipping company, as well as the customer of the vessel Friedrich Adolf Vinnen — Magdalene Vinnen (the company's vessels bore the names of family members). At one time the ship was the fourth largest sailboat in the world. In 1936 he was bought by the company "North German Lloyd" and renamed the new owner of the "Commodore Johnson" (him. "Kommodore Johnsen") — named after the legendary captain-Commodore of the company "Happag-Lloyd" Nicholas Johnson — and was converted into a training sailboat. The hull is steel riveted with a forecastle and an elongated yut. Two continuous decks — main and lower. Outer keel bar section 75×250 mm. Mast steel riveted. Mast with mast and The diameter of the fore-mast with topmast is partners — 750, and haselhoff — 460 mm. is currently owned by the Kaliningrad state technical University. Despite its venerable age, it still participates