Members of the Kara Expedition have begun exploring the A. Sibiryakov, an icebreaker that sunk in the Kara Sea during WW II, Interfax reports.

The exploration of the ice-breaker will be the second stage of the expedition. During the first stage, the participants inspected the Marina Raskova, a steamer in the Soviet naval White Sea-Dikson No. 5 Convoy, and North Fleet trawlers TShch-114 and TShch-118 that were sunk by a German submarine in 1944.

In August 1942, the A. Sibiryakov was travelling from Dikson to a polar station in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. The German cruiser Admiral Scheer sunk the Soviet vessel during Operation Wunderland, which were attacks on Soviet domestic marine convoys.