The local museum in the small town of Anadyr in Russia's Chukotka region has got hold of something museums in Moscow and St Petersburg would be proud to display: objects from one of the first Russian ice-breakers. It sank more than 70 years ago

Until recently the disappearance of the “Cheluskin” has been shrouded in mystery. On 13 November 1933 it froze in the ice, before sinking on 13 February.
 
For decades it was considered lost.
 
Explorer Iosif Rabinovich remembered using an “inflatable dinghy with a drag” to reach the lost ship.
 
“The seabed is flat in that place; there is nothing else to get caught in. So there was a rope with a float leading down and divers descended with its help,” Rabinovich said.
 
Even when the ship was finally found, specialists weren't sure that it was the Cheluskin.
 
Details of the ship have been sent to Denmark,  where it was built almost a century ago and where it got its original name of “Lena”.
 
“Lena” – or “Cheluskin” is now 50 metres underwater. But some of the things that were on board have been brought to the surface. Among them a tent and a knife belonging to the head of the expedition, Otto Schmidt, as well as the range-finder of the crew's cameraman.
 
But the treasure hunters want more.
 
“There is a legend that there are several crates of vodka down there. If they are found, we’ll drink the vodka with pleasure to the memory of the Chelyuskin crew,” Iosif Rabinovich joked.
 
“But it isn’t the main point, we’re keen on bringing the diving equipment to the surface”.