Museum Icebreaker "Angara" - one of the most fascinating and unique museums of Irkutsk. The steam icebreaker "Angara" - one of the first icebreakers in the world and probably the oldest of the vessels of this type surviving.

Even back in 1898 the Russian government has been issued an order to build an icebreaker. Ordering Meets British shipbuilding company «Sir VG Armstrong» Newcastle. The icebreaker was completed in 1899 and delivered in parts of Lake Baikal, where under the direction of engineer-builder V.Zabolotskogo was collected. The ship's crew, with a displacement of 1400 tons and a capacity of 1250 liters machines. force was 50 people. "Angara", launched in late July 1900, with the ferry "Baikal" was intended to ensure the crossing of trains across Lake Baikal, paving the way in the ice. During the 1907-16 biennium. the ship was laid up. With the adoption of the decree "On the nationalization of merchant fleet" icebreaker "Angara" it was also nationalized.

During the civil war ship, armed with guns and machine guns, took part in the hostilities on the shores of Lake Baikal. Since 1922 and until 1960 the icebreaker "Angara" voyages on Lake Baikal, delivering cargo and passengers, towing barges in the winter. Due to improper care and the obsolescence of the vessel was removed from the Navy and transferred to the Irkutsk reservoir for the needs of DOSAAF. In 1975 it wrote off and sent for recycling, but it ran aground in the transition to the port, where it was until 1987. It was then decided that the restoration of the ice-breaker and turning it into a museum.

In November 1990, "Angara" was staged at the pier in front of the Irkutsk district Sunny. The museum exposition is represented by two complexes: history of navigation on Lake Baikal and the History of the icebreaker "Angara". Lead is considered to be the first set.

Currently, the icebreaker "Angara" needed restoration. By the decision of the Arbitration Court of the icebreaker was transferred into the possession of the rescue service of the Irkutsk region, which had planned to conduct a survey of the technical condition of the icebreaker and the necessary repairs.