Icebreaker "Sedov"

Captain Badigin

Party Organizer Trofimov

On the anniversary of the drift, we send you and the entire crew of the "Sedov" warm greetings. We are confident that with the Bolshevik fortitude of Soviet people you will overcome all the difficulties on your path and return to the motherland as victors.

We shake your hands, comrades!

On behalf of the CC VKP(b) and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR

I. STALIN, V. MOLOTOV

Pravda. October 24, 1938.