Icebreaker "Sedov"

Captain Badigin

Political Commissar Trofimov

On the second anniversary of the drift, we send the entire crew of the "Sedov" a Bolshevik salute. We wish all of you good health, victorious overcoming of all hardships, and a return to the motherland tempered by the struggle against the difficulties of the Arctic.

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, 1939.