The painting was created in 1965 in Norilsk. It depicts a Soviet icebreaker. Nikolai Loy worked in Norilsk and presented this painting as a gift to the Murmansk Shipping Company in 1966. The painting was kept in the International Friendship Club at School No. 14, which was under the patronage of the shipping company. In 1989, the school was disbanded and the painting was given to us as a gift.

The painting was executed in a technique rare for the artist. Untitled. Canvas, oil, 40x70 cm, 1965, Norilsk.

Loy Nikolai Pavlovich (1925–2004). People's Artist of Russia. His paintings have been exhibited in more than 150 exhibitions. Reproductions of his works and articles about his art were published in many popular newspapers and magazines: Izvestia, Trud, Ogonyok, Smena, Moskva, Druzhba Narodov, Khudozhnik, Soviet Union and others. Today, N. Loy's paintings and watercolors are in many private collections and national museums in France, Canada, USA, the Netherlands, Japan, Austria, Finland, and Cuba. As prime examples of Soviet painting, N. P. Loy's works were gifted to Fidel Castro, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, and the French Communist newspaper, L’Humanité. In 2002, several of his best paintings were presented to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, by the Governor of Stavropol Krai, A. L. Chernogorov, as a gift. He was born on February 16, 1925, in the city of Molochansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. In 1943, he went to the front and fought until Victory Day. He completed his military service in 1950. As a mature man, he entered the Kharkov State Art Institute, graduating with honors in 1955. Loy arrived in Norilsk in 1960. He founded a children's art school and an art studio in this Arctic Circle city. For many years, he was the chairman of the city's art council and the exhibition committee, and was elected as a deputy of the Norilsk city council. For 20 years, from 1960 to 1980, he worked in the Far North. The Arctic became his creative homeland. He traveled extensively by dog sled, ice reconnaissance planes, reindeer, and the nuclear icebreaker Lenin. He visited Dikson, many polar stations, Severnaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land with his paint box. In 1968, he took a car trip across all the republics of the Soviet Union. For nearly ten years, Nikolai Pavlovich worked in Krasnoyarsk, where he was elected deputy chairman of the board of the Krasnoyarsk Organization and the Union of Artists of the RSFSR, a board member, and a member of the regional exhibition committee. Since 1987, he lived in the city of Slavyansk-na-Kubani. During this time, he opened permanent exhibitions of his works in schools, Houses of Culture, and children's art schools. Over 70 works were donated to the Slavyansk Historical and Local Lore Museum. Nikolai Pavlovich was awarded eleven government awards, the Peace Foundation medal, a "Laureate" gold medal, and commemorative medals for participation in art exhibitions. In 1976, Loy was given the title of "Honored Artist of Russia"; in 2003, for his outstanding contribution to the country's culture, he was awarded the title of "People's Artist of the Russian Federation." He is the only artist with such an honorary title in the North Caucasus.