"Sedov" is 4-masted steel barque. She was built in 1921 for the shipping company "F. A. Vinnen & Co." of Bremen, one of the largest German shipping companies at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1936 she was sold to "Norddeutscher Lloyd", Bremen and renamed the "Kommodore Johnsen". The new owner modified her to a cargo-carrying training ship. In 1945 British handed over the ship to the Soviet Union as war reparation. She was converted into a sail training vessel of the Soviet Navy and renamed "Sedov". From 1966 "Sedov" used as a training ship under the civil ownership of the Ministry of Fisheries. In 1981, she was reequipped and transferred to the Baltic Division of Training Ships in Riga, Latvia. After the declaration of independence of Latvia in 1991, she was transferred to Murmansk, Russia.