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K-19 was the first submarine of the Project 658 (Russian: проект-658, lit. Projekt-658 ) class ( NATO reporting name Hotel-class submarine ), the first generation of Soviet nuclear submarines equipped with nuclear ballistic missiles , specifically the R-13 SLBM .
Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev (Russian: Николай Владимирович Затеев; c. June 30, 1926 – 28 August 1998) was a Russian submariner and a Captain First Rank in the Soviet Navy, notable as the commander of the ill-fated Soviet submarine K-19 in July 1961 during the Hotel class submarine's nuclear-reactor coolant leak.
A third Russian attempt to rescue the survivors is made, but again the Russian submersible still cannot form a seal and the Russians ultimately and finally agree to foreign assistance. Aboard the Kursk , the crew, in an attempt to raise morale, enjoy a "breakfast buffet", during which a crew member accidentally knocks an oxygen cartridge into ...
A Soviet diesel submarine reaches K-19, with orders to confine the crew aboard until a freighter can pick them up. Vostrikov instead orders an evacuation. Returning to the Soviet Union, Vostrikov is tried for endangering the mission and disobeying a direct order, but Polenin comes to his defense. In all, twenty seven men died from radiation ...
Phantom is a 2013 American submarine thriller film about a Soviet submarine during the Cold War in the 1960s. Todd Robinson wrote and directed the film. It stars Ed Harris, David Duchovny and William Fichtner. The film tells the story of a Soviet Navy submarine captain attempting to prevent a war.
This class of submarine possessed better ventilation and air conditioning systems than any other class of Soviet submarine in World War II. They had amenities such as a bunk for every sailor, small cabins for each officer, showers, electric heaters (this class was designed to operate primarily in the Arctic), and an electric galley.
Kursk was a Project 949A Antey (Oscar II-class) submarine, twice the length of a 747 jumbo jet, and one of the largest submarines in the Russian Navy.. On the morning of 12 August 2000, Kursk was in the Barents Sea, participating in the "Summer-X" exercise, the first large-scale naval exercise planned by the Russian Navy in more than a decade, and also its first since the dissolution of the ...
Russian Project 877 in the English Channel in 2018 A Russian Kilo-class submarine underway on the surface. The Kilo-class submarines are a group of diesel-electric attack submarines designed by the Rubin Design Bureau [1] [3] [4] in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and built originally for the Soviet Navy.