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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Fourteen years since Kursk sank environmentalists watch the seas for next catastrophe

Kursk SSNToday, August 14, marks the 14 year anniversary of the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine, which went down after an explosion in a torpedo during Northern Fleet exercises in 2001, killing all 188 crew members on board despite the offers of numerous nations to aid in rescue efforts – which the Russian government rebuffed until it was too late.

Today, Murmansk, and the Northern Fleet submarine bases of Vidyayevo, Gadzhievo, Zaozersk, and Severodvinsk held memorial services dedicated to the anniversary of the vessel’s sinking.

The Kursk, or the K-141, was an Oscar Class cruise missile submarine. It was graved at Sevmash in 1992, and commissioned by the Russian Navy in December 1994. From 1995 to 2000, it was based at the port of Vidyayevo, and was considered one of the most powerful submarines in the Russian northern fleet.

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