
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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