The operation is going as planned, as the first Victor-I class nuclear submarine was loaded onboard the Transshelf ship.

In total two Victor-I class submarines will be shipped from the shipyard in Polyarny on the Kola Peninsula to Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk, in the Arkhangelsk Region, for dismantlement.

The third submarine, The November class submarine, will be later transported from Gremikha, a former naval base on the eastern coast of the Kola Peninsula, to Polyarny shipyard for dismantlement.