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Publish date: April 24, 2007
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According to the shipyard’s spokeswoman Nadezhda Shcherbinina, the nuclear submarine B-524 Zapadnaya Litsa has been removed from service and is now ready for dismantlement. “According to the G8-Global Partnership of 2002, Canada will finance the dismantlement of 12 Russian nuclear submarines that are not equipped with intercontinental ballistic missiles,” she said. Ottawa is going to pay about 100 million Canadian dollars for the dismantling.
The nuclear submarine B-524 “Zapadnaya Zvezda” (a Victor-III class submarine according to NATO classification) is part of the project “Sсhuka” and was built at the Admiralteysky shipyard in St. Petersburg in 1977. Originally, 3 submarines of this kind were built, with a length of 102 m and a displacement of up to 6.990 tons.
At first, the crew of the K-27 Soviet submarine was unaware anything was awry. As recounted by Vyacheslav Mazurenko, the sub’s chief warrant officer, the K-27 was three days into a five-day test mission in May of 1968, which was meant to precede a two-month, round the world deployment.
The war in Ukraine has put many things on hold. But in this feature for Bellona’s Russian-language Environment & Rights magazine, Viktoria Hubareva, a Kyiv-based journalist and ecologist, shows that Ukrainian environmentalists have their hands full.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.