The Arctic as a resource base
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
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Publish date: May 14, 2004
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The US Cooperative Threat Reduction program, or CTR, will finance the dismantling works. Zvezdochkas press secretary Nadezhda Sherbinina told ITAR-TASS that the plant received total over $60m from the CTR program what helped to establish an infrastructure for nuclear submarine dismantling and safe handling of the radioactive materials and waste. Besides, six submarines of Delta-I type have been dismantled. K-447 Kislovodsk (order no.311) was built in 1973 at the Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region. The submarines of this type have 139-m length, 550-m submergence depth, 26 knots speed and a crew of 120 submariners. Kislovodsk could carry 12 ballistic missiles of SS-N-12 type.
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
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