Russian Navy

This section deals with all aspects of Russia’s nuclear navy, from its Northern Nuclear Submarine Fleet to its Pacific Fleet, its practices of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste storage, accidents aboard its vessels and submarine decommissioning.

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March 18, 1997 Russian Navy

Strike in Severodvinsk is temporary stopped

At a meeting held on March 14, the regional committee of the Shipbuilders Labour Union in Archangelsk county decided to…

March 6, 1997 Russian Navy

Short funds slow Russian submarine decommissioning

By the end of 1996, Russian Government debts to the shipyards involved with decommissioning of nuclear powered submarines reached 26…

February 27, 1997 Russian Navy

Strikers blocked nuclear submarine

On February 10, works at three dry docks at Naval Repair Yard no.10 in Polyarny (Murmansk County) were halted. Demanding…

February 19, 1997 Russian Navy

Two Typhoon subs taken out of service

Two strategic nuclear-powered submarines of Typhoon class were prematurily taken out of service recently.

February 19, 1997 Russian Navy

Decommissioning of nuclear submarines at Polyarny

According to Naval magazine "Mosrskoy Sbornik" the accidental nuclear submarine K-192 (Echo-II class), stationed in Polyarny, is to be defuelled…