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These ships departed from Kronstadt on 18 May 1933 and arrived at Murmansk on 5 August. Another destroyer, another patrol boat, another submarine, and two minesweepers joined the flotilla at Soroka in September 1933. Polyarny became the flotilla's main base, and a flight of MBR-2 flying boats joined the unit at Murmansk in September 1935. [6]
The area of Zapadnaya Litsa was originally developed in 1939 as a small naval base for Nazi Germany, at the beginning of World War II, as a result of Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. It was to be used for German ships under the name Basis Nord, but the successful German invasion of Norway the following year quickly rendered the port obsolete. [1]
K-206 Murmansk was a nuclear-powered Oscar-class submarine of the Soviet Navy, and later the Russian Navy. [1] [2] [6] She was the second of the two Oscar I (the Soviet classification was Project 949 Granit) vessels constructed, the other being K-525. A further 11 submarines of an improved class, Project 949A (Antey) (called Oscar II by NATO ...
Russian Shipyard No. 10—Shkval (Russian: Акционерного общества «10 ордена Трудового Красного Знамени судоремонтный завод») is located in Polyarny, Murmansk Oblast, Russia, on the outermost western side of the Murmansk Fjord. In the West, it is more often referred to by the ...
Vidyayevo submarine base Murmansk Oblast Nuclear submarines [25] Murmansk-150 (Zaozersk) submarine base Murmansk Oblast Nuclear submarines [26] Gadzhiyevo submarine base Murmansk Oblast Nuclear submarines [27] Polyarny naval base Murmansk Oblast Diesel submarines, corvettes, spy ships, minesweepers, landing ships Murmansk naval base Murmansk Oblast
Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union: Type: munitions explosions, fire: Deaths: 200–300 killed [3] [4] Non-fatal injuries: Unknown: Property damage: 580 of the Northern Fleet's estimated 900 S-125 Neva/Pechora surface-to-air missiles and 320 of the fleet's 400 SS-N-3 Shaddock cruise missiles. [5]
Map of the Northern Fleet bases. A Russian naval, formerly Soviet, base is located on the shores of the bay. [1] The base supports GUGI (Russian: Главное управление глубоководных исследований (ГУГИ), transcribed as Glavnoye upravlenie glubokovodnikh issledovanii or GUGI) with its objective to operate submarines that are able to dive deep into the ...
The submarine Incident off Kola Peninsula was a collision between the US Navy nuclear attack submarine USS Grayling and the Russian Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine K-407 Novomoskovsk some 150 km (90 mi) north of the Russian naval base of Severomorsk, on 20 March 1993.