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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]
The Northern Fleet also damaged a total of 118 transport, military, and auxiliary ships. [9] Soviet submarine K-21, under the command of Captain Nikolai Lunin, attacked the German battleship Tirpitz at 71° 22' 2"N, 24° 34' 3"E. [10] The К-21 logbook reports observation of two torpedo explosions, but no damage is reported by German sources.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Diesel submarines, corvettes, spy ships, minesweepers, landing ships Murmansk naval base Murmansk Oblast HQ, 14th Army Corps. Support ships Mishukovo naval base Murmansk Oblast Spy ships Roslyakovo naval base Murmansk Oblast Support ships Zversovkhoz Murmansk Oblast 420th Maritime Recon Point: Gremikha naval base Murmansk Oblast 160th SPDC PDSS
The repository, constructed in the early 1960s, is a naval base on the shore of the Zapadnaya Litsa bay. It consists of two piers, a stationary mooring bay, a sanitation facility, spent fuel pools in building #5 (unused since 1989), three 1,000 m 3 (35,000 cu ft) dry storage containers, a 40,000-tonne crane, an open-air field for storing spent nuclear fuel containers, a security checkpoint ...
General cargo ship 1 Vologda-50: 2015 Black Sea Fleet Previously named Dadali [237] bought as supply ship for Russian troops in Syria [234] RoRo ship 1 Alexander Tkachenko: 2015 Black Sea Fleet Previously named Robur [238] chartered as supply ship for Russian troops in Syria [239] Longvinik: 23120 Logistic vessel 2 Elbrus: 2018 Northern Fleet ...