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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]
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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
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
Polyarny, Murmansk Oblast (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Russian and Soviet Navy submarine bases" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Basis Nord ("Base North") was a secret naval base of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in Zapadnaya Litsa, west of Murmansk provided by the Soviet Union.The base was part of a partnership that developed between Germany and the Soviet Union following German-Soviet Non-Aggression treaty of 1939, along with a broad economic agreement of 1940.