акула meaning shark nato reporting name typhoon is a class of nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines designed and built by the soviet union for the soviet navy with a submerged displacement of 48 000 tonnes the typhoons are the largest submarines ever built able to accommodate comfortable living facilities for. The typhoon class soviet designation project 941 akula russian. Decades later an international clean up has.
When the soviet union collapsed a vast store of spent nuclear fuel was abandoned in the russian arctic an environmental disaster waiting to happen. While some feel reminded of the demise of the soviet union itself when looking at the crumbling submarine skeletons the more material fact is that the underwater craft could have been a case for recycling back in the 1970s when. A warehouse used for the storage of chemicals was also built on the shore but was apparently abandoned in the 1980s.
List of nato reporting names for ballistic missile submarines. During the cold war nato nations referred to these classes by nato reporting names based on intelligence data which did not always correspond perfectly with the projects see. The submarines in the soviet navy were developed by numbered projects which were sometimes but not always given names.
While all abandoned places have interesting histories this deserted soviet era submarine base has quite the story to tell. Visit insider s homepage for more stories. The soviet era submarine base was converted into a museum in 2003 allowing visitors to step inside its abandoned walls for the first time.
See more ideas about russian submarine submarines nuclear submarine. May 23 2018 explore floyd johnson s board russian submarines on pinterest. Constructed in 1982 the 15 500 ton submarine remained operational up until 2011 where it was sunk due to a fire that broke out on board the submarine.
Considered to be one of the soviet union s most powerful submarines the k 84 was home to 16 ballistic missiles each missile containing four nuclear warheads. But more than 1 000 miles. The archetypal image of eastern european nuclear contamination is the radioactive wilderness of the chernobyl exclusion zone and the abandoned city of pripyat.
Russia is finally slicing up its abandoned radioactive submarines nuclear contamination has been a persistent source of danger along russia s arctic coast.
Abandoned russian nuclear submarines. The soviet union built more than 260 nuclear powered ships during the cold war most of them submarines with the occasional surface ship and even icebreaker. But russia decommissioned more than. The incomplete submarine shelter pavlovskoe formerly known as secret object no 6 stands deserted on the coast of peter the great bay in the primorye region of russia. The concrete structure with its semi circular arches harks back to the times of the cold war when the soviet union and the usa were engaged in a nuclear.
The concrete structure with its semi circular arches harks back to the times of the cold war when the soviet union and the usa were engaged in a nuclear. The incomplete submarine shelter pavlovskoe formerly known as secret object no 6 stands deserted on the coast of peter the great bay in the primorye region of russia. But russia decommissioned more than.
The soviet union built more than 260 nuclear powered ships during the cold war most of them submarines with the occasional surface ship and even icebreaker.
