The heavy nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser of the Kirov class, project 1144, was designed and built by the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. It is intended to destroy large surface ships and to protect friendly ships from an airborne or submerged adversary.

In response to numerous letters from the readers of our site, we publish a complete set of information, available today, on how the Kursk lifting operation will be conducted.

Physical and operational characteristics of the nuclear-powered Kursk submarine.

Inter-departmental government commission investigating the causes of the Kursk atomic-powered submarine tragedy.

The first major raising operation was performed in Russia in the early 1880s, when divers strapped the ironclad gunboat Rusalka (Mermaid) to powerful pontoons and hoisted it to the surface.

The northern engineering plant, Sevmash, is an industrial complex located in Severodvinsk, northwestern Russia, 35 kilometers from Archangel.

The Kursk submarine still has 22 “Granit” – SSN19 (NATO classification – “Shipwreck”) secret, supersonic long-range cruise missiles for strikes against surface forces on board.

The salvage experts - Smit Tak

Information about criminal proceedings in connection with the sinking of SSN Kursk in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000.

Mammoet Transport BV company: reference material

12 Kursk crewmembers whose bodies have been retrieved and buried

Operation to lift bodies of the crew from SSN Kursk in fall 2000.

Kursk torpedoes