What happened almost a quarter of a century ago in the Barents Sea? The K-141 Kursk submarine was a powerful vessel. If its 155-metre hull were to be placed vertically at the spot where it sank ...

What happened almost a quarter of a century ago in the Barents Sea? The K-141 Kursk Submarine was a powerful vessel. If its ...

On August 12, 2000, the world was mesmerised by a tragedy unfolding deep beneath the Barents Sea off Russia. The Russian Navy was carrying out exercises, and one of its submarines, the Kursk ...

Captain-Lieutenant Mikhail Averin prepares for an exercise in the Barents Sea by the Russian Northern Fleet, but things do not go to plan on the submarine Kursk. Show more Captain-Lieutenant ...

What You Need to Know: In August 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk suffered two massive explosions during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, sinking with 118 crew aboard. Caused ...

The Stary Oskol diesel-electric submarine (project 636.3 Varshavyanka ... underwater position at a Northern Fleet range in the Barents Sea. The costal target at the Chizha training range [in ...

TASS/. The Northern Fleet’s search and strike group kicked off drills in the Barents Sea to search for and eliminate a notional enemy’s nuclear-powered submarine, the Fleet’s press office ...

The tragedy has echoes of the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000, also in the Barents Sea, that claimed 118 lives Two days after the tragedy the defense ministry Sergei Shoigu described the ...

In August 2000, the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk sank to the floor of Barents Sea after two explosions in its bow, killing all 118 men aboard. That accident, soon after President ...

What You Need to Know: The 2000 sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea remains one of the worst naval disasters in Russian history. -The nuclear-powered Oscar ...

One of the Northern Fleet’s Delta-IV class submarine sailing the surface of the Barents Sea. (Thomas Nilsen/The Independent Barents Observer) After more than six years of upgrades, the old ...

Kursk is inspired by the unforgettable true story of the K-141 Kursk, a Russian flagship nuclear-powered submarine that sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea in August 2000. As 23 sailors fought ...