The Kursk’s sinking didn’t kill all of its 118 crew members—at least not right away. One of the ship’s officers, Lieutenant Captain Dmitri Koselnikov, left a note dated two hours after the ...

A high profile submarine accident occurred with the sinking of the Kursk, ... the submarine was classified as a nuclear-powered guided missile submarine. The Kursk was huge at over 505 feet long.

The cruise-missile submarine Kursk suffered a massive explosion and sank after an onboard torpedo accidentally detonated. The accident was the worst naval disaster suffered by post–Cold War Russia.

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 II-class submarine ...

The Kursk Disaster. In August 2000, the Kursk Oscar-class submarine was participating in Russia’s Summer-X exercise when tragedy prevailed.As part of the drill, Kursk was meant to launch a pair ...

Fifteen years after the dramatic sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine with the loss 118 lives in August 2000, lawyer Boris Kuznetsov sees the tragedy as a turning point for modern Russia.

On Aug. 12, 2000 as a result of a catastrophe during a Russian naval exercise in the Barents Sea, the K-141 Kursk submarine sank to a depth of 108 meters. K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear ...

In August, 2000, the Kursk, a giant nuclear submarine, went out to sea off the coast of Murmansk with an undertrained crew and a load of torpedoes that were past their expiration date.

MOSCOW (AP) _ Nine bodies removed from the wreckage of the Kursk nuclear submarine were buried Tuesday in their home cities in ceremonies evoking painful memories of the disaster more than a year ...

Kursk, the submarine-bound adventure game inspired by 2000 disaster that claimed the lives of 118 Russian sailors, is still a bit of a mystery, touting itself as a ‘documentary’ while keeping ...

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 II-class submarine ...