The tragic sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in 2000 remains one of the most mysterious and haunting naval ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...