"KURSK" Lifting Operation

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10.09.2002

Comments of the general public prosecutor of Russia from the dock in Roslakovo
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CNN: Kursk arrives at Russian port
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La Stampa: Russians accomplish operation 14 months after tragedy

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The “silent service” hails a new warrior

04.12.01. 16:46

Super-silent Gepard, awesome new flagship of Russia’s submarine fleet, ceremonially took to northern waters of the White Sea under navy colours today (Tuesday) at a ceremony going some way to easing the wounds of the Kursk disaster and restoring marine service morale. It has been hailed as “Russia’s first nuclear-powered submarine of the 21st century.”

Discharged and disciplined, report says

03.12.01. 13:15

Names and ranks of senior Northern Fleet officers discharged and disciplined were released by the Russian defence ministry’s press service, according to RIA Novosti news agency.

Derelictions at all levels of command, says navy’s number one

03.12.01. 12:58

Russian Navy commander-in-chief Vladimir Kuroyedov said at the weekend that the prosecutor-general’s office had discovered serious derelictions of duty both in day-to-day work and combat training at all levels of command in the Northern Fleet.

Super-silent Gepard signed up for the fleet

03.12.01. 12:24

An official act transferring and commissioning the Russian navy’s first nuclear-powered submarine of the 21st century, the Gepard, was signed at the Sevmashpredpriyatiye industrial plant at Severodvinsk in the Arkhangelsk region of northern Russia today (Monday.)

Deputy fleet commander stands in

03.12.01. 12:09

Vice-Admiral Vladimir Dobroskochenko, a deputy to former Russian Northern Fleet Commander Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, has been ordered to temporarily perform the duties of his previous chief, sources at Northern Fleet headquarters at Severomorsk in Murmansk region told Interfax news agency on Sunday.

Going to graves – the mariners missing for ever

Lost Kursk mariners never to be found will have a symbolic last resting place at a burial ground in Russia’s second city, the “northern capital” of St. Petersburg.

Log book notes no clue as top prosecutor’s team pulls out – search for bodies continues “for several months”

Prospects reported last week that log book details found inside the submarine may give clues to its sinking were put aside at the weekend.

Navy honours sailors laid to rest in their lost boat’s city

Two-thousand-five-hundred kilometres from the Arctic dock where their wrecked boat now lies, eight sailors from the lost submarine were laid to rest on Tuesday in the west Russian city whose name Kursk carried.

Why we took “that chance, that real risk,” by Putin’s minister in charge

Technology was “honed to perfection” in the tightest of timeframes to meet a pledge to president and people that Kursk would be raised this year, the government minister in charge of the project said.

Second blast of “battle-scale” sealed the vessel’s doom, prosecutor’s officials believe

The cataclysmic second of two explosions slightly more than two minutes apart is now considered the likely cause of the submarine’s destruction, the official at the head of the continuing inquiry revealed this weekend. Full story, see Details.

Damaged missiles bound, with Kursk, for secret naval scrapyard

Cruise missiles damaged in the explosion aboard Kursk will be dismantled at the secret Russian naval yard where the scrappers are already awaiting the submarine.