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.
A naval guard honoured their committal in the grounds of a memorial erected to the dead, as shown in the photographs illustrating this story. The ceremony in Kursk was attended by Northern Fleet commander Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, the widow of Kursk Captain Gennady Lyachin and Kursk region governor Alexander Mikhailov.
