Meeting the pledge, feeling the pressure…
This is a full text of the exclusive interview between strana.ru’s Rosa Tsvetkova and Russian Vice-Premier Ilya Klebanov, President Vladimir Putin’s appointed minister in charge of the entire Kursk salvage operation.
Step by step to what really happened
This is the full text of strana.ru’s exclusive interview with Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov as his investigators begin their inquiries into the sinking of Kursk.
Naval chief reflects on mission which could leave nothing to chance
This is the full text of our interview with Vice-Admiral Mikhail Barskov as he looks back on the lift and considers next stages of the mission.
Believing “officialdom” – the public’s great mistrust
Here follows the full text of a conversation between Alexander Ruzankin, chairman of the Committee for Conversion and Nuclear and Radiation Safety of Murmansk region, and this website’s Roza Tsvetkova.
  Chief "Rubin Central Designing Bureau" Igor Spassky
 Igor Dygalo, aide to the Navy C-in-C and chief of the Navy press service
 Vice-Admiral Mikhail Barskov
“The truth will be known, sooner or later”
Submarines are essentially secret vessels and therefore not only their life but also their death are almost always shrouded in mystery.
Lift techniques most reliable, safest, most economical…
In the following text, Igor Spassky, head of the Rubin Marine Engineering Design Bureau, replies to questions from kursk.strana.ru readers.
‘We must fight for our lives, we must win time!’
Notes written in the darkened stern escape section by Lieutenant-Commander Dmitry Kolesnikov 15 hours after Kursk’s sinking tell of a crew still confident of rescue, the officer twice ticking a list of the names of his fellow crewmen still alive.
Kolesnikov’s papers are now part of the manuscript for a book to be published next month in memory of the crew. Its author, Captain Vladimir Shigin, has been researching available evidence about events after the sinking and has assembled unique material casting new light on the mystery that still shrouds Kursk’s demise.
Here we publish further translated excerpts from Shigin’s forthcoming book, “Empty Moorage.”
The Kursk Accident Report
The Safety Certificate - experts reply to Green challenge
The following text contains Russian technical experts' answers to the Norwegian Bellona environmental organisation's questions regarding safety instructions for the Kursk lift operation.
Charting the weather as Kursk lift approaches
This is the full text of an interview given to a strana.ru correspondent by the Chief of the Russian Navy’s Hydrometeorological Centre, Captain Viktor Kotov, reviewing weather forecasting support for the Kursk lift.
TRANSCRIPT
The following is a transcription of the media presentation made in London on August 8, 2001 to announce the launch of the official website about the Kursk lift operation.
SAFETY CERTIFICATE: Contents
All technical details related to the lifting operation are in this SAFETY CERTIFICATE.
 The Heavy Nuclear-Powered Guided-Missile Cruiser Pyotr Velikiy
The heavy nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser of the Kirov class, project 1144, was designed and built by the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. It is intended to destroy large surface ships and to protect friendly ships from an airborne or submerged adversary.
 How the Kursk Will Be Raised
In response to numerous letters from the readers of our site, we publish a complete set of information, available today, on how the Kursk lifting operation will be conducted.
 Nuclear-Powered K-141 Kursk Submarine
Physical and operational characteristics of the nuclear-powered Kursk submarine.
Commission Investigating the Causes of the Kursk Disaster
Inter-departmental government commission investigating the causes of the Kursk atomic-powered submarine tragedy.
 The World's First Submarine Lifting Operation
The first major raising operation was performed in Russia in the early 1880s, when divers strapped the ironclad gunboat Rusalka (Mermaid) to powerful pontoons and hoisted it to the surface.
 Northern Engineering Plant
The northern engineering plant, Sevmash, is an industrial complex located in Severodvinsk, northwestern Russia, 35 kilometers from Archangel.
 The Secret of the Kursk’s Weapons
The Kursk submarine still has 22 “Granit” – SSN19 (NATO classification – “Shipwreck”) secret, supersonic long-range cruise missiles for strikes against surface forces on board.
 The salvage experts - Smit Tak
The salvage experts - Smit Tak
 Criminal investigation into Kursk tragedy
Information about criminal proceedings in connection with the sinking of SSN Kursk in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000.
 Mammoet Transport BV company: reference material
Mammoet Transport BV company: reference material
 Kursk crewmembers whose bodies have been retrieved
12 Kursk crewmembers whose bodies have been retrieved and buried
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