КУРСК (K-141) submarine
K-141 "Kursk" is a Russian nuclear-powered missile-carrying submarine cruiser of Project 949A "Antey". Laid down at Sevmash in 1990 [1], commissioned on December 30, 1994 [2]. From 1995 to 2000 - in the Northern Fleet of Russia, basing point - Vidyaevo.
Wrecked in the Barents Sea, 175 km from Severomorsk, (69 ° 40 'N 37 ° 35' E) at a depth of 108 meters as a result of a disaster that occurred on August 12, 2000 All 118 crew members on board were killed. In terms of the number of deaths, this is one of the largest tragedies in the post-war history of the Soviet and Russian submarine fleet.