Divers have began piercing the hull of the wrecked Kursk nuclear submarine, with a view to recovering the bodies of 118 sailors who died when the vessel sank in August, Russian Northern Fleet ...

The in-depth story of the Kursk Submarine Disaster. When it was commissioned in 1994, the nuclear submarine K-141 “Kursk” was ...

The operation to recover the bodies of 118 Russian sailors from the Kursk submarine has been postponed until next week due to bad weather, news agencies quoted Deputy Prime Minister, Ilya Klebanov ...

The K-141 Kursk submarine was a powerful vessel. If its 155-metre hull were to be placed vertically at the spot where it sank, it would have stuck out above the water's surface like a 14-storey ...

TASS/. Ukrainian forces are leaving the dead bodies of their European mercenary comrades on the fields of Russia’s Kursk Region, a senior Russian lawmaker said. "True, numerous fallen ...

In the absence of a large-scale conflict for the submarine to display its qualities, the Kursk tragedy remains one of the main events for which the Oscar II class is known. In August 2000 ...

The tragedy has echoes of the sinking of the Kursk submarine in ... a former commander of a nuclear submarine, said authorities have managed to extract only four bodies from the vessel which ...

Ten Russian children whose lives were shattered by the Kursk submarine disaster were today welcomed to Britain at the start of a week-long holiday. Each child lost their father when the stricken ...

It meant that there was no punishment of Northern Fleet officers for criminal negligence over the Kursk disaster. An official investigation found that two explosions had wrecked the submarine ...

A rescue operation is launched in August 2000 to try to save more than 100 sailors on board a Russian submarine grounded at the bottom of the Barents Sea. The Kursk nuclear submarine was believed ...