What You Need to Know: The 2000 sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea remains one of the worst naval disasters in Russian history. -The nuclear-powered Oscar II-class submarine ...

Maj. Gen. Mikhail Gudkov, promoted to deputy head of the Russian Navy just a few months earlier, died in an apparent ...

A Russian nuclear submarine malfunctioned while on operations in the Bering Sea, ... The Kursk is one of the largest submarines in the world. It is 154 meters (about 505 feet) ...

“The Kursk got its name because the city of Kursk was taking care of the submarine, supplying it with food, televisions, videos,” said Igor Kudrik, an expert on the Russian navy from the ...

Alas, 118 sailors of the Russian Navy were killed as the Kursk sank in 350 feet of water on August 12, 2000. How the submarine actually went down was a relative mystery at the time of the sinking.

Deputy head of the Russian Navy, Major General Mikhail Gudkov, is one of the most senior military officers killed since Putin ...

Major General Mikhail Gudkov, a deputy commander of the Russian navy praised and promoted by Russia's president, has been ...

The note was written shortly after the submarine Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea on Aug. 12, ... Russian officials have said the disaster was most likely caused by a collision, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin deliberately hindered international rescue efforts after the Kursk submarine sank in 2000 in order to protect his country's nuclear secrets, Bill Clinton has alleged.

Yet, it was two years ago, in November 2021, that retired Russian Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, the former commander of the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet claimed that the 2000 Kursk submarine ...