Powered by two water-cooled reactors, the K-3 became a famous symbol for the Soviet underwater warfare capabilities, but the submarine also wrote itself into history for several malfunctions and a terrible lethal fire. navy sub “ Nautilus“ accomplished the first-ever under-ice voyage to the North Pole. That happened in June 1962, four years after the U.S. Commissioned in 1959įirst put on the water more than 60 years ago, the K-3 “ Leninsky Komsomol” was the Soviet Union’s first nuclear-powered submarine.īased in Zapadanya Litsa and sailing for the Northern Fleet, the sub became the first Soviet vessel to reach the North Pole underwater. The floating dock, commissioned at the Zeleodolsk shipyard by the Volga river in 2015, is specially designed for sailing Russia’s inner waterways, including the White Sea Chanel built by Stalin prisoners in Karelia.Īt the Museum of Navy Glory in Kronstadt, K-3 will be re-equipped, the inner rooms will be restored and a glass doom will be built over before the submarine will be opened to visitors.

The historic submarine will in the nearest future be placed onboard the « Sviyaga» floating dock, operated by the Defense Ministry’s Main Directorate for Deep-Sea Research (GUGI) which will sail from the Barents Sea coast via the White Sea and the inner waterways to Kronstad outside St. Nerpa shipyard, where K-3 has been since 2005, is a branch of Zvezdockha.

It is the blog site of the Zvezdockha shipyard that informs about the ongoing preparation for the special voyage.

First nuclear submarine