Name Borisoglebsk Completed 30 December 1977 Construction started 23 September 1975 Length 155 m | Laid down 23 September 1975 Decommissioned December,2008 Launched 13 August 1977 Beam 12 m | |
Class and type Delta III-class submarine | ||
K-496 Borisoglebsk is a Russian advanced Delta III SSBN nuclear submarine. On 21 June 2005 the vessel served as the launch platform for a missile carrying a payload containing a solar sail experiment, Cosmos 1. The submarine was based in the Russian Northern Fleet. In early December 2008 Borisoglebsk was decommissioned from the fleet and was getting ready to be scrapped.
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