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Russian submarine Murmansk (K 206)

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Laid down
  
22 April 1979

Construction started
  
22 April 1979

Length
  
143 m

Builder
  
Sevmash

Commissioned
  
30 November 1983

Launched
  
10 December 1982

Draft
  
9 m

Name
  
K-206 from 14 April 1987 K-206 Murmansk from 6 April 1993.

Namesake
  
Russian port of Murmansk

Decommissioned
  
1996 (in reserve in 1994)

Fate
  
Scrapped January 2004. Scrapping completed 2006.

K-206 Murmansk was a nuclear-powered Oscar-class submarine of the Soviet Navy, and later the Russian Navy. She was the second of the two Oscar I (the Soviet classification was Project 949 Granit) vessels constructed, the other being K-525. A further 11 submarines of an improved class, Project 949A (Antey) (called Oscar II by NATO), were subsequently constructed.

The vessel was placed in reserve in 1994, and decommissioned in 1996. Scrapping of the boats at Sevmash started in January 2004, funded by the British Government under the Cooperative Threat Reduction program. They had been reduced to a three-compartment unit (of the original ten watertight compartments) by 2006.

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Russian submarine Murmansk (K-206) Wikipedia