Explore the tragic sinking of the Kursk submarine in the Barents Sea, a naval disaster that shook Russia and the world.

Former Russian Northern Fleet commander Admiral Vyacheslav Popov has made explosive claims regarding the infamous Kursk ...

The Kursk was a nuclear-powered missile-carrying submarine of project 949A Antei, which the Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering Rubin in Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg) developed at ...

MOSCOW — A retired Russian admiral has alleged that the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster was caused by a collision with a NATO sub, an unproven claim that defies the official conclusion that the ...

Kursk’s conning tower is visible as the submarine is towed back to Roslyakovo, Russia. Like many torpedoes, the Type 65-76As used hydrogen peroxide as underwater fuel.

The note was written shortly after the submarine Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea on Aug. 12, crippled by explosions, with 118 men aboard, Klebanov told the commission investigating the ...

August 2000: Trapped at the bottom of the Barents Sea, 23 Russian sailors waited in vain for rescue. Eighty-eight of their fellow sailors were killed in an explosion aboard the submarine Kursk ...

Could some of the 118 Russian sailors who died in the August 2000 Kursk submarine disaster have been saved? A high-level Russian source tells TIME they could have been if rescue gear aboard the ...

The Russian government has said little about the Kursk nuclear submarine since it sank in the Barents Sea on Aug. 12, 2000, leaving 118 sailors... Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV.

The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk was considered unsinkable. But on August 12, 2000, it sank in the Barents Sea after two explosions, leading to the death of all 118 seamen aboard.

Disagreeing with recent comments made by a Russian environmentalist on the possibility of radiation leaking from the sunken Kursk submarine, a health physicist states that nuclear sub design has ...