The Kursk's commanders and most of the crew in the front compartments were killed as two blasts 135 seconds apart sent the mighty submarine to the bottom of the Barents Sea, Ustinov told The ...

The K-141 Kursk submarine K-141 Kursk was part of an 11-sub series of Project 949A Antey vessels, known by NATO as Oscar II. These are large, nuclear-powered oceanic submarines.

On August 12, 2000, during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, the Russian Oscar II-class Kursk submarine mysteriously vanished. Moments after preparing to fire dummy torpedoes at the Admiral ...

Ten Russian children whose lives were shattered by the Kursk submarine disaster were today welcomed to Britain at the start of a week-long holiday. Each child lost their father when the stricken ...

It marks the first time Clinton has spoken out about the disaster, which claimed the lives of all 118 on board Russia's Kursk submarine. An explosion rocked the Russian nuclear submarine on August ...

The tragedy has echoes of the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000, also in the Barents Sea, that claimed 118 lives Two days after the tragedy the defense ministry Sergei Shoigu described the ...

Ceremonies are being held in Russia and on board its naval vessels to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster. The submarine, one of the Russian navy's most ...