The Russian Northern Fleet (Russian: Северный флот, Severny Flot) is an operational-strategic part of the Russian Navy. It is the youngest of the Russian fleet, established in 1933.
The fleet's headquarters are in the closed town Severomorsk, where the main base and administrative centre for several bases located throughout the Kola Gulf are located.
The Northern Fleet is the most powerful of Russia’s four fleets. About two thirds of all the Russian Navy's nuclear force is based there. The fleet consists of nuclear-powered missile and torpedo submarines, missile warships, aircraft carriers and anti-submarine ships. Russia’s only operating aircraft carrier, “Admiral Kuznetsov”, belongs to the Northern Fleet. The flagship of the Northern Fleet is the nuclear-powered large guided missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky.
In 2008, the Russian Navy resumed its presence on the world’s oceans after several years of low activity. Northern Fleet vessels operated in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean Sea.
Another nuclear sub for scrapping
K-496 Borisgleb (sumarines.narod.ru)
The nuclear powered submarine K-496 "Borisgleb" this week made its last trip to the Zvezdochka yard in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, were it will be decommissioned and scrapped.
The dismantling of the vessel will be done with finances from Russian state nuclear power company Rosatom, as well funding from Canada and the USA, Regnum reports.
The vessel - a Kalmar-class (project 667BDR) sub was constructed by the Sevmash company and included in the Russian fleet in 1978. It has been based in the Northern Fleet's Olenya Bay and Saida Bay in the Kola Peninsula, submarines.narod.ru informs.
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Posted by Trude Pettersen (trude AT barents DOT no) [2009-08-20]
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