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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.
Spent nuclear fuel removed from sub
The Zvezdochka yard in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, has removed nuclear fuel from the retired submarine “Borisoglebsk”.
The Delta III sub was included in the Russian Navy in 1977. It was formally taken out of service in November 2008 and has since August 2009 been ready for decommissioning and dismantling in the Zvezdochka yard, Regnum reports.
The operation is made as part of the Global Partnership, the international initiative on reduction of retired nuclear-powered objects.
The “Borisoglebsk” has served in the Northern Fleet and has had its base in the closed military town of Skalisty in the Kola Peninsula.
The operation is made as part of the Global Partnership, the international initiative on reduction of retired nuclear-powered objects.
The “Borisoglebsk” has served in the Northern Fleet and has had its base in the closed military town of Skalisty in the Kola Peninsula.
