Russian submarine Borisoglebsk (K-496)

History

Soviet Union, Russia
Name:	Borisoglebsk
Laid down:	23 September 1975
Launched:	13 August 1977
Completed:	30 December 1977
Decommissioned:	December,2008
General characteristics
Class & type:	Delta III-class submarine

K-496 Borisoglebsk is a Russian advanced Delta III SSBN nuclear submarine. On 21 June 2005 the vessel served as the launch platform for a missile carrying a payload containing a solar sail experiment, Cosmos 1. The submarine was based in the Russian Northern Fleet. In early December 2008 Borisoglebsk was decommissioned from the fleet and was getting ready to be scrapped.^[1]

Sources

Russian Media Monitoring Agency – http://www.wps.ru/en/products/pp/kursk/2000/09/12/01.html
GlobalSecurity.org – http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/667BDR.htm

References

↑ Началась утилизация АПЛ «Борисоглебск» (Russian)

Delta-class submarine

Delta I	K-171 K-279 K-336 K-385 K-417 Kislovodsk (K-447) K-450 K-457 K-460 K-465 K-472 K-475 K-477 K-497 K-500 K-512 K-523 K-530

Delta II	K-92 K-187 K-193 K-421

Delta III	Ryazan (K-44) K-129 K-180 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy (K-211) Podolsk (K-223) K-421 Svyatoy Georgiy Pobedonosets (K-433) K-441 K-449 K-455 K-487 K-490 Borisoglebsk (K-496) Zelenograd (K-506)

Delta IV	Karelia (K-18) Verkhoturye (K-51) BS-64 Ekaterinburg (K-84) Tula (K-114) Bryansk (K-117) Novomoskovsk (K-407)

List of Soviet and Russian submarines List of Soviet and Russian submarine classes

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