Russia’s Nerpa shipyard scraps one more submarine
ITAR-TASS
February 27, 2007
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The Nerpa shipyard in the Murmansk region has scrapped another multi-purpose nuclear submarine decommissioned from Russia’s Northern Fleet.

The submarine’s reactor section has already been prepared for transportation and in summer it will be tugged to Russia’s first-ever coastal long-term storage facility in Saida Bay, the shipyard director, Alexander Gorbunov told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

The Norwegian government allocated funds for the submarine’s scrapping within the framework of the global partnership program.

Gorbunov pointed out that Norwegian specialists who visited the shipyard highly assessed the work done by their Russian counterparts.

Since 1994 when the Nerpa shipyard was made the main facility for scrapping submarines on the Kola Peninsula, it has utilized 40 nuclear submarines, 70 decommissioned surface vessels and diesel submarines.