''K-211 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy'' is a Project 667BDR ''Kalmar'' class (
NATO reporting name
NATO reporting names are code names for military equipment from Russia, China, and historically, the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and other nations of the Warsaw Pact). They provide unambiguous and easily understood English words in a uniform manne ...
:
Delta III) Russian nuclear
ballistic missile submarine
A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine capable of deploying submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) with nuclear warheads. The United States Navy's hull classification symbols for ballistic missile submarines are SSB and SSBN – t ...
. The submarine was built by
Sevmash,
Severodvinsk in the late 1970s and joined the
Soviet fleet in 1980. The submarine continued to serve in the
Russian Navy as part of the
Pacific Fleet after the collapse of the
Soviet Union. She was decommissioned in 2010 and is currently laid up, awaiting disposal. Her role and those of the other boats of her class is being taken by the new s.
On 28 July 2017 the name ''Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy'' was assigned to the ''
B-274'', under construction as of 2019. From 2017 to 2018
Rosatom undertook the removal of nuclear waste and components, with removal of the reactors complete by December 2018. As of 2019 ''K-211'' is laid up at the
Zvezda shipyard at
Bolshoy Kamen
Bolshoy Kamen ( rus, Большой Камень, p=bɐlʲˈʂoj ˈkamʲɪnʲ, lit. ''large stone'') is a town in the south of Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the opposite side of the Ussuri Bay as seen from Lazurnaya Bay. The town was closed ...
awaiting disposal.
Service
Collision with a British submarine
On 23 May 1981 she collided with the British submarine .
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Delta-class submarines
Ships built in the Soviet Union
1979 ships
Cold War submarines of the Soviet Union
Ships built by Sevmash
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