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Name | Borisoglebsk |
Namesake | Borisoglebsk |
Laid down | 23 September 1975 |
Launched | 13 August 1977 |
Completed | 30 December 1977 |
Decommissioned | December 2008 |
Fate | To be dismantled |
General characteristics [1] [2] | |
Class & type | Delta III-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 155 m (509 ft) |
Beam | 11.7 m (38 ft) |
Draught | 8.7 m (29 ft) |
Depth |
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Propulsion | Reactor system OK-700A (two VM-4S (2*90 MW) PWR) powering 2 steam turbines delivering 44,700 kW (59,900 shp) to 2 five-bladed fixed pitched shrouded propellers |
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Range | Unlimited, except by food supplies |
Complement | 40 officers, 90 enlisted |
Armament |
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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. [3] [ needs update ]