Wiki Battle Of Kursk Submarine. Ceremonies are being held in russia and on board its naval vessels to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the kursk nuclear submarine disaster. Bbc two 9.00pm wednesday 8th august 2001.
It was built in the 1990s and launched a few years later. But the horror of the august 2000 tragedy โ an armed russian vessel with full payload and personnel exploding and sinking to the seabed โ is vividly caught in kursk: