Alexei vostrikov biography

K was the first submarine of the Soviet Union’s Project , the first generation of Soviet nuclear submersibles that carried an armament of nuclear ballistic missiles.

K19 submarine

K19 submarine

Alexei vostrikov k19

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Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev was a Russian submariner and a Captain First Rank in the Soviet Navy, notable as the commander of the ill-fated Soviet.

Russian canoeist.

The vessel was quickly built, due to US submarine developments during the Cold War. On K‘s maiden voyage in July , she suffered a nuclear incident, which earned her the nickname “Hiroshima” and inspired the Harrison Ford film, K The Widowmaker.

K was an unlucky submarine

In the s, the Soviet Union began constructing a nuclear submarine fleet.

Ordered on October 16, and laid down a year later, K was unlucky from the very start. During the vessel’s construction, eight workers died: two were killed in a fire, while six more died after inhaling fumes when gluing rubber lining to a water cistern.

Following construction, two more people died.

An engineer fell between two compartments, while an electrician was crushed to