The Kursk's commanders and most of the crew in the front compartments were killed as two blasts 135 seconds apart sent the mighty submarine to the bottom of the Barents Sea, Ustinov told The ...

The K-141 Kursk submarine K-141 Kursk was part of an 11-sub series of Project 949A Antey vessels, known by NATO as Oscar II. These are large, nuclear-powered oceanic submarines.

(TIME.com Europe) -- Russian divers working from the Norwegian offshore platform Regalia in the Barents Sea, retrieved four bodies from the Kursk nuclear submarine that sank in August. A hand ...

Ten Russian children whose lives were shattered by the Kursk submarine disaster were today ... working on the sunken nuclear vessel, marking sections of the hull where holes will be drilled ...

In August 2000, the Kursk Oscar-class submarine was participating in Russia’s Summer-X exercise when tragedy prevailed. As part of the drill, Kursk was meant to launch a pair of training torpedoes.