Russian submarine TK-202

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Career
Ordered:	?
Laid down:	October 1, 1980
Launched:	April 26, 1982
Commissioned:	December 28, 1983
Characteristics
See Typhoon class submarine

TK-202 was a submarine in the Russian and formerly the Soviet Navy.

[edit] History

Hull number TK-202 was laid down at the Severodvinsk shipyards in October 1980 and launched in April 1982. She was the second ship of the Soviet Project 941 Akula class (Russian for shark, NATO reporting name Typhoon). In December 1983, she begun her commission in the Soviet Red Banner Northern Fleet. She was, along with the other Akulas based in Nerpichya Bay, Zapadnaya Litsa.

[edit] Decommissioning

The TK-202 was laid up in July 1999 at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk awaiting decommissioning. With funding from the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, the defueling of her reactors started in June 2002 at the Zvezdochka shipyard.

Typhoon-class submarine

Projekt 941 Akula Dmitri Donskoi (ТК-208) | ТК-202 | Simbirsk (ТК-12) | ТК-13 | Arkhangelsk (ТК-17) | Severstal (ТК-20) | ТК-210 (cancelled)

List of Soviet and Russian submarines List of Soviet and Russian submarine classes