Soviet submarine TK-202
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| Ordered: | ? |
| Laid down: | October 1, 1980 |
| Launched: | April 26, 1982 |
| Commissioned: | December 28, 1983 |
The ТК-202 was a ballistic missile submarine of the Russian Navy, formerly having served in the Soviet Navy as well.
Construction of the ТК-202 was started at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk in 1980 and completed and commissioned in 1983. The then 14-year old submarine was deactivated in 1997, and with funding from the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction programme it was dismantled in 2000.
During her entire service life, ТК-202 was stationed at the Northern Fleet base Nerpichya.
[edit] Naming
During her service in the Soviet era, she never received a proper name, as it was deemed an unsocialistic idea to name individual ships. Several of her sister ships in the Akula class (NATO reporting name "Typhoon") later received names, but the TK-202 and the TK-13 continued to be called by their hull numbers. ТК stands for тяжелая крейсерская (tyazholaya kreyserskaya), meaning heavy cruiser.
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Projekt 941 Akula |
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