Russian submarine K-456 Vilyuchinsk

Career (Soviet Union, Russia)
Name: K-456 Vilyuchinsk
Namesake: Vilyuchinsk
Commissioned: 1991
General characteristics
Class and type: Oscar II class Submarine
Displacement: 13.400 t, 16.400 t
Length: 154.0 m
Beam: 18.2 m
Draft: 9.0 m
Propulsion: 2 nuclear reactors OK-650b, 2 steam turbines, 2/7-bladed props
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h) submerged, 16 knots (30 km/h) surfaced
Test depth: 300 to 1000 meters [by various estimates]
Complement: 44 officers, 68 enlisted
Armament: 24 x SS-N-19/P-700 Granit, 4 x 533 mm and 2 x 650 mm bow torpedo tubes
Notes: Home port: Rybachiy Nuclear Submarine Base

The K-456 Vilyuchinsk (ex Kasatka) is a Russian Oscar class SSGN of the Russian Navy. It was commissioned in 1991 as part of the Russian Northern Fleet and was transferred to the Russian Pacific Fleet in September 1993. The submarine is currently based at the Rybachiy Nuclear Submarine Base, in Vilyuchinsk, near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

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Oscar I

K-206 Murmansk (ex-Minsky Komsolets) · K-525 Arkhangelsk
Oscar II
Commissioned

K-119 Voronezh · K-132 Irkutsk · K-141 Kursk · K-148 Krasnodar · K-173 Krasnoyarsk · K-186 Omsk · K-266 Orel (ex-Severodvinsk) · K-410 Smolensk · K-442 Chelyabinsk · K-456 Vilyuchinsk · K-150 Tomsk
Not commissioned

K-135 Volgograd  · K-139 Belgorod · K-160 Barnaul