14 heroes

The Ministry of Defense has published the names of the victims of the tragedy on a submarine in the Barents Sea. What else is known about the tragedy

In the fire, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the following died:

Hero of Russia, Captain First Rank Denis Dolonsky;
Hero of Russia, captain of the first rank Nikolai Filin;
Captain First Rank Denis Oparin;
captain of the first rank Andrey Voskresensky;
captain of the first rank Konstantin Somov;
Captain First Rank Vladimir Abankin;
captain of the first rank Konstantin Ivanov;
captain of the second rank Alexander Avdonin;
captain of the second rank Sergey Danilchenko;
captain of the second rank Dmitry Solovyov;
captain of the third rank Viktor Kuzmin;
captain of the third rank Vladimir Sukhinichev;
captain-lieutenant Mikhail Dubkov;
lieutenant colonel of medical service Alexander Vasiliev.

The Kremlin said that some of the information about the circumstances of the death of submariners on July 1 in the Barents Sea is a state secret and will not be made public . In particular, the authorities do not intend to say on which ship the fire occurred, as a result of which 14 people died . “All this information cannot be in public circulation, it belongs to the category of absolutely secret data. Therefore, it is absolutely normal that this is not disclosed, ”said the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.

The media named the names of the four dead: Denis Oparin, captain 1st rank Andrey Voskresensky and Heroes of Russia captains 1st rank Nikolai Filin and Denis Dolonsky.

The dead crew members of the ultra-small nuclear submarine served in military unit 45707 , which is stationed in Peterhof, Kommersant reported. Part is subordinate to the Main Directorate of Deep-sea Research of the Ministry of Defense and includes a detachment of hydronauts and a research laboratory. At the same time, the officers of the unit serve in Severomorsk, where nuclear submarines are deployed - carriers of midget submarines.

Acting Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov indirectly confirmed this information: "The team was assigned to our military unit and set off on its last voyage from St. Petersburg."

Established in 1976, military unit 45707, a detachment of submariners for the operation of nuclear deep-sea stations, is the naval analogue of the cosmonaut detachment. Upon admission, officers are selected according to the standard of cosmonauts, candidates are selected from among the most promising submariners at the level of a warhead commander or assistant boat commander, notes political scientist Alexei Makarkin . The prestige of service in this elite military unit engaged in secret special operations is extremely high: in total, at least 27 officers have received the stars of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Heroes of Russia in its history.

Now in this part, military counterintelligence officers and military investigators are checking.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting in Severomorsk said that during the fire, submariners were the first to evacuate a civilian specialist from the burning compartment, battening down the hatch behind him to prevent the spread of fire. Shoigu confirmed the death of 14 crew members, noting that "the rest were saved." He did not provide other details.

Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences Konstantin Sivkov said that were rescued . four crew members

According to Forbes magazine sources close to the Ministry of Defense, the AS-31 (Losharik) deep-sea vehicle crashed. He had to perform a standard set of maneuvers: to carry out underwater reconnaissance of the sea relief, and if any technical means were found there, raise them for further study. The cause of the emergency could be problems with one of the batteries that provide power to the device. At the same time, the crew managed to ensure the ascent to the surface and prevented damage to the nuclear plant.

The German magazine Spiegel writes that Losharik was created for special operations. The publication notes that Internet communication between Europe and the United States is carried out using fiberglass cables running along the ocean floor, and NATO has long been concerned that Russian submarines regularly appear near these important data transmission channels.

The sailors “clearly died in the war that Putin has already declared to the world,” says publicist Viktor Shenderovich: “The explorer of the bottom,” the ill-fated deep-sea Losharik, was supposed to cover the global Internet with a copper basin and paralyze the enemy’s switching. Let us be aware that fourteen Russian officers gave their lives precisely for the solution of this problem. They gave their lives for a dangerous hallucination. For feverish military delirium.