During testing of the nuclear submarine strategic missile cruiser " Ekaterinburg ", a boiler explosion occurred in the ship's galley. The tests were carried out after repairs, which had just been completed at the Zvezdochka ship repair center in Severodvinsk . As a source in the Russian shipbuilding industry told Interfax explosion Zvezdochka was injured in the , an employee of . “ The submarine returned to base, the victim was taken to a medical facility, there is no threat to his life,” he clarified.

The incident occurred during the second test run of the submarine at sea, Interfax reports . Its transfer to the fleet was planned for December 20.

The victim, a member of the delivery team, twisted his leg, clarifies 1 Rossiyskaya Gazeta, citing a source close to the Zvezdochka enterprise . According to him, the waste disposal boiler was under pressure, and the lid of the boiler was torn off due to improper handling of the equipment. The nuclear submarine returned to Severodvinsk to continue testing sonar equipment.

The Central Naval Portal reported 2 about the incident during the exercise on November 24. According to his information, the submarine’s first sailing after repairs began in mid-November. press service Then the Zvezdochka said that the cruiser would spend about three weeks testing.

TASS, citing the head of the Zvezdochka press service, Nadezhda Shcherbinina, reported only on November 25 that the Ekaterinburg nuclear submarine went to sea for the second stage of ship trials. In an interview with the agency, Shcherbinina said that the first stage of testing, which began on November 14 and lasted about a week, was successful. “ All the comments identified during the sea voyage have been eliminated,” said a representative of the shipyard. “A total of three test launches are planned, but their number depends on how successfully the submarine will pass tests at sea.”

In December 2011, during broke out on the Ekaterinburg a fire repair work at the SRZ-82 dock in the village of Roslyakovo, Murmansk Region . was opened on the facts of the fire A criminal case . According to preliminary data, the boat caught fire due to safety violations during welding work. The fire area was about 150 square meters. m. The fire disabled some of the outboard devices of the nuclear submarine's hydroacoustic system; the bow of the boat and the equipment of the first compartment were damaged. In January, a high-ranking representative of the United Shipbuilding Corporation gave a preliminary estimate for repairs to the damaged ship ranging from 600 million to 900 million rubles. Some media reported that the repair of the nuclear submarine would cost 1 billion rubles, but this figure was then denied by Deputy Prime Minister and curator of state defense orders Dmitry Rogozin . In early February, Rogozin named the amount as 500 million rubles. He then stated that the cost of the work was reduced by almost half, because some spare parts could be found ready-made in warehouses.

Repair of the nuclear submarine Yekaterinburg after the fire will cost 600-900 million rubles. →

In June 2012, Ekaterinburg went into repairs at the Zvezdochka enterprise . On July 26, 2014, the cruiser was launched.

On the Ekaterinburg nuclear submarine, a boiler in the galley exploded during testing after repairs - media