This looks like a well organised and responsible decommissioning process, in which no hazardous chemicals or radioactive substances were released into the environment.
As a P-3 Orion Flight Engineer who spent 15,000+- hours flying over the Soviet Submarine fleet in all the worlds oceans. even though they were our nemesis, our enemy it is still sad to se an old war horse like those die such an ignominious death. I salute the men who rodethem to sea.
Sad to see these Hulls just sit there and slowly rust away. Must be Painful for the crews who manned these huge machines in there time of service. I'm sure many died in some of these Hulls in the worlds Oceans in they're time in service. They should be Honorably cut-up and the metal re-cycled . (My Opinion). They did they're job of maintaining a balance of power.
I was once aboard the Marshal Krilov in the 90's and the crew told me about this place. I looked it up on Google Earth and have seen the overhead views. It's incredible to see it from the ground! Highly radioactive, too. Wow!
Where did you get these pictures? I spent 20 years in submarines chasing these same boats seen here. It is very sad to see these boats like this. I hope some of these boats can be saved as a memorial or museum. They represent a very critical time in USA and Soviet era history.
01:20 I see an old Project 705 in there! That sub is still cutting edge technology. And just look at the lines on her... It's sad to see her just sitting there rusting away for lack of funds.
there really is something sad about seeing these once proud ships rusting away. i mean think about the heritage of the Russian navy and how much pride those sailors had in their ships.
Hah, i can recognise some of wrecks :D I lived near in childhood. Most of these photos made on the Kola peninsula, not far from Gadzhiyevo city , the bay "Nezametnaya". This place is in border zone, so its really hard to visit it.
Hi Andrew, I am doing some research into this area and the naval shipwrecks. If you were interested it would be really useful if I could ask you a few questions, please feel free to send me a private message. Thanks, Judy
@pcfd20 My point is this: old ships are full of fuel residues, old cans cleaning materials garbage, other hazardous things besides radioactive cores/core coolants. It takes a local population and properly beached vessels to get a scrapping process going. Now, if you google earth Prypiat, Belarus (fmr Soviet Union) and look for the harbor just southeast, you'll see a merchant ship / barge graveyard that no one will touch. There is a huge amount of mistrust for anything they abandoned.
well 3/6 typhoons were scrapped, 1 or 2 are active and 1 is being referbished to reenter service. So it's very possible that it was a typhoon tower. But I doubt that there are reactors on them. When USSR collapsed US payed us a bunch of money to properly dispose of that kind of stuff. Plus in Russia, when a part doesn't fit we don't throw it away. :)
They come a day when people will want to look back at these and they all will be gone. This is not just Russian history its ours as well.its like ww11 planes there are very few of them left and they are worth a ton of money and all this stuff will be looked at the same way.
There is a confusion of Akula class submarine. The NATO designation for Akula is actually the Russian designation for the Shchuka (Pike) class. The Akula (Shark) is designated by NATO as Typhoon. I'd say this was neither of these boats. Maybe as someone suggested Lira class.
If you think you're gonna find it in one of those Russian submarine graveyards guess again! :P It's hidden in the Penobscot river in the state of Maine.
A once proud fleet rusting away in the arctic. I may be a little off center here, but sometimes it seems to me that the world was, in a sense, a safer place while the USSR existed. The Muslims were firmly under the Russian military heel. Yes, we lived under Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), but both sides adhered to a set of rules of rules at sea, in the air, on land, and yes, even in the Intelligence game, in which I played a small part. Probably just nostalgia on my part.
I've been there too. If you look close ,some of the hulks date back to WW2 and are in fact Liberty ships. After making the trip to deliver goods,they couldn't return so they were left there. A lot were used used as donors for their Steam engines to power a lot of the Soviet fishing fleets . I dont think any Typhoons were there. They have special facility to cut them up because of the steel in the hull and the reactor units. The steel is very quality and worth millions.
@MrAxlzero Yea I know! Russia went broke after the 1980-89 afgan war. Iwas on a sub during the cold war late 1960's a lot of the boats they had back then were very old
If I recall those Akula hunter killers were cooled by liquid boron. If it the temperature got too low, then it would solidify in the system, and then the reactor wold go critical. I assume these still have their nuclear cores on board - contaminating the seas.
the only issue with them rotting is that many of them still have their nuclear reactors intact and some nuclear full inside them. as they rot away, that marital is going to leak into the water and possibly even explode.
The U.S. has done this with a few of it's old WW2 aircraft carriers. Hollow them out and leave a few things inside and dump it. You can make artificial coral reefs with the wreaks which allow fish to thrive
Wow, what a poignant video. I have always liked submarines, especially Soviet ones. It is sad to see machines built with the sacrifices of a nation discarded like junk.
The saddest place for me is just around the corner from Gadzheivo, near Murmansk. You have a couple of photos of their "scrapyard" here. Very simply, most of the subs were left at the pier and many have simply sunk on their mooring lines. Too many of those subs are newer Victors and a couple of other types I don't recognise, but newer. It seems a waste of good technology.
no, the rust is too much, and thay are just too big for them they recreate them in a smaller lighter way for about 12 to 20 people, they are made from fiberglass or light weight materials with a hard structure, you can search them on google. and btw i do not think that the nuclear device was left in the abandoned submarines, that wold be very risky, biologicaly and the guerrillas would steal them
The Discovery chanel did a great job on the Russian decommissioning of their nuke boats. Most of these are the old diesels but even the two nukes I saw, had their reactors cut out and all you have is scrap. Dont know about batteries or any other stuff that might be toxic left in them, just say that is a lot of metal they need to smelt down and recycle into something better
Sad - especially because these are only the tip of the iceberg. We've been abandoning ships all over the globe. Our earth. Our trash bin. Music was awesome. Details?
Seems like a waste. Scrap them or if if you had to, scuttle them in deep water. I guess it was a case of mothballing where there were simply no funds to maintain them at all and the corrosion and tidal action eventually allowed water to flood them and they sank in place. It's hard to believe that the reactors would still be on board. That would create an easy target for nuclear smuggling.
where did they find it? that sounds cool as hell. i saw a movie once were two divers found a old u-boat refoated it and got it running well enough to rob th queen mary liner, very cool movie!! thanks for your reply most you tubers don;t even bother.
@Ebbonified Well i was excluding the radioactive "junk". Most of the rusting away submarines or ww2 or per-nuclear powered. However they do have a ton of "radioactive subs laying around". They also have tones of old obsolete tanks, ships, planes, helicopters etc laying around that would make good scrap. P.S: Russia as sold submarines for less then their scrap value to people(questionable people at that).
@Craftsteen117 Looks like a Romeo. Very distinct bulbous sonar dome. Looks like a plain jane romeo without any modifications unlike the one in wiki pic which is a modified one. Can't say it is for certain though.
at 1:50 im pretty sure thats a typhoon class tower sticking out of the water? and i saw an akula class amongst others. i mean, it dosent look like they are keeping tabs on the reactors much these days. how is that in any way good? just saying
Que cantidad de submarinos y barcos abandonados. Me causa un fea impresión, millones tirados en el agua y además la contaminación de las aguas, no solo poe el herumbre, sino los aparatos electrónicos, baterías, altamente contaminanates. Gracis por la información.
cant beleive they left them sitting out there to rot. there absolutely MUST have been someone who at least woulda bought one, or a museum... i mean i grew up reading 20,000 Leagues and this just depresses me.... I wish I could have one and go Capt. Nemo on the world hahaha
not just the russians! But you are right in a way, they do seem nuclear crazy. But for the messing up..............well, Harrisburg/Three Mile Island? Fukushima? Definately not in russia. We westerners should keep our own doorsteps clean, not just pointing at the dirt on the eastern doorsteps.
Yeesh... This is like a hellish version of the old "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" submarine ride at one of the Disney parks. Colin, I wouldn't doubt there's radioactive material or at least "mild" radioactive contamination in some of those wrecks. Barring incidents in Russia, Three Mile Island, and OUR two nuke sub wrecks, the Russian military ecological disaster is worse than about anything our govt has ever acknowledged -- on the books, that is...
When I was in the Navy, that Akula class sub was something to be feared. Seeing one rotting away like that doesn't seem like a fitting end.
This looks like a well organised and responsible decommissioning process, in which no hazardous chemicals or radioactive substances were released into the environment.
As a P-3 Orion Flight Engineer who spent 15,000+- hours flying over the Soviet Submarine fleet in all the worlds oceans. even though they were our nemesis, our enemy it is still sad to se an old war horse like those die such an ignominious death. I salute the men who rodethem to sea.
Seeing these old crumbling ships docked partially in the water like that gives me the creeps for some reason...
Great music and photos!
classical music always brings that necessary drama to the clips like these!
It always fills me with sadness seeing once great vessels that made people tremour with fear dying and dead. Tragic fate for such majestic ladies. RIP
awww... they all look so cute... I want to cuddle them
Having lived and served during the cold war (US Navy) I can't help but smile and even chuckle out loud when I see these pictures.
Sad to see these Hulls just sit there and slowly rust away. Must be Painful for the crews who manned these huge machines in there time of service. I'm sure many died in some of these Hulls in the worlds Oceans in they're time in service. They should be Honorably cut-up and the metal re-cycled . (My Opinion). They did they're job of maintaining a balance of power.
I agree with ya there. Poor girls, will be heart-breaking to see them go.
i should try to restore them just to honor the men that have served our country's and died
and it will be pretty cool to see them running again
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Nicely done, thanks for making this available.
This has something quite erie about it.
Makes me think of war secrets never to be known,lol.
I was once aboard the Marshal Krilov in the 90's and the crew told me about this place. I looked it up on Google Earth and have seen the overhead views. It's incredible to see it from the ground! Highly radioactive, too. Wow!
Where did you get these pictures? I spent 20 years in submarines chasing these same boats seen here. It is very sad to see these boats like this. I hope some of these boats can be saved as a memorial or museum. They represent a very critical time in USA and Soviet era history.
01:20 I see an old Project 705 in there! That sub is still cutting edge technology. And just look at the lines on her... It's sad to see her just sitting there rusting away for lack of funds.
thanks for posting these pictures online! :)
Very sad, pride to sail aboard them and sadness to see them rot, good or bad it's the human spirit which is all that remains with memories
there really is something sad about seeing these once proud ships rusting away. i mean think about the heritage of the Russian navy and how much pride those sailors had in their ships.
Hah, i can recognise some of wrecks :D I lived near in childhood. Most of these photos made on the Kola peninsula, not far from Gadzhiyevo city , the bay "Nezametnaya". This place is in border zone, so its really hard to visit it.
Hi Andrew, I am doing some research into this area and the naval shipwrecks. If you were interested it would be really useful if I could ask you a few questions, please feel free to send me a private message. Thanks, Judy
The music made a type off horror I love, and then something fell in my room and scared me
so sad! As a Sailor, there is so much history there, regardless of who's side they were on!
wow this gives me the creeps and reminds me of a story I read in Heavy Metal Magazine way back in the 80s :D
Spare no sadness for these Hulks many lives were spent in construction " Instead Think of their families " And the hardships of that era.
Music is well-chosen. Contemporary - with a dash of Debussy. Whose? Just the right note of chilly melancholy.
Would love to visit , such potential for tours, beats visiting churches.
@pcfd20 My point is this: old ships are full of fuel residues, old cans cleaning materials garbage, other hazardous things besides radioactive cores/core coolants. It takes a local population and properly beached vessels to get a scrapping process going.
Now, if you google earth Prypiat, Belarus (fmr Soviet Union) and look for the harbor just southeast, you'll see a merchant ship / barge graveyard that no one will touch. There is a huge amount of mistrust for anything they abandoned.
U-505 is still on exhibit in Chicago.
She's the only Type-IX U-boat left.
Great vid. only I think all that metal should be re-cycled. to be used for better things rather than just slowly crumble away.
I love old ships...be cool if one of them suddenly sprang back to life
well 3/6 typhoons were scrapped, 1 or 2 are active and 1 is being referbished to reenter service. So it's very possible that it was a typhoon tower. But I doubt that there are reactors on them. When USSR collapsed US payed us a bunch of money to properly dispose of that kind of stuff. Plus in Russia, when a part doesn't fit we don't throw it away. :)
Its like leaving toys in the bathtub when your done bathing...
They come a day when people will want to look back at these and they all will be gone. This is not just Russian history its ours as well.its like ww11 planes there are very few of them left and they are worth a ton of money and all this stuff will be looked at the same way.
There is a confusion of Akula class submarine. The NATO designation for Akula is actually the Russian designation for the Shchuka (Pike) class. The Akula (Shark) is designated by NATO as Typhoon.
I'd say this was neither of these boats. Maybe as someone suggested Lira class.
This isn't actually that bad. Provided that there are no chemicals in the subs, rusting iron is actually a good environment for marine life.
If you think you're gonna find it in one of those Russian submarine graveyards guess again! :P It's hidden in the Penobscot river in the state of Maine.
it have to be Murmansk... .. Putin is a gangster... he has to clean this up to get just a little respect through out the world... ;)
Find the lead suit in that junkyard first. This is art, Industrial Decay.
man, I would LOVE to go through some of these-!!
Be sure to bring a Geiger-counter - pretty sure it will scream out loud
True. They had the largest submarine fleet of its day.
A once proud fleet rusting away in the arctic. I may be a little off center here, but sometimes it seems to me that the world was, in a sense, a safer place while the USSR existed. The Muslims were firmly under the Russian military heel. Yes, we lived under Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), but both sides adhered to a set of rules of rules at sea, in the air, on land, and yes, even in the Intelligence game, in which I played a small part. Probably just nostalgia on my part.
Man, these might make really good autonomous drones if refitted properly.
Brave men sailed in those...that's for sure.
I've been there too. If you look close ,some of the hulks date back to WW2 and are in fact Liberty ships. After making the trip to deliver goods,they couldn't return so they were left there. A lot were used used as donors for their Steam engines to power a lot of the Soviet fishing fleets . I dont think any Typhoons were there. They have special facility to cut them up because of the steel in the hull and the reactor units. The steel is very quality and worth millions.
@ dorkus, most of these subs are Nuclear, which means that they are radioactive, which constantly affects wildlife and plants and people!
And these people handle nuclear waste?
The good thing thou is that they are being dismantled and recycled so it isn't so bad.
@MrAxlzero Yea I know! Russia went broke after the 1980-89 afgan war. Iwas on a sub during the cold war late 1960's a lot of the boats they had back then were very old
the sleek one at 1:26 is an Akula class nuclear attack sub (SSN). I believe its similar to an early American Los Angeles class.
I agree. To a certain extent we still live under MAD, but the rules are slowly disappearing.
If I recall those Akula hunter killers were cooled by liquid boron. If it the temperature got too low, then it would solidify in the system, and then the reactor wold go critical. I assume these still have their nuclear cores on board - contaminating the seas.
Most of these are early nuclear boats and some fuel oil powered ones as well. as far as I know there are like 2 that are still floating.
the only issue with them rotting is that many of them still have their nuclear reactors intact and some nuclear full inside them. as they rot away, that marital is going to leak into the water and possibly even explode.
The U.S. has done this with a few of it's old WW2 aircraft carriers. Hollow them out and leave a few things inside and dump it. You can make artificial coral reefs with the wreaks which allow fish to thrive
Wow, what a poignant video. I have always liked submarines, especially Soviet ones. It is sad to see machines built with the sacrifices of a nation discarded like junk.
Those Subs can be recycled into metal in order to make another tank or a better submarine or something. Unless rusted metal is useless...
cool music
they need to put them in a museum
Agreed. Shame to see such boats, where once men served under miles of water, now just rotting away. No one to look after them.
At 00:22 I think is a Typhoon, and at 01:20 and 02:38 are Alpha Class Nuclear Attack Subs. Only 7 were built.
There's supposed to be a German sub from WW1 at the bottom of Lake Michigan, towed there for target practice.
The music is lovely
The saddest place for me is just around the corner from Gadzheivo, near Murmansk. You have a couple of photos of their "scrapyard" here. Very simply, most of the subs were left at the pier and many have simply sunk on their mooring lines. Too many of those subs are newer Victors and a couple of other types I don't recognise, but newer. It seems a waste of good technology.
About a minute in I found I was increddibly depressed don't know if it was the subs or the bloody music .
I hate to ask a legitimate question in the middle of people throwing pies at each other, however:
Where was this filmed? Is this at Polyarny?
no, the rust is too much, and thay are just too big for them
they recreate them in a smaller lighter way for about 12 to 20 people, they are made from fiberglass or light weight materials with a hard structure, you can search them on google.
and btw i do not think that the nuclear device was left in the abandoned submarines, that wold be very risky, biologicaly and the guerrillas would steal them
At 2:24 "WTF Gilligan!,thats the last time i let you dock"
The Discovery chanel did a great job on the Russian decommissioning of their nuke boats. Most of these are the old diesels but even the two nukes I saw, had their reactors cut out and all you have is scrap. Dont know about batteries or any other stuff that might be toxic left in them, just say that is a lot of metal they need to smelt down and recycle into something better
I'd love to go diving inside one of those!
+mattaddison19 The water around and inside is so toxic you probably would be sick afterwards!
+pepe cohetes Que le ocurre al agua a su alrededor?
+mattaddison19 there to hot from the reactors
I would open one up, and explore!
I know. I've been on it. The guys who made the German TV series that became the movie Das Boot toured it for production information.
Sad - especially because these are only the tip of the iceberg. We've been abandoning ships all over the globe. Our earth. Our trash bin. Music was awesome. Details?
Bit of a surprise to see an Alfa in there with the rest...maybe titanium is hard to recycle.
It's a good thing I don't have any of those near me. I'd get lost in them, get killed/crushed or get cancer from exploring them so much.
Seems like a waste. Scrap them or if if you had to, scuttle them in deep water. I guess it was a case of mothballing where there were simply no funds to maintain them at all and the corrosion and tidal action eventually allowed water to flood them and they sank in place.
It's hard to believe that the reactors would still be on board. That would create an easy target for nuclear smuggling.
where did they find it? that sounds cool as hell. i saw a movie once were two divers found a old u-boat refoated it and got it running well enough to rob th queen mary liner, very cool movie!! thanks for your reply most you tubers don;t even bother.
Is this in Murmansk>The sub @ 1:25 looks like a Delta Class.Is the sub @ 3:14 a Akula class?
They look so sad yet menacing at the same time.
@Ebbonified Well i was excluding the radioactive "junk". Most of the rusting away submarines or ww2 or per-nuclear powered. However they do have a ton of "radioactive subs laying around". They also have tones of old obsolete tanks, ships, planes, helicopters etc laying around that would make good scrap.
P.S: Russia as sold submarines for less then their scrap value to people(questionable people at that).
@Craftsteen117 Looks like a Romeo. Very distinct bulbous sonar dome. Looks like a plain jane romeo without any modifications unlike the one in wiki pic which is a modified one. Can't say it is for certain though.
I love those Russian subs with windows in them
at 1:50 im pretty sure thats a typhoon class tower sticking out of the water? and i saw an akula class amongst others. i mean, it dosent look like they are keeping tabs on the reactors much these days. how is that in any way good? just saying
All they need to do is go by True Value or Home Depot , these subs would be back in service ..2 weeks tops !
Que cantidad de submarinos y barcos abandonados. Me causa un fea impresión, millones tirados en el agua y además la contaminación de las aguas, no solo poe el herumbre, sino los aparatos electrónicos, baterías, altamente contaminanates. Gracis por la información.
Fascinating!!!
There wasn't ANY Typhoon class subs in this vid. A few Alpha's, a Charlie, and lots of diesel boats.
Has any body ever taken photos of our old navy ships being scrapped. Would be interesting to see
Budget isn't everything. It's what you do with it. America wastes a lot of money too.
cant beleive they left them sitting out there to rot. there absolutely MUST have been someone who at least woulda bought one, or a museum... i mean i grew up reading 20,000 Leagues and this just depresses me.... I wish I could have one and go Capt. Nemo on the world hahaha
These images do not seem too old. Where were they taken?
Look at all the scrap metal. Imagine what could be made if those were recycled.
How many of these old boats are(were) nuclear powered?
what beautiful beasts
@secretcrowds17 Looks like Murmansk. Im pretty sure there is something like this a few km north of the big naval base there.
Honestly, I've never even been to California and don't plan on going there. Just take a road trip and you'll see what I mean. Open your eyes and ears.
not just the russians! But you are right in a way, they do seem nuclear crazy. But for the messing up..............well, Harrisburg/Three Mile Island? Fukushima? Definately not in russia.
We westerners should keep our own doorsteps clean, not just pointing at the dirt on the eastern doorsteps.
That's the new Navy fleet. Up next fresh new apartments in cherynobel cheap!!!! The new so,pa
Yeesh...
This is like a hellish version of the old "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" submarine ride at one of the Disney parks.
Colin, I wouldn't doubt there's radioactive material or at least "mild" radioactive contamination in some of those wrecks. Barring incidents in Russia, Three Mile Island, and OUR two nuke sub wrecks, the Russian military ecological disaster is worse than about anything our govt has ever acknowledged -- on the books, that is...
Looks like a location in Fallout
All I can hear are my mother's words ringing in my ears, "clean up your mess".
thanks for interesting video!