Gajievo naval base

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The naval base Gadschijewo ( Russian ЗАТО Гаджиево / transcription SATO Gadschijewo ) consisting of the berths Jagelnaja and Olenja Guba (German: Reindeer Bay ) is a naval base of the northern fleet of the Russian Navy in the city of Gadschijewo on the Kola peninsula .

history

A Project 971 submarine on the quay of the Gadschijewo naval base

The base was opened in 1956 and served as a base for diesel-electric submarines . From 1963 nuclear submarines were also stationed there, including the K-219, which sank in 1986 .

In 1995, a catastrophe loomed at the base when the utility company Kolenergo cut its power supply due to unpaid utility bills of $ 4.4 million, causing the reactors of at least one, according to other reports, four nuclear submarines , overheated. The impending meltdown could only be prevented by forcing Kolenergo to restart the power supply.

Today there are rocket boats ( SSBN ) of the type Project 667BDRM and the base is the home base of the 24th submarine division with its boats from Project 971 , and the base also serves as a location for a disposal facility for the fuels from decommissioned submarines , 200 m³ of liquid and 2,037 m³ of solid radioactive waste are to be stored there. In the adjoining Sajda Bay there is a ship cemetery and the world's largest storage facility for disused nuclear submarine reactors, built with German support.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Nuhr: The atomic legacy of the Northern Fleet . ARD-Radio-Feature from June 26, 2011, ( manuscript ( Memento from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), MP3 ( Memento from June 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))

Coordinates: 69 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 33 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E