Nerpichia
Nerpichja ( Russian: Нерпичья ) is a naval base of the Northern Fleet in the fjord Sapadnaja Liza on the Barents Sea .
The base was established in the 1960s. It housed nuclear submarines of the type 675 Echo II class , later the type 658 hotel class and from around 1977 the 175 meter long boats of the type 941 Typhoon class .
The base has three piers and is linked by road and rail. The site was never completely finished. In the 1980s, a landslide damaged the base.
literature
- Thomas Nilsen, Igor Kudrik and Aleksandr Nikitin: Bellona Report 1: The Russian Northern Fleet. The Bellona Foundation , August 28, 1996, section 4.3.
Coordinates: 69 ° 25 ′ 44 ″ N , 32 ° 21 ′ 33 ″ E