Nerpichia

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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