Nikolai Grigoryevich Mormul

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Nikolai Grigoryevich Mormul ( Russian: Николай Григорьевич Мормуль ; born March 18, 1933 in Miljutinskaja , Rostov Oblast , Soviet Union ; † November 19, 2008 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Soviet general of the Northern Fleet and author.

Critical arguments

He became known to an international audience through his reports on the nuclear waste problem in the Russian Navy . In particular, he caused a stir when he pointed out the nuclear-armed Soviet submarine K-8 , 800 kilometers off the French coast, which sank on April 12, 1970. The nuclear scrap from 30 years of Soviet naval armament was "disposed of" around the island of Novaya Zemlya . Mormul referred to the reactors of the K-19 , the K-3 Leninski Komsomol and the K-5 , called irradiated parts of the K-11 and the K-27 , a whole submarine with two neutron reactors and a tug full of 2,000 containers radioactive carbide and another 17,000 containers that had been sunk around the island in the sea.

Mormul's detailed, expert criticism led to his internment during the Cold War . From 1983 to 1989, as he himself said, "he visited five prisons, one psychiatric clinic and even one syphilitic cell". He later announced that he had not signed anything and did not admit any non-existent crimes.

Mormul was rehabilitated, published several books and last lived in Murmansk and Saint Petersburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bellona Report 2008 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Mormul, Nikolai Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mormul, Nikolai Grigoryevich; Мормуль, Николай Григорьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet general and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Milyutinskaya , Rostov Oblast , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2008
Place of death St. Petersburg