Project 949
Oscar I class
Drawings:
Ships:
K-525 - Severodvinsk Shipyard - serial no. 605 - laid down 25.7.75 - launched 3.5.80 - completed 30.12.80; from 5.80 attached to the 339th Submarine Brigade; from 24.1.81 attached to the 11th Submarine Division; 19.5.81 visited by Naval Commander-in-Chief Gorshkov and Minister of Shipbuilding Mikhail Egorov; 1981 extensive tests in the White Sea; 18.10.81 transferred from Severodvinsk to Zapadnaya Litsa; 23.10.81 conducted a four-salvo Granit (SS-N-24) launch; 1982 extensive tests; 19.7.82 visited by Naval Commander-in-Chief Gorshkov; 13.4.83 deep dive test in the Norwegian Sea off North Cape; 1983 delcared fully operational after a 40 day tour under the arctic ice; conducted at least one operational tour each year from 1983 - no details available; 30.8.91 relegated to the reserve, pending repairs and modernisation; 3.6.92 reclassified as APK; 1993 began repairs and modernisation at Zvezdochka, Severodvinsk, but decomissioned 31.7.96, due to lack of funding; 6.4.93 renamed Arkhangelsk; from 1996 stationed in Severodvinsk harbour; 1.2005 reactors removed and transferred to Saida Bay
K-206 - Severodvinsk Shipyard - serial no. 606 - laid down 22.4.79 - launched 10.12.82 - completed 30.11.83; from 12.82 attached to the 339th Submarine Brigade; from 15.12.83 attached to the 11th Submarine Division; 12.83 transferred from Severodvinsk to Zapadnaya Litsa; 15.5.84 deep dive trials in the Norwegian Sea; declared fully operational after operational tour 1.7.84 to 8.84; conducted at least one operational tour each year from 1984 - no details available; 9.7.85 conducted a two-salvo Granit (SS-N-24) launch; 14.7.87 renamed K-206 Minskiy Komsomolets; 2.10.87 visited by General Secretary Gorbachev; 3.6.92 reclassified as APK; 6.4.93 renamed Murmansk; 22.12.94 began repairs and modernisation at Zvezdochka, Severodvinsk; from 16.4.96 stationed in Severodvinsk harbour; 7.1.98 decomissioned due to lack of funding; 1.2005 reactors removed and transferred to Saida Bay