ТК-202 was a ballistic missile submarine

Ballistic missile submarine

A ballistic missile submarine is a submarine equipped to launch ballistic missiles .-Description:Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate SLBMs such as the Russian R-29 or the American Trident...

 of the Russian Navy, formerly having served in the Soviet Navy

Soviet Navy

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Hull number TК-202 was laid down at the Sevmash

Sevmash

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 shipyard

Shipyard

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s in Severodvinsk

Severodvinsk

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 in October 1980 and launched in April 1982. She was the second ship of the Soviet

Soviet Union

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 Project 941 Akula class

Typhoon class submarine

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 (Russian

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 for shark, NATO reporting name

NATO reporting name

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 Typhoon). In December 1983, she began her commission in the Soviet Northern Fleet. She was, along with the other Akulas, based in Nerpichya Bay, Zapadnaya Litsa

Zapadnaya Litsa

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During her service in the Soviet era, she never received a proper name, as it was deemed an unsocialistic idea to name individual ships. Several of her sister ships later received names, but the TК-202 and the TК-13 continued to be called by their hull number

Hull number

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s alone. ТК stands for тяжелая крейсерская (tyazholaya kreyserskaya), meaning heavy cruiser

Heavy cruiser

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The 14-year old submarine was deactivated in 1997, and was laid up from July 1999 at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk awaiting decommissioning. With funding from the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction programme the defueling of her reactors

Nuclear reactor

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started in June 2002 at the Zvezdochka shipyard.

Sources

• deepstorm.ru - TK-202