Kursk submarine disaster [SEP] point in time
Kursk submarine disaster
The sinking of the nuclear-powered "Kursk" (Russian: ) took place during the first major Russian naval exercise in more than ten years, in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000, killing all 118 personnel on board. Nearby ships registered the initial explosion and a second, much larger, explosion which registered 4.2 on the Richter scale on seismographs as far away as Alaska, yet the Russian Navy did not realise that the sub had sunk and did not initiate a search for more than six
"Drinking Songs".
- Sequoya's "Barren the Sea", a folk song about the tragedy
Theatre.
- "The Kursk" – play about the trapped survivors, By Sasha Janowicz.
- "Kursk" – a play by playwright Bryony Lavery from the British point of view.
Movies.
- "Kursk" – The film from 2018 follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. By Thomas Vinterberg.
External links.
- Documentary
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