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Go-ahead for Lift as Mission Targets Murmansk by Weekend
Tuesday, October 02, 2001

Salvage teams expect Russia's Kursk to be raised soon - The Giant 4 barge (L) tries to position itself above the sunken Kursk submarine, near to the Peter the Great missile cruiser in the Barents Sea on September 27. The barge is set to lift the nuclear submarine which sank in August last year after two unexplained onboard explosions.
Photo Credit: REUTERS / Pavel Pavlov.

Round-the-clock operations began last night (Monday) as Kursk’s lift was approved for a Wednesday or Thursday target date and as members of the government commission charged with the salvage assembled in northern Russia to board ships bound for the Barents Sea wreck site.

Russian Vice-Premier Ilya Klebanov arrived on navy flagship and fleet command headquarters Pyotr Veliki (Peter the Great), joining commander-in-chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov and deputy commander Rear-Admiral Mikhail Barskov to stay with the mission until the submarine is raised, Klebanov told journalists gathered in the Arctic port of Murmansk.

Nuclear submarine "Kursk".
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Commission members, including Kursk designer and head of Russia’s Rubin Marine Design Bureau Igor Spassky, will view operations from the flagship and Norwegian diving support vessel, the Mayo, an Interfax news agency report said.
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