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Kursk Arrives Home for Final Docking
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
(18:08)
Reuters

The 18,000-tonne Kursk was raised through 100 metres of Arctic waters on Monday

The wreck of Russia's Kursk submarine, hoisted from the Arctic seabed in a painstaking operation, was hauled to a bittersweet homecoming on Wednesday, more than a year after its sinking killed all 118 crew on board.

Crowds gathered on the bank at Roslyakovo, in the same region as the Kursk's home port of Vidyayevo, to watch the stricken nuclear submarine be towed into port by the Giant-4 lifting barge and be anchored a little way offshore.

It is will be dry docked in Roslyakovo, outside the northern port city of Murmansk, once two 100-metre-long (330 feet), 15-metre-wide steel pontoons are built out to the vessel to help move it.

A navy spokesman in Moscow said the dry docking was planned for Saturday.
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