When I was in the Navy, that Akula class sub was something to be feared. Seeing one rotting away like that doesn't seem like a fitting end.

This looks like a well organised and responsible decommissioning process, in which no hazardous chemicals or radioactive substances were released into the environment.

As a P-3 Orion Flight Engineer who spent 15,000+- hours flying over the Soviet Submarine fleet in all the worlds oceans. even though they were our nemesis, our enemy it is still sad to se an old war horse like those die such an ignominious death. I salute the men who rodethem to sea.

Great music and photos!

Seeing these old crumbling ships docked partially in the water like that gives me the creeps for some reason...

awww... they all look so cute... I want to cuddle them

classical music always brings that necessary drama to the clips like these!

Nicely done, thanks for making this available.

Having lived and served during the cold war (US Navy) I can't help but smile and even chuckle out loud when I see these pictures.

This has something quite erie about it. Makes me think of war secrets never to be known,lol.

thanks for posting these pictures online! :)

Sad to see these Hulls just sit there and slowly rust away. Must be Painful for the crews who manned these huge machines in there time of service. I'm sure many died in some of these Hulls in the worlds Oceans in they're time in service. They should be Honorably cut-up and the metal re-cycled . (My Opinion). They did they're job of maintaining a balance of power.

I was once aboard the Marshal Krilov in the 90's and the crew told me about this place. I looked it up on Google Earth and have seen the overhead views. It's incredible to see it from the ground! Highly radioactive, too. Wow!

Very sad, pride to sail aboard them and sadness to see them rot, good or bad it's the human spirit which is all that remains with memories

It always fills me with sadness seeing once great vessels that made people tremour with fear dying and dead. Tragic fate for such majestic ladies. RIP

01:20 I see an old Project 705 in there! That sub is still cutting edge technology. And just look at the lines on her... It's sad to see her just sitting there rusting away for lack of funds.

Hah, i can recognise some of wrecks :D I lived near in childhood. Most of these photos made on the Kola peninsula, not far from Gadzhiyevo city , the bay "Nezametnaya". This place is in border zone, so its really hard to visit it.

The music made a type off horror I love, and then something fell in my room and scared me

Music is well-chosen. Contemporary - with a dash of Debussy. Whose? Just the right note of chilly melancholy.

Where did you get these pictures? I spent 20 years in submarines chasing these same boats seen here. It is very sad to see these boats like this. I hope some of these boats can be saved as a memorial or museum. They represent a very critical time in USA and Soviet era history.

Spare no sadness for these Hulks many lives were spent in construction " Instead Think of their families " And the hardships of that era.

wow this gives me the creeps and reminds me of a story I read in Heavy Metal Magazine way back in the 80s :D

there really is something sad about seeing these once proud ships rusting away. i mean think about the heritage of the Russian navy and how much pride those sailors had in their ships.

Man, these might make really good autonomous drones if refitted properly.

Its like leaving toys in the bathtub when your done bathing...

cool music

well 3/6 typhoons were scrapped, 1 or 2 are active and 1 is being referbished to reenter service. So it's very possible that it was a typhoon tower. But I doubt that there are reactors on them. When USSR collapsed US payed us a bunch of money to properly dispose of that kind of stuff. Plus in Russia, when a part doesn't fit we don't throw it away. :)

They come a day when people will want to look back at these and they all will be gone. This is not just Russian history its ours as well.its like ww11 planes there are very few of them left and they are worth a ton of money and all this stuff will be looked at the same way.

Would love to visit , such potential for tours, beats visiting churches.

amazing video dude !

thanks for interesting video!

I love old ships...be cool if one of them suddenly sprang back to life

U-505 is still on exhibit in Chicago. She's the only Type-IX U-boat left.

Brave men sailed in those...that's for sure.

Fascinating!!!

they need to put them in a museum

Great vid. only I think all that metal should be re-cycled. to be used for better things rather than just slowly crumble away.

True. They had the largest submarine fleet of its day.

I'd love to go diving inside one of those!

man, I would LOVE to go through some of these-!!

@pcfd20 My point is this: old ships are full of fuel residues, old cans cleaning materials garbage, other hazardous things besides radioactive cores/core coolants. It takes a local population and properly beached vessels to get a scrapping process going. Now, if you google earth Prypiat, Belarus (fmr Soviet Union) and look for the harbor just southeast, you'll see a merchant ship / barge graveyard that no one will touch. There is a huge amount of mistrust for anything they abandoned.

The music is lovely

If you think you're gonna find it in one of those Russian submarine graveyards guess again! :P It's hidden in the Penobscot river in the state of Maine.

The U.S. has done this with a few of it's old WW2 aircraft carriers. Hollow them out and leave a few things inside and dump it. You can make artificial coral reefs with the wreaks which allow fish to thrive

Agreed. Shame to see such boats, where once men served under miles of water, now just rotting away. No one to look after them.

what beautiful beasts

It's a good thing I don't have any of those near me. I'd get lost in them, get killed/crushed or get cancer from exploring them so much.

@MsSMOTOR Хорошо сделанный шерлок!

All I can hear are my mother's words ringing in my ears, "clean up your mess".

Find the lead suit in that junkyard first. This is art, Industrial Decay.

the sleek one at 1:26 is an Akula class nuclear attack sub (SSN). I believe its similar to an early American Los Angeles class.

They look so sad yet menacing at the same time.

I've been there too. If you look close ,some of the hulks date back to WW2 and are in fact Liberty ships. After making the trip to deliver goods,they couldn't return so they were left there. A lot were used used as donors for their Steam engines to power a lot of the Soviet fishing fleets . I dont think any Typhoons were there. They have special facility to cut them up because of the steel in the hull and the reactor units. The steel is very quality and worth millions.

I would open one up, and explore!

If I recall those Akula hunter killers were cooled by liquid boron. If it the temperature got too low, then it would solidify in the system, and then the reactor wold go critical. I assume these still have their nuclear cores on board - contaminating the seas.

I hate to ask a legitimate question in the middle of people throwing pies at each other, however: Where was this filmed? Is this at Polyarny?

The Discovery chanel did a great job on the Russian decommissioning of their nuke boats. Most of these are the old diesels but even the two nukes I saw, had their reactors cut out and all you have is scrap. Dont know about batteries or any other stuff that might be toxic left in them, just say that is a lot of metal they need to smelt down and recycle into something better

Wow, what a poignant video. I have always liked submarines, especially Soviet ones. It is sad to see machines built with the sacrifices of a nation discarded like junk.

the only issue with them rotting is that many of them still have their nuclear reactors intact and some nuclear full inside them. as they rot away, that marital is going to leak into the water and possibly even explode.

There is a confusion of Akula class submarine. The NATO designation for Akula is actually the Russian designation for the Shchuka (Pike) class. The Akula (Shark) is designated by NATO as Typhoon. I'd say this was neither of these boats. Maybe as someone suggested Lira class.

love to buy 1 that would still work ... without weapons of course lol

Bit of a surprise to see an Alfa in there with the rest...maybe titanium is hard to recycle.

I love those Russian subs with windows in them

@ dorkus, most of these subs are Nuclear, which means that they are radioactive, which constantly affects wildlife and plants and people!

The good thing thou is that they are being dismantled and recycled so it isn't so bad.

This isn't actually that bad. Provided that there are no chemicals in the subs, rusting iron is actually a good environment for marine life.

Looks like a location in Fallout

Think of the thousands of matelots who once polished all their brasses, greased and oiled moving parts and maintained the engines in readiness for work. And of the men's fear......it is always there somewhere as we had in aircraft - the famous extra passenger or crewman.

There's supposed to be a German sub from WW1 at the bottom of Lake Michigan, towed there for target practice.

Sad - especially because these are only the tip of the iceberg. We've been abandoning ships all over the globe. Our earth. Our trash bin. Music was awesome. Details?

Look at all the scrap metal. Imagine what could be made if those were recycled.

cant beleive they left them sitting out there to rot. there absolutely MUST have been someone who at least woulda bought one, or a museum... i mean i grew up reading 20,000 Leagues and this just depresses me.... I wish I could have one and go Capt. Nemo on the world hahaha

That's the new Navy fleet. Up next fresh new apartments in cherynobel cheap!!!! The new so,pa

A once proud fleet rusting away in the arctic. I may be a little off center here, but sometimes it seems to me that the world was, in a sense, a safer place while the USSR existed. The Muslims were firmly under the Russian military heel. Yes, we lived under Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), but both sides adhered to a set of rules of rules at sea, in the air, on land, and yes, even in the Intelligence game, in which I played a small part. Probably just nostalgia on my part.

Epic spelling and grammar mate, well done!

And these people handle nuclear waste?

Seaworthy? You bet!... I want to see some 50 year old human remains! Some skeleton with a helmet on or something, that's always interesting to see.

Definitely a few nuke boats in there.

At 2:24 "WTF Gilligan!,thats the last time i let you dock"

Que cantidad de submarinos y barcos abandonados. Me causa un fea impresión, millones tirados en el agua y además la contaminación de las aguas, no solo poe el herumbre, sino los aparatos electrónicos, baterías, altamente contaminanates. Gracis por la información.

Those Subs can be recycled into metal in order to make another tank or a better submarine or something. Unless rusted metal is useless...

i also see some small warboats and maybe even a ww2 era destroyer, i wish these were for sale. :(

I for one would look in one maybe you would find a nuke warhead :P > : D

Most of these are early nuclear boats and some fuel oil powered ones as well. as far as I know there are like 2 that are still floating.

They look scary to go back in even with scuba gear

Seems like a waste. Scrap them or if if you had to, scuttle them in deep water. I guess it was a case of mothballing where there were simply no funds to maintain them at all and the corrosion and tidal action eventually allowed water to flood them and they sank in place. It's hard to believe that the reactors would still be on board. That would create an easy target for nuclear smuggling.

Looks like some Kilo , Alpha and Akula subs so it must be Soviet/Russian shipyards.

@MrAxlzero Yea I know! Russia went broke after the 1980-89 afgan war. Iwas on a sub during the cold war late 1960's a lot of the boats they had back then were very old

o yeahhh !!!!!!!!!!

Can anyone tell me what kind of submarine that is at 0:23? It looks awesome and such a waste to see it rusting away like that. Where is it located, I'd love to know. P.S. And I would give it a good home if it was for sale, seriously.

The saddest place for me is just around the corner from Gadzheivo, near Murmansk. You have a couple of photos of their "scrapyard" here. Very simply, most of the subs were left at the pier and many have simply sunk on their mooring lines. Too many of those subs are newer Victors and a couple of other types I don't recognise, but newer. It seems a waste of good technology.

where did they find it? that sounds cool as hell. i saw a movie once were two divers found a old u-boat refoated it and got it running well enough to rob th queen mary liner, very cool movie!! thanks for your reply most you tubers don;t even bother.

Ashes to Ashes ,Rust to Rust

Man...some of those subs like 1:25 if that weren't leaking deadly deadly radiation/chemicals, it would be so sick to bury it half way in the ground, strip the inside, and turn it into a badass house!!! Only because I know you could never bring these works of industrial art back to a seaworthy state.

I toured a 1970s era Russian diesel sub. Those things were junk when they were new. I'd hate to serve on one.

About a minute in I found I was increddibly depressed don't know if it was the subs or the bloody music .

@ClearEvilCZ thnx

Is this near Saint Petersburg?

surprised it is not scrapped out. but these were probably nukes.

Is this in Murmansk>The sub @ 1:25 looks like a Delta Class.Is the sub @ 3:14 a Akula class?