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Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors.

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Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets

Nuclear-powered attack submarine

The K-278 Komsomolets was the Project-685 Plavnik, nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy; the only submarine of her design class.
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Barents Sea

Marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia

The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters. It was known earlier among Russians as the Northern Sea, Pomorsky Sea or Murman Sea ; the current name of the…
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