Where did the old submarine come from in the central part of Russia, if the seas around and in the daytime with fire could not be found? The fact is that it appeared near Togliatti as a result of a unique operation that took place almost 15 years ago. It's time to find out how it was and why the B-307 was needed in the middle of the Volga steppes.
Submarine B-307 is a Soviet diesel submarine that was built at the Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard in 1980 as part of Project 641B Som. In the autumn of the same year, she was launched into the water, after which she took up combat duty in the first month of winter. The submarine had to work for at least 22 years. However, at the beginning of the "dashing 1990s" she went to the shipyard for repairs. Due to the underfunding of the project, the B-307 was repaired by less than 90%. As a result, the flag was lowered on the ship and sent to the cemetery, to live out its life and await disposal.
In 2003, the B-307 was sold to the Sakharov Technical Museum in Togliatti for 768 thousand rubles. Already on November 1, she left Kronstadt in tugs and moved through the locks along Ladoga, Onega and Beloe lakes. The crossing will be 2,200 km. In St. Petersburg, during the transportation of the B-307, 8 drawbridges passed. In addition, the ship crossed 22 locks, and 8 of them had a width of some 17.7 meters. Part of the way 307 had to do overland.
For this, a special "ski" flooring with a length of 91 meters was made, which completely followed the contours of the submarine. Thanks to him, land transportation became possible over a distance of another 4.5 km. The submarine was dragged ashore in the fall of 2004, and the submarine began to move in the winter of 2005. The ship had to be pulled by a 9 BAT military tractor, which was specially driven from the Totsk test site for this task.
During the onshore stage of transportation, the B-307 submarine crossed the Togliatti-Primorsky highway and the sewage canal of local chemical plants. As a result, on April 22, 2005, the submarine reached its destination, where it took another 15 hours and 20 minutes to install and fix it. After that, the 307th became one of the brightest exhibits of the local technical museum.
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