In St. Petersburg, posthumously awarded the crew of the submarine "Leninsky Komsomol"
State awards - the Order of Courage - were presented today in St. Petersburg to the relatives of the 4-x crew members of the nuclear submarine K-3 "Leninsky Komsomol", the website reports Flot.com.
The orders were presented to the widows of Lieutenant Commander Gennady Ganin, 3 Captain Rank Lev Komorkin, Lieutenant Viktor Gurin, Commander of the Electro-Navigation Group Alexander Petrichenko.
“A total of 6 people managed to be found,” said Yuri Kalutsky, retired 1 captain, retired crew member of the K-3 submarine before the accident, chairman of the K-3 Public Council of Veterans. - However, only four were presented to the presentation of the order - the closest relatives of the dead submariners. Two more, a cousin of the sailor torpedo Vladimir Klemenchuk and the wife of the brother of the sailor-electrician navigator Viktor Romanov, rely only on an extract from the presidential decree. ”
Search for the native public council was engaged about 7 years. “Archives were raised, lengthy correspondence were held and data was collected on a thread. The International Association of Public Organizations of Navy Veterans and Submariners made an invaluable contribution to the search, ”the Chairman of the Council noted.
The publication reminds that “in 2011, the expert council was assembled to form the decision of the Ministry of Defense and to present state awards to the dead and especially distinguished crew members of K-3, the main task of which was to review and analyze the commission’s conclusions on 17 September submarine accident.
The board includes reputable scientists, specialists and experts. The decision was made in July of 2012. It read: “The crew’s actions to contain the K-3 nuclear submarine accident prevented the death of the ship and the man-made disaster. Personnel showed professionalism, heroism, courage and bravery, worthy of presentation to the award of state awards. "
As a result, 47 submariners were awarded posthumously with the Order of Courage after 39 years after the accident. The first order, Sergei Shoigu, was presented to 14 in November by the widow of Lieutenant Commander Anatoly Malyar, who saved at the cost of his own life 80 man
The fire on the submarine occurred 8 September 1967 g. "Due to leakage of flammable hydraulic fluid in one of the nodes of the hydraulics system in the torpedo compartment." It was after this incident that the flammable hydraulic fluid was replaced with a non-flammable PGV, which is an aqueous solution of glycerol and polyethylene glycol.
The orders were presented to the widows of Lieutenant Commander Gennady Ganin, 3 Captain Rank Lev Komorkin, Lieutenant Viktor Gurin, Commander of the Electro-Navigation Group Alexander Petrichenko.
“A total of 6 people managed to be found,” said Yuri Kalutsky, retired 1 captain, retired crew member of the K-3 submarine before the accident, chairman of the K-3 Public Council of Veterans. - However, only four were presented to the presentation of the order - the closest relatives of the dead submariners. Two more, a cousin of the sailor torpedo Vladimir Klemenchuk and the wife of the brother of the sailor-electrician navigator Viktor Romanov, rely only on an extract from the presidential decree. ”
Search for the native public council was engaged about 7 years. “Archives were raised, lengthy correspondence were held and data was collected on a thread. The International Association of Public Organizations of Navy Veterans and Submariners made an invaluable contribution to the search, ”the Chairman of the Council noted.
The publication reminds that “in 2011, the expert council was assembled to form the decision of the Ministry of Defense and to present state awards to the dead and especially distinguished crew members of K-3, the main task of which was to review and analyze the commission’s conclusions on 17 September submarine accident.
The board includes reputable scientists, specialists and experts. The decision was made in July of 2012. It read: “The crew’s actions to contain the K-3 nuclear submarine accident prevented the death of the ship and the man-made disaster. Personnel showed professionalism, heroism, courage and bravery, worthy of presentation to the award of state awards. "
As a result, 47 submariners were awarded posthumously with the Order of Courage after 39 years after the accident. The first order, Sergei Shoigu, was presented to 14 in November by the widow of Lieutenant Commander Anatoly Malyar, who saved at the cost of his own life 80 man
The fire on the submarine occurred 8 September 1967 g. "Due to leakage of flammable hydraulic fluid in one of the nodes of the hydraulics system in the torpedo compartment." It was after this incident that the flammable hydraulic fluid was replaced with a non-flammable PGV, which is an aqueous solution of glycerol and polyethylene glycol.
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