Robert Moore: Kursk: Putin's First Crisis and the Russian Navy's Darkest Hour

Admiral Kharlamov (warship), 75, 110

Admiral Kuznetsov (carrier), 222

Aksaz Naval Base, 309

Akula-class submarines, 154

Alexander III, Tsar, 81, 82

Alexander Keiland platform, 256

Alexandrovsk, 82

Alma-Ata, 56

Altai (tug), 104, 125, 144

American Sixth Fleet, 88

Andreyevsky Hall, 17

Anikiev, Roman, 315

Annenkov, Yuri, 313

Antey 949 A type submarines, 34

Antonov-124 transporter, 124, 178

Ara-Guba Bay, 42

ARCESS (Arctic Experimental Seismic Station), 73, 142

Archangel, 35, 98, 311, 312, 315

Arctic Circle, 31, 42

Arctic Ocean, 4, 47

Arctic Sea, 31

Ariapov, Rashid, 40, 67–8, 98, 293, 315

AS-32 ( Avtonomny Rabochy Snaryad ), 104, 127, 132–3, 163, 166, 197

AS-34, 309

Ascending safety capsule, 88

Asgard Field, 180, 187, 212

Atmospheric pressure, 121 122

Audio recording of Kursk disaster, 159

Augmented watch section, 26

Bagriantsev, Vladimir, 311

Bain, Stuart, 233

Balanov, Alexei, 99, 315

Ball, Garry, 251, 255, 258–50

Balt-electric, 203

Baltic Fleet, 115, 286

Baltic Sea, 81, 173

Baranov, Igor, 161–2, 192

Barents Sea, 15, 23, 24, 26–30, 43, 44, 46, 63, 74, 75, 78, 79, 83, 103, 110–3, 133, 147, 208, 210, 223, 289, 297

Battle Efficiency award, 25

Battle stations, 27

Baybarin, Valery, 314

Baygarin, Marat, 311

Bay of Biscay, 107

Bay of Severomorsk, 104

Bear Island, 63, 100

Beliaev, Anatoly, 314

Belogun, Galina, 160

Belogun, Viktor, 311

Belov, Mikhail, 313

Belozorov, Nikolai, 314

Berezovsky, Boris, 19

Berger, Sandy, 302

Berlin Wall, 277

Beslan school terrorist attack, 20, 313

Bester submersible, 109, 133, 166, 197, 202, 307

Bezsokirny, Viacheslav, 300, 313

BIBS (built-in breathing system), 92

Black Sea, 17, 173, 285

Black Sea Fleet, 81, 103, 115, 285

Blom, Jan, 136

Bochkov, Mikhail, 316

Boevaya trevoga (battle or emergency alarm), 108

Boriso-Glebsk (attack boat), 28, 49, 75

Borisov, Andrei, 315

Borisov, Arnold, 59, 298, 311

Borisov, Yury, 315

Borzhov, Maxim, 59, 311

Boyarkin, Yuri, 222, 303

Brazhkin, Alexander, 316

Breor, Mark, 23–27, 29, 30, 79, 208

British/Norwegian rescue operations, 171–83, 187–91, 204–7, 212–9, 223–67

Bubniv, Vadim, 312

Buchheim, Lothar-Günther, 60

Bursyk, Viktor, 160, 220

Burtsev, Oleg, 253–4, 263, 303, 304

Butskikh, Sergei, 128

Carbon dioxide, 94–6, 100, 123, 266, 292

Carbon monoxide, 295

Challenger space shuttle, 215

Chapman, Pete, 181

Chechen War, 18, 301

Chernishov, Sergei, 289–90

Chernyshov, Olga, 117, 157, 158

Chernyshov, Sergei, 117, 157, 313

Cherry, David, 183

Citadel Sword, 25

Clark, Ali, 219, 233

CNN, 19

Cofferdam boundary, 308

Cold shock, 89, 121

Cold War, 15, 25, 32, 47, 53, 83, 135, 152, 162, 210

Collision theory of Kursk disaster, 207–9, 307–6

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), 312

Continental shelves, 145

Crew of Kursk:

characteristics of, 39–40

list of, 311–6

list sold to reporter, 196

wives and families, 117–8, 157–61, 192, 195, 219–23, 268–74, 300–1

Crush depth, 145

CVI (close visual inspection), 248

Daniil Moskovsky (attack boat), 28, 49, 75

Decompression sickness (the bends), 122, 125, 183, 260

DEFCOMNON (Defence Command Northern Norway), 135–8, 171–4

Delta IV-class submarines, 70, 105

Dinessen, Paal, 233, 239, 241–5, 248–51, 256

Dobroskochenko, Vladimir, 303

Driuchenko, Andrei, 312

Dronov submersible, 126

DSRVs (deep submergence rescue vehicles), 145–6

Dudko, Oksana, 161

Dudko, Sergei, 161, 312

Dynamic positioning technology, 164

Eastern Atlantic Command, 140

East Germany, 277–8

Egiev, Lt Colonel, 305

Eighth Directorate of the General Staff, 168

Emergency buoy of Kursk, 62, 111, 233, 309

Emergency life-support equipment, 94

Engen Maru (cargo vessel), 185–6

Equalization valve (e-valve), 247–53, 255, 257, 259, 261

Escape hatch of Kursk, 89, 92, 121, 130–1, 163, 176–7, 201, 204–5, 227, 232, 239, 242, 246–55, 257–64, 307

F-16 fighter jets, 207

Face squeeze, 89, 121, 232

Fedorichev, Igor, 313

Fesak, Vladimir, 312

Filatov, Admiral, 304

First Submarine Flotilla, 42, 253, 304

First World War, 52, 82, 112, 144, 290

Firth, Colin, 14

Fiterer, Sergei, 313

Fleeting, 91–3

Fleet of the Northern Seas, 82–4

FSB (Russian security service), 110

Gadjiev, Mamed, 58, 272, 311

Gadjievo naval base, 72, 105

GCHQ, 78

Geletin, Boris, 312

Gessler, Robert, 315

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 35, 275

Gorbunov, Yevgeny, 314

Great Siege of Leningrad, 13

Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) Gap, 78

Gremikha, 32, 78, 84

Griaznykh, Sergei, 312

Grossenbacher, John, 208

Gudkov, Alexander, 313

Gulf Stream, 82

Haakonsvern submarine base, 208

Halliburton, 285

Heliox, 239

Hero of Russia, 38, 46

HMS Edinburgh, 216

HMS Sceptre, 153, 282

HMS Sidon, 57

HMS Splendid, 156

HMS Superb, 282

HTP (High-test peroxide) torpedo, 53–9, 63, 306

Hvalve, John, 233

Hyperbaric lifeboat, 214, 218

Hypothermia, 89, 90, 121, 292

IDA-59M (Individualny Dykhatelny Apparat), 93

Ildarov, Abdulkhadur, 56, 59, 311

Ilyin, Vladislav, 175, 307

Ilyushin-38 search plane, 102, 105, 206

Institute Number, 50, 286

Ioann, Father, 36

Isaenko, Vasily, 311

Ishmudatov, Fanis, 98, 315

ISP-60s (Individualnoe Sredstvo Podvodnika), 90

Ivanov, Sergei, 302

Ivanov, Vasily, 316

Ivanov-Pavlov, Alexei, 56, 312

Ivashov, Leonid, 167, 168

K-8 (submarine), 107

K-14 (submarine) (see Kursk [submarine])

K-19 (submarine), 107

K-159 (submarine), 19

K-219 (submarine), 107

Kaliningrad, 13

Kalinin, Sergei, 313

Kalugin, Alexander, 198

Kamchatka, 310–11

Kamchatka test range, 74

Karaputa, Pavel, 132

Karasjok, Norway, 73–4, 142

Karelia (submarine), 28, 49, 70–2, 105, 106, 126

Kasyanov, Valery, 160

Kazakhstan, 56

Kemerovo shopping-mall fire, 20,21

Keslinsky, Sergei, 312

KGB, 155, 169, 277–8

Khafizov, Nailkh, 314

Khalepo, Alexander, 314

Khandobin, Vladimir, 303

Khivuk, Vladimir, 312

Khodynka Field incident, 194

Kichkiruk, Vasily, 314

Kildin Island, 104, 108

KIL (engineering support vessel), 163

Kirichenko, Denis, 313

Kirk, Matt, 217, 227, 233–5, 240

Kirkenes, Norway, 204, 282

Klebanov, Ilya, 220–23, 280, 282, 293, 305

Kochegub, Mikhail, 120

Kokurin, Sergei, 312

Kolesnikov, Roman, 306

Kola Bay, 82

Kola Inlet, 152

Kola Peninsula, 15, 25, 31–4, 40, 45, 46, 74, 78–84, 100, 108, 146, 178, 193, 258, 267

Kolesnikov, Andrei, 269, 277

Kolesnikov, Dmitri, 14, 15, 22, 37, 40, 41, 68, 86–7, 93, 296, 306, 315

notes left by, 14, 97–9, 124–25, 289–92, 307

Kolesnikov, Olga, 22, 28, 291, 296

Kolomiytsev, Alexei, 314

Kommersant (submarine), 269

Komsomolets (submarine), 100, 158, 309

Komsomolskaya Pravda (newspaper), 192, 196