 Alfa-class submarine profile
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| History | |
|---|---|
 →  Soviet Union → Russia | |
| Name | K-123, later B-123 (from 1992)[1] |
| Builder | Zvezdochka yard, Severodvinsk[2] |
| Yard number | 105[1] |
| Laid down | 19 December 1967[1] |
| Launched | 4 April 1976[1] |
| In service | 12 December 1977[1] |
| Fate | Decommissioned 31 July 1996. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 81.4 m (267 ft 1 in)[3] |
| Beam | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in)[3] |
| Draft | 7 m (23 ft 0 in)[3] |
| Installed power | BM-40A lead-bismuth nuclear reactor[2] (155-MWt)[3] |
| Propulsion | OK-7 steam turbine, 40,000 hp (30,000 kW), 1 shaft[2] |
| Speed | |
| Test depth | 350 m (1,150 ft)[4] |
| Complement | 30 (24 officers, 4 warrant officers, 1 petty officer)[2] |
| Armament | 6 × 533 mm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes[3] |
K-123 was a Project 705K (NATO reporting name: Alfa) nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy. Renamed B-123 in 1992, the submarine was the only Project 705 boat to continue serving in the Russian Navy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. B-123 was decommissioned in 1996 and scrapped in 2006.
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- Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1982: The Warsaw Pact and Non-Aligned Nations. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-87021-919-7.
- Gardiner, Robert & Chumbley, Stephen, eds. (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.
- Pavlov, A. S. (1997). Warships of the USSR and Russia 1945–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-671-X.
- Polmar, Norman; Moore, K. J. (2003). Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945–2001. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books Inc. ISBN 1-57488-594-4.