OREANDA-NEWS. On 20 August 2009 was announced, that every year on the 12th of August, the day of Nuclear Submarine "Kursk” loss, the ship-builders commemorate the dead seamen.

9 years ago the nuclear heart of one of the best creations of designers and ship-builders – nuclear submarine “Kursk” – stopped. Thousands of plant specialists and workers had laboured at creation of this submarine and took this tragedy as their own.

 “A terrible fortuity took lives of 118 crew members, - Mikhail Sitkin, the Deputy Director General of Sevmash, said when speaking at meeting. – And the hopes of people – fathers, mothers, wives, children – the number of which at least in some times exceeds this figure. The crew did the duty fully. And ship-builders’ duty is to construct the new modern nuclear submarines, which will serve at the sea boundaries of Russia. We will save a cherished memory of those who have given their lives for the safety of our Motherland only by creating the new reliable examples of military equipment”.

The tens of veterans, ship-builders, military seamen, representatives of Sevmash, “Zvezdochka” and municipal administration gathered at the meeting near the doleful stone of nuclear submarine “Kursk”.

Speech about military men duty, one minutes’ silence, salvo fire and tens of red carnations.