I wonder if anybody suspected that THAT might have happened.
I was going to hope that somebody could get this relic to a real submarine museum, or get it on display to show how the Soviet war machine really worked (or didn't work!) during the cold war - but after 15 months underwater ????
It would be cheaper to buy a fresh one.
It's sad...I suppose that they didn't / couldn't do appropriate maintenance / repairs on the outside hatches and fittings on the hull and they lost their watertight integrity. Hopefully it was not a case similar to what happened here in The People's Republic of Washington some years ago, where a Department of Transportation worker, while doing maintenance at a water-level area of a FLOATING bridge, left one or more of the access hatches open right before a big wind kicked up. Yes, the water went into the maintenance hatch filling up the floatation pontoon and the entire bridge sank.....billions of dollars to replace. I don't believe that the DOT worker was ever publicly identified....he/she was most likely promoted shortly thereafter.
It would be cheaper to buy a fresh one.
I've seen aircraft carriers and old Soviet-era fighter jets come up for sale on eBay....you never know :-)
From what I hear, the one's still in service aren't much better.
How did the idiots manage to let it sink at the pier, I wonder?