



Two Akula II-class nuclear Russian submarines, the
Samara (K-295) and the
Bratsk (K-391) ferried across the Arctic on the Dutch heavy lift ship MS
Transshelf from their base at Petropavlovsk, in the Kamchatka Peninsula, to the Zvezdochka shipyards in Severodvinsk, near Arkhangelsk, for an extensive modernization.