Nuclear fortress: Major upgrades underway at Russian home port for strategic submarines of the Pacific Ocean

Sputnik Ildus Gilyazutdinov

A top-secret seaport in Kamchatka, home to some of Russia’s most-valuable attack and strategic submarines, is getting a major upgrade of its facilities. Massive 50-meter-high moles will make it more efficient and defensible.

Vilyuchinsk is a small city in Russia’s Far-Eastern region of Kamchatka located just 20 km from the provincial capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The location of both cities was chosen for the large bay that shields docked ships from violent storms blowing in from the Pacific Ocean.

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