The "Swedish Komsomol" submarine Exactly 45 years ago, on October 27, 1981, a very strange and shameful event occurred for the Soviet Navy. Baltic Navy submarine S-363 ran aground, but the most important thing is where! The Soviet submarine got stuck on the rocks off the coast just in sight of the Swedish naval base, near the town of Karlskrona. Of course, deep within Sweden's territorial waters (marked with an asterisk in the screenshot from Yandex. maps). The Swedes were alarmed - the Cold War was in full swing - they mobilized patrol ships, placed special forces brigades on the islands around them, and were ready to open fire to kill. Sweden announced a call for reservists. The Soviet sailors, being ready to storm the boat, received orders to destroy the ship. Fortunately, the boat is a diesel (although there were rumors of the presence of a torpedo with a nuclear warhead). The reason is banal. First, during combat service in the Baltic region, the submarine captured fishing nets and damaged the direction finding antenna. Then the inexperienced navigator Anatoly Korostov made a mistake in his calculations (and a big one - by 53 nautical miles) and set the wrong course. From the memoirs of the commander of the submarine S-363, Deputy Commander Vassili Basadin:... About this time, the navigator spoke. Finally he managed to locate the place. One can imagine the crew's reaction when Korostov Söf finally blurted out that the boat was sitting on the rocks off the southeast coast of Sweden, near the Karlskrona naval base. Many "warm" words were addressed to Anatoly himself, to his close and distant relatives, as well as to the head of the school that graduated such a navigator. Well, what can you say: an international scandal. The boat commander and the political officer were interrogated by the Swedish military for six hours. The embassies of the two countries exchanged angry notes. It all ended with the fact that on November 6, Swedish tugboats towed the submarine into open water, and the S-363 left for the base on its own - just in time for the November 7 holiday.

The "Swedish Komsomol" submarine Exactly 45 years ago, on October 27, 1981, a very strange and shameful event occurred for the Soviet Navy. Baltic Navy submarine S-363 ran aground, but the most important thing is where! The Soviet submarine got stuck on the rocks off the coast just in sight of the Swedish naval base, near the town of Karlskrona. Of course, deep within Sweden's territorial waters (marked with an asterisk in the screenshot from Yandex. maps). The Swedes were alarmed - the Cold War was in full swing - they mobilized patrol ships, placed special forces brigades on the islands around them, and were ready to open fire to kill. Sweden announced a call for reservists. The Soviet sailors, being ready to storm the boat, received orders to destroy the ship. Fortunately, the boat is a diesel (although there were rumors of the presence of a torpedo with a nuclear warhead). The reason is banal. First, during combat service in the Baltic region, the submarine captured fishing nets and damaged the direction finding antenna. Then the inexperienced navigator Anatoly Korostov made a mistake in his calculations (and a big one - by 53 nautical miles) and set the wrong course. From the memoirs of the commander of the submarine S-363, Deputy Commander Vassili Basadin:... About this time, the navigator spoke. Finally he managed to locate the place. One can imagine the crew's reaction when Korostov Söf finally blurted out that the boat was sitting on the rocks off the southeast coast of Sweden, near the Karlskrona naval base. Many "warm" words were addressed to Anatoly himself, to his close and distant relatives, as well as to the head of the school that graduated such a navigator. Well, what can you say: an international scandal. The boat commander and the political officer were interrogated by the Swedish military for six hours. The embassies of the two countries exchanged angry notes. It all ended with the fact that on November 6, Swedish tugboats towed the submarine into open water, and the S-363 left for the base on its own - just in time for the November 7 holiday.