The North Fleet of Russia is commemorating sailors of the sunken Kursk submarine at Vidyayevo, Gajiyevo, Zaozyorskoye, Severodvinsk and the dock Kursk left before sinking, as stated by Second-Rank Captain Yevgeny Kirillov.
Archbishop Simon of Murmansk and Monchegorsk prayed for the silors.
Kursk sunk at the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000.