List of lost Russian or Soviet submarines

These Russian or Soviet submarines either suffered extensive crew casualties or were entirely lost to enemy action or to "storm or perils of the sea." A dagger (†) indicates that the boat was lost.

This list is not known to be complete.

According to the U.S. Navy, "The former Soviet Union secretly disposed of about 16 submarines by sinking them in the northern oceans."

See also the list of Russian or Soviet submarines.

Before the Russian Revolution

 * Дельфин (Delfin) (1904) †

Before the Great Patriotic War

 * Щ-103 (1935, storm)
 * Д-1 (1940, sea trials)
 * C-2 (1940, Winter war)

1941

 * Baltic Fleet
 * Л-2
 * С-1 (scuttled)
 * С-3 (scuttled)
 * С-5
 * С-6
 * С-8
 * С-10
 * С-11
 * Калев
 * Щ-301
 * Ронис (scuttled)
 * Спидола (scuttled)


 * Black Sea Fleet
 * Д-6 (scuttled)
 * C-34
 * Щ-204
 * Щ-206


 * Northern Fleet


 * Pacific Fleet
 * Л-16

1942

 * Baltic fleet
 * С-7
 * Щ-302
 * Щ-304
 * Щ-305
 * Щ-306
 * Щ-308
 * Щ-311


 * Black sea fleet
 * С-32
 * Pacific fleet
 * Щ-138


 * Northern fleet
 * Д-3
 * Л-24
 * К-2
 * К-23
 * Щ-405

1943

 * Baltic fleet
 * С-9
 * С-12
 * Black sea fleet
 * Щ-203
 * Northern fleet
 * К-1
 * К-3
 * К-22
 * С-55
 * Щ-406
 * Щ-408

1944

 * Л-6
 * Л-25
 * С-54

1945

 * С-4
 * Л-19

After the Great Patriotic War

 * С-117 (1952)
 * М-200 Месть (Mest) (1956) †
 * М-256 (1957)
 * К-19 (1961)
 * Б-37 (1962) †
 * К-3 (1962)
 * К-129 (1968) †
 * K-27 (1968) †
 * С-80 (1969)
 * К-8 (1970) †
 * SOVIET SUBMARINE K-56 (1973)
 * С-178 (1981)
 * К-429 (1983)
 * К-131 (1984)
 * К-219 (1986) †
 * К-278 Комсомолец (Komsomolets) (1989) †

After the fall of the Soviet Union

 * К-141 Курск (Kursk) (2000) †
 * К-159 (2003) †

The Komsomolets Nuclear Submarine Memorial Society aids the dependents of sailors lost in these disasters.