Initial design work for the program began in the 1980s, although the fall of the Soviet Union would interrupt progress; construction on the first vessel would not begin until 1996. The program was ...

Airbus NEO satellite imagery shows the Project 885M Severodvinsk (Yasen)-class SSGN Novosibirsk and Project 955A Dolgorukiy (Borey)-class SSBN Knyaz Oleg at the Pacific Fleet's Rybachiy naval base in ...