Life in a confined space through the eyes of a "passenger" on a Russian submarine missile carrier Strategic missile submarines of the Tomsk type today form the basis of the naval strategic nuclear Forces (SNFMS) of modern Russia. At the beginning of the third millennium, they and the new-generation nuclear submarines of the Yuri Dolgoruky type (the first hull of this promising project will be built and brought to full readiness for a long time at the defense enterprise of Severodvinsk) will play an even more prominent role in the strategic component of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Military analysts believe that due to the reduction of the aviation and ground components of the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (both carriers and ammunition), sea-based launch platforms will become the main guarantor of strategic parity between Russia and the United States of America. It is estimated that it is sufficient to maintain 10 to 15 units of the project based on the Northern and Pacific Fleets of the Russian Federation to fulfill this task. It is possible that in the near future, these submarines will be widely used as sea-based spaceports. In any case, the global press has described in detail the launch of an automatic spacecraft into Earth orbit by a carrier rocket that was launched from the Bannoy-type submarine missile launcher. But one way or another, all the tasks that these ships are designed to perform are being and will continue to be carried out by people working in the confined space of a submarine submerged in the depths of the world's oceans. Today, we will tell our readers about their lives in the "strong hull." Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut, called the Soviet nuclear submariners his colleagues when he visited a Soviet nuclear submarine for the first time. This comparison is not accidental, as the life support systems of spacecraft and submarines are largely identical. However, cosmonauts spend most of their time in confined spaces in a sta ... Read more