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 World War II

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

During World War II

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 World War II

• С-117 (1952)
• М-200 Месть (Mest) (1956) †
• М-256 (1957)
• К-19 (1961)
• С-80 (1961)
• Б-37 (1962) †
• К-3 (1962)
• К-129 (1968) †
• K-27 (1968) †
• К-8 (1970) †
• 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.