In mem­o­ry of all sea­far­ers who died in peace­time, a memo­r­i­al com­plex was opened in Mur­man­sk 20 years ago. Near­by, as a reminder of one of the most hor­rif­ic mar­itime dis­as­ters of the 21st cen­tu­ry, there is a mon­u­ment — a frag­ment of the Kursk sub­ma­rine. In the sum­mer of 2000, dur­ing train­ing tests, a tor­pe­do explod­ed in the launch com­part­ment of the sub­ma­rine, the boat sank and took with it the lives of 118 sub­mariners.