VILYUCHINSK. Sept 25 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian President and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Dmitry Medvedev visited a submarine base of the Pacific Fleet in Krasheninnikov Bay in Kamchatka on Thursday. He toured the St. George strategic nuclear-powered submarine equipped with intercontinental ballistic missiles and anti-sub and anti-ship torpedoes.
Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and Pacific Fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Konstantin Sidenko accompanied the president. Submarine commander Capt. 1st Class Oleg Nazarov was leading the tour.
Medvedev was shown the submarine's main command post, which controls the boat, missiles and torpedoes. The submarine is capable of reaching any place of the globe.
The sub was built in Severodvinsk in 1978 and launched in 1980. It has a crew of 197, Nazarov said.
The president was shown the submarine's combat data system, control system and chart room. He expressed particular interest in the sub's navigator receiver operating by signal from the Russian Glonass and the U.S. Navstar clusters. Nazarov told Medvedev that the device was installed in 2004.