The photographers said they had to 'climb and crawl' to reach the bow compartment, pictured, where the dummy torpedo was stored. This type of submarine had six forward-facing torpedo tubes
* The images show the interior of Foxtrot-class submarine B-143, which served for 31 years from 1960
* They were taken by Olga Sorukhanova and Vladimir Kouksov, who run Chiffa Photography together * According to naval expert H. I Sutton, she would have been a patrol submarine, intended to fight ships
She stalked Nato ships during the Cold War, lurking in the depths of the ocean on long-range patrols. And these photographs show just what a grim job it would have been for those on board.
They show the poky interior of a Foxtrot-class Soviet submarine called B-143, operational from 1960 to 1991 and which would have carried a complement of nearly 80 men - and an armament of heavyweight torpedoes, including a nuclear one.
The pictures were taken by Ukrainian-Belgian couple Olga Sorukhanova and Vladimir Kouksov, who run Chiffa Photography, and record a slice of Cold War history for posterity.
The pair boarded the sub in January 2020 in Belgium, close to where it was being scrapped.
It had previously been on show at the Seafront Zeebrugge maritime theme park until the summer of 2019.
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WNU Editor: Only one toilet for 78 men. Life was definitely not easy for those who served onboard.
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