To the question of a foreign television journalist, “What happened to the submarine Kursk,” the President of the Russian Federation replied: “It drowned.” The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation stated a little later: “There are no persons responsible for the disaster of the nuclear submarine Kursk.” Investigation into the death of 118 The submariners did not go to trial. It is closed and archived. This book is about why the most modern nuclear submarine of the Russian Navy sank, and about those whom the Main Military Prosecutor's Office found innocent of its death. This book is the testimony of a witness to the K-141 Kursk disaster, a witness collapse of the Russian Navy.