The Novosibirsk Komsomolets submarine, which was decommissioned in 1998, docked in the northern Moscow suburb of Khimki on Friday evening after being towed here by a barge from the Arctic port of Severodvinsk, the home base of the Northern Fleet.
The 641-B type submarine was being towed along the Moscow River on Monday to the Bagration Bridge, which connects the Kutuzovsky Prospekt area with the planned Moskva-City project on Krasnopresnenskaya Naberezhnaya.
City authorities have not yet decided whether the submarine will be permanently docked there.
Oleg Tolkachyov, a senior city official, said it will take up to two months to turn the submarine into a museum. Some displays will be placed on board the Druzhny guard ship, which will be anchored nearby, he said.
The Druzhny is expected to be towed to Moscow from Kaliningrad, where the Baltic Fleet is based, within a few weeks.
Tolkachyov, lamenting that Moscow is one of the few major world capitals that does not have a naval museum, promised that the new museum would be open by the end of the year.
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