Emergency crews have put out a fire on a giant Russian nuclear submarine which had been undergoing repairs in dry dock.
Firefighters had been struggling to extinguish the blaze for several hours before deciding to flood the dock and submerge the vessel.
"At this moment, the fire on submarine Orel has been completely put out," said Yevgeni Gladychev, spokesman for the Zvyozdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk, in the northern province of Arkhangelsk.
In a statement, the shipyard said the fire started at 2.00pm (12pm UK time) in the stern when welding work impacted rubber-based insulation.
Televised footage from the dock showed black smoke rising above the 155 metre-long (508ft) sub.
However, a representative of the local fire service said: "You can't smell the smoke in the city." He added that they were not called in to help the shipyard's own firefighters.
The state news agency Tass said the Orel is an Oscar II-class sub capable of carrying nuclear-tipped cruise and anti-submarine missiles.
Ilya Zhitomirsky, a spokesman for the United Shipbuilding Corporation which runs the shipyard, said the Orel's weapons and critical elements of its nuclear reactor had been removed before the repairs started.
"The nuclear fuel had been unloaded from the Orel before it was put up on dry dock. The reactor is turned off," he told RIA Novosti agency.
He said no one had been injured in the blaze.
The shipyard's website said the Orel - part of Russia's Northern fleet based in the port of Murmansk in the Barents Sea - has been under repair since November 2013 and that the work will take two years.
In 2011, the rubberised coating on another nuclear sub called the Yekaterinburg caught fire while it was under repair in Murmansk. Nine people needed medical treatment after inhaling noxious fumes.
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