One of the exhibits of the museum reflecting the specifics of Severodvinsk as a city of shipbuilders and sailors is the chair of a submarine commander. The city-forming enterprises of the city are the permanent consultants and partners of the city museum. Halls dedicated to the peculiarities of the city of shipbuilders, such as ‘Museum Submarine’ and ‘Molotovsk-Severodvinsk. The 20th century’ were created with the support of the Severodvinsk plants. In 2009, the ‘Zvezdochka’ enterprise handed over to the museum the seat of the commander of the project 667 BDR ‘Borisoglebsk’ submarine.
The seat is located behind the command console at the submarine’s central control room. It is permanently attached, but rotates 360 degrees around its axis. This design was developed in the 1960s: a comfortable reclining backrest, a headrest, and retractable armrests allowed the commander to be at a combat post for a long time. According to unspoken rules, only one person can sit in the chair - the submarine commander himself. It is he who bears full responsibility for the ship.
Many visitors to the exhibition notice that the command chair is very similar to the patient’s chair in a dental office. This can be explained by the fact that when developing second-generation submarines, the engineers were faced with the task of coming up with such a design so that it would be comfortable to sit, and it would take up little space, as well as the operation of all instruments being observed without difficulty. It turned out that a similar chair had already been made by the designers of medical equipment — with some changes, the solution was applied to all modifications of the 667 project.
This is a chair from the 667-BDR ‘Borisoglebsk’ submarine, the largest missile submarine. It was laid down on September 23, 1975 at the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise. Nikolay Kireychev was the responsible deliverer, and the first commander was Pyotr Omelchenko. During its time in the country’s Navy, the cruiser performed 22 combat services and 31 rocket firings. The boat was repaired three times at the Severodvinsk enterprise “Zvezdochka”, here in 2009 it was disposed of.
The seat is located behind the command console at the submarine’s central control room. It is permanently attached, but rotates 360 degrees around its axis. This design was developed in the 1960s: a comfortable reclining backrest, a headrest, and retractable armrests allowed the commander to be at a combat post for a long time. According to unspoken rules, only one person can sit in the chair - the submarine commander himself. It is he who bears full responsibility for the ship.
Many visitors to the exhibition notice that the command chair is very similar to the patient’s chair in a dental office. This can be explained by the fact that when developing second-generation submarines, the engineers were faced with the task of coming up with such a design so that it would be comfortable to sit, and it would take up little space, as well as the operation of all instruments being observed without difficulty. It turned out that a similar chair had already been made by the designers of medical equipment — with some changes, the solution was applied to all modifications of the 667 project.
This is a chair from the 667-BDR ‘Borisoglebsk’ submarine, the largest missile submarine. It was laid down on September 23, 1975 at the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise. Nikolay Kireychev was the responsible deliverer, and the first commander was Pyotr Omelchenko. During its time in the country’s Navy, the cruiser performed 22 combat services and 31 rocket firings. The boat was repaired three times at the Severodvinsk enterprise “Zvezdochka”, here in 2009 it was disposed of.
