Lieutenant Yevgeny Kolbasyev and Pyotr Koshka, the First Electric Submarine in Russia

If you wish to reflect on the development of the Russian Empire towards the end of its existence, imagine that by the 1900s Russia already had a submarine of its own and, in all likelihood, more than one.

In the photograph, presumably of 1901, is Russia's first electrically powered submarine, which bore the splendid name Pyotr Koshka, after the hero of the defence of Sevastopol.

The author of this top-secret project was Lieutenant Yevgeny Viktorovich Kolbasyev.

The vessel was of sectional construction, was fitted with 2 external torpedoes and could accommodate a crew of 3

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