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See Pala Bay Ship Graveyard, Murmansk, Russia
Pala Bay (Guba Pala) is approximately 4 kilometers long, Pala Bay juts southwest and lies southeast of Olenya Bay. It has a very narrow entrance, only 500 meters wide, which is partially blocked by a small island, making the navigational passage only 200 to 300 meters.
There are a few ship that have been beached at the western end of the bay. Including Northern Fleet support vessels PKZ-112 and TNT-8 of project 1783A - "Vala", built in the late 60s on the basis of a non-self-propelled barge, which served to transport liquid radioactive waste.
Note: This is a ZATO area, which can only be accessed by passes.The submarine repair facility reportedly includes two covered floating dry docks, and has docked and worked on Kefal I and II [NATO Names: Victor I and Victor II] SSNs, Kit [NATO Name: November] SSNs, and Barrakuda [NATO Name: Sierra] SSNs.The Amur and Vala class radioactive waste transport ships have been seen at the Pala Bay repair facility, and Russian sources note that Pala Bay also contains a radioactive waste storage facility on the eastern side of the Bay.
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