The accident involving the cruise liner Maxim Gorky and an iceberg in arctic waters Tuesday is the latest in a series of Soviet shipping mishaps in the 1980s.
Others have included:April 7, 1989 - a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine caught fire and sank off the Norwegian coast, killing 42 seamen. The accident occurred to the southeast of Tuesday's collision.
May 18, 1988 - fire broke out on the cruise liner Priamurye in the Japanese port of Osaka, killing 11 passengers.
November 1986 - a fire in the engine room of the cruise ship Turkmenia killed two crew members in the Sea of Japan off the far eastern port of Nakhodka. Three hundred schoolchildren aboard escaped.
October 1986 - a nuclear-powered submarine exploded and sank off the U.S. eastern seaboard near Bermuda, killing three crew members.
August 1986 - the passenger liner Admiral Nakhi-mov collided with the cargo ship Pyotr Vasev off the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, killing 398 people. The captains of both vessels received 15-year prison terms.
February 1986 - the cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov sank in a narrow sound off New Zealand after hitting a reef, killing one crewman. An inquiry blamed the New Zealand pilot for trying to negotiate the passage.
June 1983 - the passenger steamer Alexander Suvorov rammed a railway bridge on the Volga river near the city of Ulyanovsk, killing more than 100 tourists when the top deck of the vessel was torn off.
February 1982 - the freighter Mikhanik Tarasov sank off Canada's east coast, killing about 120 men.