
K19’s Relationship With The Bering Strait Swim
Oleg Adamov was one of the swimmers on the Bering Strait Swim. While he was part of history with the 6-day 53-mile (86 km) relay crossing from Cape Dezhnev in Russia to Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska, he was also part of history in another setting. Captain Adamov was the last commanding officer on the K19 submarine between 1997 and 2001 and a consultant