To simplify the installation of equipment, the boat was designed using zonal blocks, which made it possible to transfer a significant amount of work from the cramped conditions of the sub's compartments directly to the workshop.

After completion of the installation, the zonal unit is “rolled” into the hull of the boat and connected to the main cables and pipelines of the ship's systems.

[9] On 10 July 1993, a boat under the command of Captain 1st Rank A.A. Appolonov with a marching headquarters on board, arrived at a permanent base in Krasheninnikov Bay in Kamchatka.

From October to December 1995, the tasks of the first combat service off the western shores of the United States were completed in a tough anti-submarine warfare system by the US PLC.

On 27 February 1998, by order of the Navy General Committee of 29 January 1998, he was rename Kuzbass, after which the combat patrol missions were successfully completed.

In July 2008, the boat took part in the KTOF Naval Parade in the Amur Bay dedicated to the Day of the Navy.

Since 2009, the nuclear submarine has been undergoing repairs at the Zvezda shipyard in Bolshoy Kamen, which was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013.

On 18 December, the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and the Governor of the Primorsky Territory Vladimir Miklushevsky were shown a modernized boat.

[12] On 22 December 2015, the boat was ready for a checkout to the sea with the subsequent transfer to the main basing point until the end of March 2016.