[3] The design is double-hulled, with a distance between a light and durable body of 3.5 meters, which provides a significant buoyancy margin, up to 30%, and provides additional protection against underwater explosions.

During his first combat service in the Mediterranean, the submarine supported the actions of a detachment of ships of the Russian Navy headed by the TAVKR Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov.

[10] On 8 June 2014, Voronezh rescued the crew of the Barents-1100 small boat in the White Sea, which ran out of fuel while trying to bypass the area with unfavorable weather conditions.

In September, while participating in tactical exercises of diverse forces of the Northern Fleet, the submarine performed single firing from a submerged position at a sea surface target with a Granit cruise missile.

[11] In October 2017, he successfully fired an anti-ship cruise missile Granit at a conditional target in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago area.

[12] He was put into reserve before decommissioning, and in July 2020 the name Voronezh was given to a new laid down nuclear submarine of Project 885M Yasen-M for the Northern Fleet.