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The Alrosa, the one and only submarine owned by the Russian Black Sea Fleet, will undertake its first deployment in the Mediterranean Sea, which will continue for three months, a military-diplomatic source told Interfax-AVN on Friday.

"The Alrosa will rise to the surface to pass through the Bosphorus in summer. The Turkish authorities will be notified of it. However, this issue has not yet been completely settled," he said.