K419 is now Kuzbass according to USNI reference. I don't know where they got this info. And K419 was commissioned in 1992, so that would make it 13 years old. But K419 is represented in DW as Project 971, not 971U. I think that's not correct, though. I believe, by every source I've recently seen that K419 is an Akula-I Improved. But I can't verify the name change other than what is reported by the USNI database.
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