In late October 2012, it was reported that "Sevmorput", which had been lying idle at the Atomflot base outside Murmansk since 2007, had been removed from the Russian Ship Register in July and would be sold for scrap. However, in December 2013 it was reported that the decision to decommission the nuclear-powered ship had been cancelled and that the vessel would be brought back to service by February 2016. Following a two-year refit and refueling of the reactor, "Sevmorput" left Murmansk in November 2015 for the first time in nine years to carry out sea trials in the Barents Sea.