First - The Russians are not the example of how to handle anything related to nuclear.
Second - You don’t pull control rods out to stop the reaction, you put them in.
The only Russian sub I am aware of that was almost lost to nuke problems was one that had a coolant leak. Which one are you referring to.
the one in the James Bond movie?
I guess there are many russian accidents. I might be refering to the k19 one. I read about it but forgot which it was.