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The Pacific Fleet (Russian: Тихоокеанский флот, romanized: Tikhookeansky flot [1]) is the Russian Navy fleet in the Pacific Ocean.Established in 1731 as part of the Imperial Russian Navy, the fleet was known as the Okhotsk Military Flotilla (1731–1856) and Siberian Military Flotilla (1856–1918), formed to defend Russian interests in the Russian Far East region along the ...
Kaspiysk naval base Dagestan: HQ, Caspian Flotilla. 177th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Regiment. 51st Separate Coastal Missile Battalion. Bal; Frigates, gunboats, corvettes, minesweepers, landing craft [37] [38] [39] Trudfront naval base Astrakhan Oblast: Landing craft, support ships Astrakhan naval base Astrakhan Oblast [40] Makhachkala ...
Troops of the Russian 102nd Military Base at Republic Square, Yerevan during the 2016 Armenian Independence Day military parade. This article lists military bases of Russia abroad. The majority of Russia's military bases and facilities are located in former Soviet republics; which in Russian political parlance is termed the "near abroad".
Warships of Russia's Pacific Fleet, together with a detachment of Chinese navy ships travelled more than 7,000 nautical miles through the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea and the ...
Bechevinka (Russian: Бечевинка) was a naval base of the Soviet and Russian Navies in a remote portion of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It was established in the 1960s for use by submarines of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. The site was abandoned in 1996 and is currently a tourist destination as a ghost town.
The list includes overseas Russian airbases including those in Russian occupied Crimea. It can be compared with the List of Soviet Air Force bases; virtually no new airbase construction has taken place since 1991. The main air armies are the: 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Army which is part of the Southern Military District
The Russian Navy [a] is the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces.It has existed in various forms since 1696. Its present iteration was formed in January 1992 when it succeeded the Navy of the Commonwealth of Independent States (which had itself succeeded the Soviet Navy following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late December 1991).
As a result of the 2008 Russian military reforms, the units of the Russian Naval Aviation were reorganized into 13 new Naval Air Bases. Each new naval air base consists of an HQ, support units and one or more aviation groups/wings (the former air bases). In a second stage, the air bases were merged into territorially integrated structures.