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    The Black Sea Fleet (Russian: Черноморский флот, romanized: Chernomorskiy flot) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and...
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    penetrated Russian air defenses and struck the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in occupied Sevastopol, Crimea. The strike was part of the war resulting...
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    2020s. Northern Fleet (NF) - Severomorsk Pacific Fleet (PF) - Fokino, Primorsky Krai Black Sea Fleet (BSF) - Sevastopol Baltic Fleet (BF) - Kaliningrad...
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    forces, and currently comprises the Northern Fleet, the Pacific Fleet, the Black Sea Fleet, the Baltic Fleet, the Caspian Flotilla, the permanent task force...
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  • forces. The Black Sea Fleet was as surprised by Operation Barbarossa as the rest of the Soviet military. The Axis forces in the Black Sea consisted of...
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    The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus...
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    The Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet consists of three bilateral agreements between Russia and Ukraine signed on 28...
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    of the Black Sea Fleet. He holds the rank of admiral. In 2016, as deputy commander, Sokolov was in charge of a detachment of the Northern Fleet engaged...
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    Soviet fleet they belonged to: the 100-series belonged to the Pacific Fleet, the 200-series to the Black Sea Fleet, the 300-series to the Baltic Fleet, and...
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    the Black Sea Fleet Volya swore fealty to the Central Rada, followed soon by several ships and submarines. In December 1917 the Black Seas Fleet squadron...
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    the lack of free access to the Atlantic via the Øresund, just as the Black Sea Fleet could not always rely on passage through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles...
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    in 2011. In 2018 he took command of the Black Sea Fleet, and oversaw a period of expansion within the fleet. He has also courted controversy with regards...
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    defence: "The Northern Fleet dates its history back to a squadron created in 1733 to protect the territories of the Russian Empire, sea trade routes and fisheries...
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    The base is used by the Russian Navy, and it is the main base of the Black Sea Fleet. Internationally it's recognised as Ukrainian land under Russian occupation...
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    known until then, was organized in two sections: the Danube fleet and the Black Sea fleet. The riverine base was at Galați, while the maritime base was...
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    Russia over the Soviet Fleet, although a 1997 treaty partitioned the Soviet Black Sea Fleet allowing Russia to continue basing its fleet in Sevastopol with...
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  • Central Council of Ukraine at the command of the Black Sea Fleet. In November 1917, the Sahaidachny Sea Battalion (kurin) was established in Sevastopol...
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    intervention in the Syrian civil war. All four ships of the Russia's Black Sea Fleet, namely Tsezar Kunikov, Novocherkassk, Yamal and Azov, were modernized...
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    Wrangel's fleet was the last remnant of the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy and existed from 1920 until 1924. This squadron was a White (anti-Bolshevik)...
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    Saratov was a Tapir-class landing ship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy. She was destroyed on 24 March 2022, while in the port of Berdyansk...
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    short career in the Black Sea Fleet as she was sunk on 26 June 1941. Kharkov participated in most of the battles on the Black Sea coast, but was sunk...
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    regiment under the Baltic Fleet, an infantry battalion in the Black Sea Fleet and the Vladivostok Battalion for the Pacific Fleet. In August 1914, two separate...
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  • Russian Black Sea Fleet appeared. By the end of 1915, the Black Sea Fleet secured almost complete control over the Black Sea. The Black Sea Fleet was also...
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    The Black Sea raid was an Ottoman naval sortie against Russian ports in the Black Sea on 29 October 1914, supported by Germany, that led to the Ottoman...
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    Russian cruiser Moskva (category Military history of the Black Sea)
    city of Moscow. With a crew of 510, Moskva was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet and the most powerful warship in the region. The cruiser was deployed...
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    was modified in 1928 to improve her sea-keeping abilities so that she could be transferred to the Black Sea Fleet. This proved to be the first of a series...
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    46°56′48″N 31°58′48″E / 46.9467°N 31.9800°E / 46.9467; 31.9800 The Black Sea Shipyard (Ukrainian: Чорноморський суднобудівний завод; Russian: Черноморский...
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  • the Black Sea shipyards, Smyshlyony and Soobrazitelny, joined the 3rd Destroyer Division, led by destroyer leaders Kharkov and Moskva, of the fleet Light...
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    Heading to Black Sea Fleet". SeaWaves Magazine. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2022. "Vsevolod Bobrov Maiden Arrival in Novorossiysk". SeaWaves Magazine...
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    anticipation of the siege of Sevastopol, the Russians scuttled ships of the Black Sea Fleet to protect the harbour, to use their naval cannon as additional artillery...
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