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Pages in category "Russian and Soviet Navy submarine bases". The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Two Northern Fleet submarines made a 25,000-nautical-mile (46,000 km; 29,000 mi) journey "around the world" (actually only between the Kola Gulf and the base at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy around South America) without surfacing in 1966. The Northern Fleet had almost 50% of the Soviet Navy's submarines by 1986. [6]
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 ...
Russian and Soviet Navy submarine bases (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Russian and Soviet Navy bases" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
Yasen-class submarine. The Yasen class, Russian designations Project 885 Yasen and Project 885M Yasen-M (Russian: Ясень, lit. ' ash tree ', NATO reporting name: Severodvinsk), also referred to as the Graney class, are a series of nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines designed by the Malakhit Marine Engineering Bureau and built by ...
In 1941-1944 naval vessels of this base participated in carrying out of landing operations in areas Strelna, Peterhof, on Lake Ladoga, in the Vyborg and in the Narva gulfs. During the blockade of Leningrad the fleet provided communication of the besieged city with the country through Lake Ladoga. 1.7 million tons of cargo were transported and 1 ...
Severomorsk is the main administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet. The town is situated on the coast of the Barents Sea along the Kola Bay 25 kilometers (16 mi) northeast of Murmansk, the administrative centre of the oblast, to which it is connected by railway and a motorway.
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. In May 2020 Novatek proposed to ...