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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Inspection of the Black Sea Fleet in 1849, 1886. This is a list of Russian ships of the line from the period 1668–1860: The format is: Name, number of guns (rank/real amount), launch year (A = built in Arkhangelsk), fate (service = combat service, BU = broken up)
The Andrei Pervozvanny-class battleships became the only battleships of the Old World fitted with lattice masts, [a] which were replaced with conventional masts at the beginning of World War I. The imposing ships, the largest in the Russian Navy until the completion of Gangut, [b] were dated from the start: by the time of their sea trials the ...
After the end of the disastrous Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, the Imperial Russian Navy needed several years to absorb the lessons of that war, particularly from the Battle of Tsushima. Design work continued during this period, but designs for dreadnought battleships evolved constantly as new requirements were made.
Naval battles of the Russo-Japanese War (9 P) Naval battles of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) (9 P) Naval battles of the Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) (2 P)
Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia ... Battleships of the Soviet Union. ... Russo-Japanese War battleships of Russia (21 P) B. Battleships of the ...
This is a list of wars and armed conflicts involving Russia and its predecessors in chronological order, from the 9th to the 21st century.. The Russian military and troops of its predecessor states in Russia took part in a large number of wars and armed clashes in various parts of the world: starting from the princely squads, opposing the raids of nomads, and fighting for the expansion of the ...
The utter destruction of Russian naval power at Tsushima was the climactic action of the Russo-Japanese War. The Russian fleet had suffered such attrition from Japanese mines and combat with the Japanese fleet during 1904 that the Russian high command made the fateful decision to dispatch the Baltic Fleet in October of that year to the Pacific ...
Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet troops left the country. 23 August: Singing Revolution: Two million people joined hands to form the Baltic Way across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to demonstrate for independence. 9 November: The East German government loosened restrictions on travel into the West, effecting the end of the Berlin Wall. 28 ...