Black Sea Fleet
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regional command of the Russian (and former Soviet) Navy
Key facts
- Active
- 13 May 1783 – present
- Allegiance
- Russian Empire (1783–1917) Soviet Russia (1918–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1991) Commonwealth of Independent States (1991–1992) Russian Federation (1992–present)
- Branch
- Russian Navy
- Role
- Naval warfare ;, Amphibious military operations ;, Combat patrols in the Black Sea and occupied Sea of Azov
- Part of
- Russian Armed Forces
- Garrison hq
- Sevastopol ( HQ ), Feodosia ( Crimea ) , Novorossiysk HQ , Tuapse , Temryuk ( Krasnodar Krai ) , Taganrog ( Rostov Oblast )
- Anniversaries
- 13 May
- Engagements
- See list: Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) Battle of Tendra Crimean War Battle of Sinop World War I Battle of Cape Sarych Russian Civil War World War II Crimean offensive Russo-Georgian War Russo-Ukrainian War Russian invasion of Ukraine Syrian civil war
- Current commander
- Adm. Sergei Pinchuk
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Soviet Navy
- Country
- Russia
- Founded by
- Gregory Potyomkin
- Headquarters
- Sevastopol
- Conflict
- Seventh Russo-Turkish War
- Military branch
- Russian Navy
- Image
- Russian Black Sea Fleet after the battle of Synope 1853.jpg
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- Commons category
- Black Sea fleet of Russia
- topic's main category
- Category:Black Sea fleet of Russia
- inception
- 1783-05-13
- allegiance
- Russia
- different from
- Black Sea Fleet
- native label
- Черноморский флот ВМФ России
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
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 the Mediterranean Sea. The Black Sea Fleet, along with other Russian ground and air forces on the Crimean Peninsula, are subordinate to the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces. The fleet traces its history to its founding by Prince Potemkin on 13 May 1783 as part of the Imperial Russian Navy. The Russian SFSR inherited the fleet in 1918; with the founding of the Soviet Union in 1922, it became part of the Soviet Navy. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Black Sea Fleet was partitioned between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in 1997, with Russia receiving title to 82% of the vessels.
The Black Sea Fleet has its official primary headquarters and facilities at the Sevastopol Naval Base, Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The rest of the fleet's facilities are based in locations on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, including Krasnodar Krai, Rostov Oblast and Crimea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Black Sea Fleet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.