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Russian Baltic Fleet
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regional command of the Russian (and formerly Soviet) Navy
Key facts
- Active
- 18 May 1703 – present
- Branch
- Russian Navy
- Role
- Naval warfare , Amphibious warfare , Combat patrols in the Baltic , Naval presence/diplomacy missions in the Atlantic and elsewhere
- Part of
- Russian Armed Forces , Leningrad Military District (2024–)
- Garrison hq
- Kaliningrad (HQ), Baltiysk , Kronstadt
- Anniversaries
- 18 May
- Decorations
- Order of the Red Banner (2)
- Current commander
- Vice Admiral Sergei Lipilin
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Baltic Fleet (Russian: Балтийский флот, romanized: Baltiyskiy flot) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea.
Established 18 May 1703, under Tsar Peter the Great as part of the Imperial Russian Navy, the Baltic Fleet is the oldest Russian fleet. In 1918, the fleet was inherited by the Russian SFSR which then founded the Soviet Union in 1922, where it was eventually known as the Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet as part of the Soviet Navy, as during this period it gained the two awards of the Order of the Red Banner. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Baltic Fleet was inherited by the Russian Federation and reverted to its original name as part of the Russian Navy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Russian Baltic Fleet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.