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Tuesday, October 19th 2010, 4:23pm

1.0 General Information

Russian Federation Navy is organized into five major units; Northern Fleet, Baltic Sea Fleet, Black Sea Fleet, and Pacific Fleet, and Caspian Sea Flotilla. These units also control minor flotillas on rivers which flow into the ocean on which each fleet steams.

Each major unit has building yards, bases, and anchorages supporting them. Building yards consist of slipways on which warships are constructed. Bases consist of drydocks where ships may receive major maintenance or reconstruction. Anchorages have berths, ammunition storage and handling facilities, fuel storage and handling facilities, and facilities for minor repairs.

Major units of Navy are deployed as follows:

1st Battle Division - Baltic Sea Fleet, at Tallinn
Revanche (F) (Completed 1931)
Represselya

Attached ships:
Antiaircraft cruisers Izumrud and Rynda (Completed 1914, rebuilt 1939 and 1940 )
(ex Canadian, ex British HMS Chester and HMS Birkenhead)

Standard speed for 1st Battle Division is 15 kts.

1st Battle Squadron - Northern Fleet, at Murmansk
Soyuz Nerushimy (F) (Completed 1939)
Narodov Svobodnikh
Revolutsia
Demokratia

Standard speed for 1st Battle Squadron is 18 kts.


2nd Battle Squadron - Black Sea Fleet, at Sevastopol
Imperator Nikolai I (FF) (Completed 1919, rebuilt 1941-1942)
2nd BS/1st Battle Division
Sevastopol (F) (Completed 1915, rebuilt 1936-1937)
Poltava (Completed 1915, rebuilt 1939-1940)
2nd BS/2nd Battle Division
Imperitritsa Maria (F) (Completed 1915, rebuilt 1936-1937)
Emperitritsa Ekaterina II (Completed 1915, rebuilt 1939-1940)
Imperator Aleksandr III (Completed 1917, rebuilt 1941-1942)

The battle order if 2nd Battle Squadron is determined by the speeds of the ships. 1st Division leads, with a flank speed of 27 kts. Fleet flagship Imperator Nikolai I comes next, with a flank speed of 25 kts. 2nd Division brings up the rear with a flank speed of 23 kts.

Standard speed for 2nd Battlesquadron is 15 kts.


3rd Battle Squadron - Northern Fleet, at Murmansk
Imperator Petr Veliki (F) (Completed 1921, rebuilt 1936-1937)
Veliki Kniaz Dimitriy Donskoi
Veliki Kniaz Aleksandr Nevskiy
Veliki Kniaz Yaroslav Medniy

Standard speed for 1st Battle Squadron is 18 kts.


1st Battlecruiser Squadron - Northern Fleet, at Murmansk
Izmail (F) (Completed 1920, rebuilt 1937-1938 )
Borodino
Navarin
Kinburn

Standard speed for 1st Battle Squadron is 18 kts.


Aircraft carrier - Black Sea Fleet, at Sevastopol
Canopus (Converted Canopus class collier, completed 1922, refitted 1938 )

Aircraft Carriers - Northern Fleet, at Murmansk
Battle of Gangut (Completed 1926)
Battle of Sinop (Completed 1929)
Battle of Petropavlovsk (Completed 1929)
Battle of Kulikovo (Completed 1933)
Battle of Chesma (Completed 1936)
Battle of Kazan (Completed 1936)
Sirius (converted Canopus class collier, completed 1938 )
Battle of Azov (Completed 1941)
Battle of Osel Island (Completed 1941)
Battle of Grengam (Completed 1942)


Aircraft Carriers - Pacific Fleet, at Petropavlovsk
Strashniy (Completed 1924, Refitted 1938 )


Northern Fleet Carrier Group include following antiaircraft cruisers:
Saratov (Completed 1929)
Kazan
Tambov (Completed 1934)
Taganrog

Cruisers
1st Cruiser Squadron - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
Admiral Makarov (F) (Completed 1935)
Rossia
Gromoboi
Riurik

2nd Cruiser Squadron - Baltic Sea Fleet, Kronshtadt
Avrora (F) (Fully reconstructed 1930)
Diana
Bogatyr

3rd Cruiser Squadron - Baltic Sea Fleet, Tallinn
Oleg (F) (Fully reconstructed 1930)
Kagul
Ochakov

4th Cruiser Squadron - Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol
Admiral Lazarev (Completed 1919, refitted 1935-1936)
Admiral Makhimov
Admiral Kornilov
Admiral Istonin (F) - equipped with air and surface search radar, ILO minelaying fit

5th Cruiser Squadron - Northern fleet, Murmansk
Kniaz Sviatoslav (F) (Completed 1923, rebuilt 1935)
Kniaz Sviatopolk
Andrei Oslyaba
Aleksandr Peresvet

6th Cruiser Squadron - Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol
Admiral Bakatov (Completed 1919, refitted 1935-1936)
Admiral Spiridov
Admiral Creig
Admiral Svietlana (F) - equipped with air and surface search radar, ILO minelaying fit

7th Cruiser Squadron - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
General-Admiral Apraksin ((F) Completed 1923, refitted 1940)
Admiral Lefort
Admiral Golovin
General-Admiral Golytsin

8th Cruiser Squadron - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
Admiral Ushakov (F) (Completed 1925)
Admiral Essen
Admiral Spiridonov
Admiral Jones

9th Cruiser Squadron - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
Admiral Nakhimov (F) (Completed 1927)
Admiral Chikagov
Admiral Botsis
Admiral Menshikov

10th Cruiser Squadron - Baltic Sea Fleet, Tallinn
Minsk (F) (Completed 1928 )
Samarakand
Tula
Grozniy
Bryansk
Irkutsk

11th Cruiser Squadron - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
This squadron is tasked to provide escorts for merchant ship convoys.
Varyag (F) (Completed 1932)
Bayan
Pamyat' Mercurya
Pamyat' Azova

Attached ships:
CVE Castor (Converted Aldebaran class collier, rebuilt 1939)
CVE Pollux (Converted Aldebaran class collier, rebuilt 1940)
4 Sadko class Armed Merchant Escorts (Refitted to AME 1939)
5 Roza class corvettes (Refitted 1938 )
21 Roza class corvettes (Refitted 1939)
4 Lilya class corvettes (Refitted 1939)


12th Cruiser Squadron - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
Moskva (F) (Completed 1930)
Ekaterineberg
Murmansk
Maikop
Khabarovsk
Orel

13th Cruiser Squadron - Pacific Fleet, Cam Ranh Bay
Kiev (F) (Completed 1934)
Penza
Saransk
Kishinev
Vitebsk
Rovno

14th Cruiser Squadron - Pacific Fleet, Petropavlovsk
Admiral Senyavin (F) (Completed 1936)
Admiral Heiden
Admiral Nevelsky
Admiral Butackov

15th Cruiser Squadron - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
This is the squadron designated for supporting amphibious operations.
Askold (F) (Completed 1905, rebuilt 1940 as a command/fire support ship for amphibious operations)

Attached ships:
CVE Orion (Converted Aldebaran class collier, completed 1939)
6x Orphey class destroyer escorts (refitted 1932)

16th Cruiser Squadron - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
Ilya Muromets (F) (Completed 1942)
Dobrina Nikitich
Alexi Popovich
Igor Sviatoslavich

Destroyers
Caspian Sea Flotilla, Baku
1x Caspianskiy, gunnery testbed (Completed 1932)
1x Gift of Armenia (Yelnia class, Completed 1937)

1st Destroyer Flotilla - Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol
12x Yelnia class destroyers (Completed 1938 )

2nd Destroyer Flotilla - Baltic Sea Fleet, Tallinn
12x Parnu class destroyer escorts (Completed 1929)

3rd Destroyer Flotilla - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
12x Vinnitsa class destroyer escorts (Completed 1934)

4th Destroyer Flotilla - Baltic Sea Fleet, Kronshtatd
12x Novik class destroyer escorts (Rebuilt 1925)

5th Destroyer Flotilla - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
12x Vinnitsa class destroyer escorts (Completed 1934)

6th Destroyer Flotilla - Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol
12x Orphey class destroyer escorts (Refitted 1932)

7th Destroyer Flotilla - Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol
6x Orphey class destroyer escorts (Refitted 1932)

8th Destroyer Flotilla - Pacific Fleet, Petropavlovsk
12x Izyslav_II class destroyer escorts (Completed 1931)

9th Destroyer Flotilla - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
12x Tashkent class destroyer escorts (Completed 1921, refitted 1939)

10th Destroyer Flotilla - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
12x Kursk class destroyer escorts (Completed 1924)

11th Destroyer Flotilla - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
12x Voronezh class destroyer escorts (Completed 1926)

12th Destroyer Flotilla - Northern fleet, Murmansk
12x Pechora class destroyers (Completed 1940)

Submarines
1st Submarine Flotilla - Baltic Fleet, Kronshtadt
10x Bezmolvniy_II class coastal submarines (Completed 1932)

2nd Submarine flotilla - Baltic Fleet, Tallinn
10x Bezmolvniy_II class coastal submarines (Completed 1932)

3rd Submarine flotilla - Baltic Fleet, Tallinn
10x Bezmolvniy_II class coastal submarines (Completed 1932)

4th Submarine Flotilla - Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol
10x Bezmolvniy_II class coastal submarines (Completed 1933)

5th Submarine Flotilla - Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol
10x Bezmolvniy_II class coastal submarines (Completed 1933)

6th Submarine Flotilla - Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol
10x Bezmolvniy_II class coastal submarines (Completed 1932)

7th Submarine Flotilla - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
10x Molchkom class coastal submarines (Completed 1928 )

8th Submarine Flotilla - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
10x Molchkom class coastal submarines (Completed 1930)

9th Submarine Flotilla - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
10x Bars class fleet submarines (Completed 1932)

10th Submarine Flotilla - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
10x Bezmolvniy_II class coastal submarines (Completed 1933)

11th Submarine Flotilla - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
10x Khitriy class coastal submarines (Completed 1925)

12th Submarine Flotilla - Pacific Fleet, Vladivostok
10x Khitriy class coastal submarines (Completed 1925)

13th Submarine Flotilla - Pacific Fleet, Petropavlovsk
10x Khitriy class coastal submarines (Completed 1926)

14th Submarine Flotilla - Pacific Fleet, Vladivostok
10x Khitriy class coastal submarines (Completed 1926)

15th Submarine Flotilla - Pacific Fleet, Cam Ranh Bay
10x Kovarniy class fleet submarines (Refitted 1927)

16th Submarine Flotilla - Pacific Fleet, Cam Ranh Bay
10x Kovarniy class fleet submarines (Refitted 1927)

17th Submarine Flotilla - Northern Fleet, Murmansk
10x Bars class fleet submarines (Completed 1933)

18th Submarine Flotilla - Pacific Fleet, Petropavlovsk
10x Besshumniy class coastal submarines (Completed 1937)

19th Submarine Flotilla - Pacific Fleet, Petropavlovsk
10x Besshumniy class coastal submarines (Completed 1938 )

20th Submarine Flotilla - Pacific Fleet, Petropavlovsk
10x Delfin class fleet submarines (Completed 1941 )

This post has been edited 7 times, last edit by "AdmKuznetsov" (May 10th 2012, 9:22pm)