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Crews of the Black Sea Fleet’s minesweepers practiced searching for and destroying mines in Black Sea waters, including shipping lanes during drills, the Fleet’s press office reported on Monday. “Amid…
The series of large landing ships of Project 11711 will be continued; a decision has been made to build another pair of large landing ships for the Black Sea Fleet.…
Reprinted from TASS The diesel-electric submarine of the Black Sea Fleet “Krasnodar” of project 636.3 (code “Varshavyanka”) will go to the Baltic, leaving the permanent operational formation of the Russian…
Four fleets and the Caspian flotilla of the Russian Navy will return to the direct subordination of the Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Nikolai Evmenov by December 1, when the new academic…
The Black Sea Fleet’s patrol ship Sergey Kotov detected and destroyed a drifting Ukrainian mine northeast of the Bosporus Strait, the Fleet’s press office reported on Wednesday. “The Black Sea…
The Project 22800 Karakurt-class latest missile corvette Tsiklon built at the Zaliv Shipyard in Kerch has joined the Russian Navy, the Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday. “Today an official ceremony…
Large amphibious assault ships (BDK) of the Russian Navy have begun transporting vehicles through the Kerch Strait, the Russian Defense Ministry said. “Today, the first voyage from the port of…
Tatarstan-based Zelenodolsk Plant named after M. Gorky (a company of AK BARS HOLDING) has launched small missile ship of Project 22800, Tucha, according to the Government of the Republic of…
For most citizens of the EU and Russia, the Black Sea was probably primarily a tourist concept until spring 2022: Varna and Sevastopol were and are the tourist strongholds on…