Soviet Navy
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The Soviet Navy
The Soviet Navy was divided into four major fleets: the
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The Soviet Navy was formed from the remnants of the
Early history
Russian Civil War (1917–1922)
The Soviet Navy was based on a republican naval force formed from the remnants of the Imperial Russian Navy, which had been almost completely destroyed in the two Revolutions of 1917 (February and October/November) during World War I (1914–1918), the following Russian Civil War (1917–1922), and the Kronstadt rebellion in 1921. During the revolutionary period, Russian sailors deserted their ships at will and generally neglected their duties. The officers were dispersed (some were killed by the Red Terror, some joined the "White" (anti-communist) opposing armies, and others simply resigned) and most of the sailors walked off and left their ships. Work stopped in the shipyards, where uncompleted ships deteriorated rapidly.
The
The ships remaining in Sevastopol were captured by the Germans and then, after the later Armistice of 11 November 1918 on the Western Front which ended the War, additional Russian ships were confiscated by the British. On 1 April 1919, during the ensuing Russian Civil War when Red Army forces captured Crimea, the British Royal Navy squadron had to withdraw, but before leaving they damaged all the remaining battleships and sank thirteen new submarines.
When the opposing
The first ship of the revolutionary navy could be considered the rebellious Imperial Russian
The Soviet Navy, established as the "Workers' and Peasants' Red Fleet"
As the country's attentions were largely directed internally, the Navy did not have much funding or training. An indicator of its reputation was that the Soviets were not invited to participate in negotiations for the Washington Naval Treaty of 1921–1922, which limited the size and capabilities of the most powerful navies – British, American, Japanese, French, Italian. The greater part of the old fleet was sold by the Soviet government to post-war Germany for scrap.
In the Baltic Sea there remained only three much-neglected battleships, two cruisers, some ten destroyers, and a few submarines. Despite this state of affairs, the Baltic Fleet remained a significant naval formation, and the Black Sea Fleet also provided a basis for expansion. There also existed some thirty minor-waterways combat flotillas.
Interwar period (1922–1941)
During the 1930s, as the
In subsequent years, 133 submarines were built to designs developed during Malinin's management. Additional developments included the formation of the Pacific Fleet in 1932 and the Northern Fleet in 1933.[5] The forces were to be built around a core of powerful Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleships. This building program was only in its initial stages by the time the German invasion forced its suspension in 1941.
By the end of 1937, the biggest fleet was the Baltic Fleet based at Leningrad, with two battleships, one training cruiser, eight destroyers including one destroyer leader, five patrol ships, two minesweepers, and some more older minesweepers.[6] The Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol included one battleship, three cruisers, one training cruiser, five destroyers, two patrol ships, and four minesweepers. The Northern Fleet operating from the shores of Kola Bay and Polyarny was made up of three destroyers and three patrol ships, while the Pacific Fleet had two destroyers, transferred east in 1936, and six patrol ships assembled in the Far East.
The Soviet Navy had some minor action in the Winter War against Finland in 1939–1940, on the Baltic Sea. It was limited mainly to cruisers and battleships fighting artillery duels with Finnish forts.[citation needed]
World War II: The Great Patriotic War (1941–1945)
Building a Soviet fleet was a national priority, but many senior officers were killed in the Great Purge in the late 1930s.[7] The naval share of the national armaments budget fell from 11.5% in 1941 to 6.6% in 1944.[8]
When the Soviet Union entered the Second World War, during
The composition of the Soviet fleets in 1941 included:[10]
- 3 battleships,
- 7 cruisers
- 59 destroyers (including 46 modern Soobrazitelny-classdestroyers),
- 218 submarines,
- 269 torpedo boats,
- 22 patrol vessels,
- 88 minesweepers,
- 77 submarine chasers,
- and a range of other smaller vessels.
In various stages of completion were another 219 vessels including 3 battleships, 2 heavy and 7 light cruisers, 45 destroyers, and 91 submarines.
Included in the totals above are some pre-World War I ships (
In the Baltic Sea, after Tallinn's capture, surface ships were blockaded in Leningrad and Kronstadt by minefields, where they participated with the anti-aircraft defence of the city and bombarded German positions. One example of Soviet resourcefulness was the battleship Marat, an ageing pre-World War I ship sunk at anchor in Kronstadt's harbour by German Junkers Ju 87 aircraft in 1941. For the rest of the war, the non-submerged part of the ship remained in use as a grounded battery. Submarines, although suffering great losses due to German and Finnish anti-submarine actions, had a major role in the war at sea by disrupting Axis navigation in the Baltic Sea.
In the Black Sea, many ships were damaged by minefields and Axis aviation, but they helped defend naval bases and supply them while besieged, as well as later evacuating them. Heavy naval guns and sailors helped defend port cities during long sieges by Axis armies. In the Arctic Ocean, Soviet Northern Fleet destroyers (Novik class, Type 7, and Type 7U) and smaller craft participated with the anti-aircraft and anti-submarine defence of Allied convoys conducting Lend-Lease cargo shipping. In the Pacific Ocean, the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan before 1945, so some destroyers were transferred to the Northern Fleet.[9]
From the beginning of hostilities, Soviet Naval Aviation provided air support to naval and land operations involving the Soviet Navy. This service was responsible for the operation of shore-based floatplanes, long-range flying boats, catapult-launched and vessel-based planes, and land-based aircraft designated for naval use.
As post-war spoils, the Soviets received several Italian and Japanese warships and much German naval engineering and architectural documentation.
Cold War (1945–1991)
In February 1946, the Red Fleet was renamed and became known as the Soviet Navy (Russian: Советский Военно-Морской Флот, romanized: Sovyetsky Voyenno-Morskoy Flot, lit. 'Soviet Military Maritime Fleet').[12] After the war, the Soviets concluded that they needed a navy that could disrupt supply lines, and display a small naval presence to the developing world.[13] As the natural resources the Soviet Union needed were available on the Eurasian landmass, it did not need a navy to protect a large commercial fleet, as the western navies were configured to do.[13] Later, countering seaborne nuclear delivery systems became another significant objective of the navy, and an impetus for expansion.[13]
The Soviet Navy was structured around submarines and small, maneuverable, tactical vessels.[13] The Soviet shipbuilding program kept yards busy constructing submarines based upon World War II German Kriegsmarine designs, which were launched with great frequency during the immediate post-war years. Afterwards, through a combination of indigenous research and technology obtained through espionage from Nazi Germany and the Western nations, the Soviets gradually improved their submarine designs.
The Soviets were quick to equip their surface fleet with missiles of various sorts. Indeed, it became a feature of Soviet design to place large missiles onto relatively small, but fast, missile boats, while in the West such an approach would never have been considered tactically feasible. The Soviet Navy did also possess several very large and well-armed guided-missile cruisers, like those of the Kirov and Slava classes. By the 1970s, Soviet submarine technology was in some respects more advanced than in the West, and several of their submarine types were considered superior to their American rivals.[14]
The 5th Operational Squadron (ru:5-я Средиземноморская эскадра кораблей ВМФ)[15] operated in the Mediterranean Sea. The squadron's main function was to prevent largescale naval ingress into the Black Sea, which could bypass the need for any invasion to be over the Eurasian land mass.[13] The flagship of the squadron was for a long period the Sverdlov-class cruiser Zhdanov.
Carriers and aviation
In the strategic planning laid by the Soviet strategists, the aircraft carriers had little importance and received little attention in a view of supporting the naval strategy of disrupting sea lines of communication – nonetheless, the program of aircraft carriers pursued as way of keeping up the competition with the U.S. Navy.[13]
The Soviet Navy still had the mission of confronting Western submarines, creating a need for large surface vessels to carry anti-submarine helicopters. During 1968 and 1969 the Moskva-class helicopter carriers were first deployed, succeeded by the first of four aircraft-carrying cruisers of the Kiev class in 1973. Both of these types were capable of operating ASW helicopters, and the Kiev class also operated V/STOL aircraft (e.g., the Yak-38 'Forger'); they were designed to operate for fleet defense, primarily within range of land-based Soviet Naval Aviation aircraft.
During the 1970s the Soviets began Project 1153 Orel (Eagle), whose stated purpose was to create an aircraft carrier capable of basing fixed-wing fighter aircraft in defense of the deployed fleet. The project was canceled during the planning stages when strategic priorities shifted once more.
It was during the 1980s that the Soviet Navy acquired its first true aircraft carrier,
A distinctive feature of Soviet aircraft carriers has been their offensive missile armament (as well as long-range anti-aircraft warfare armament), again representing a fleet-defense operational concept, in distinction to the Western emphasis on shore-strike missions from distant deployment. A second carrier (pre-commissioning name Varyag) was under construction when the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991. Construction stopped and the ship was sold later, incomplete, to the People's Republic of China by Ukraine, which inherited part of the old Soviet fleet after the break-up of the USSR. It was commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy in 2012 as the Liaoning.
Soon after the launch of this second Kuznetsov-class ship, the Soviet Navy began the construction of an improved aircraft carrier design, Ulyanovsk, which was to have been slightly larger than the Kuznetsov class and nuclear-powered. The project was terminated, and what little structure had been initiated in the building ways was scrapped.
In part to perform the functions usual to carrier-borne aircraft, the Soviet Navy deployed large numbers of
Submarines
Due to the Soviet Union's geographic position, submarines were considered the capital ships of the Navy. Submarines could penetrate attempts at blockade, either in the constrained waters of the Baltic and Black Seas or in the remote reaches of the USSR's western Arctic, while surface ships were clearly much easier to find and attack. The USSR had entered the Second World War with more submarines than Germany, but geography and the speed of the German attack precluded it from effectively using its more numerous fleet to its advantage. Because of its opinion that "quantity had a quality of its own" and at the insistence of Admiral of the Fleet Sergey Gorshkov, the Soviet Navy continued to operate many first-generation missile submarines, built in the early 1960s, until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
In some respects, including speed and reactor technology, Soviet submarines achieved unique successes, but for most of the era lagged their Western counterparts in overall capability. In addition to their relatively high speeds and great operating depths they were difficult anti-submarine warfare (ASW) targets to destroy because of their multiple compartments, their large reserve buoyancy, and especially their double-hulled design.[18]
Their principal shortcomings were insufficient noise-damping (American boats were quieter) and primitive sonar technology. Acoustics was a particularly interesting type of information that the Soviets sought about the West's submarine-production methods, and the long-active John Anthony Walker spy ring may have made a major contribution to their knowledge of such.[18]
The Soviet Navy possessed numerous purpose-built
Transition
After the
- Baltic Sea: Lithuanian Navy. All three countries joined NATO in 2004.
- Black Sea: battle off Abkhazia in 2008. Most of the Ukrainian Navy ships were captured back during the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federationin 2014.
- Caspian Sea: Azerbaijani Navy, Kazakh Navy and Turkmen Navy.
Inventory
In 1990, the Soviet Navy had:[citation needed]
- 72 cruise missile submarines:
- 9 auxiliary submarines
- 30 cruisers:
- 45 destroyers:
- 11 Sovremennyy-class destroyers
- 11 Udaloy-class destroyers
- 18 Kashin-class destroyers
- 3 Kanin-class destroyers
- 2 Kildin-class destroyers
- 11
- 113 frigates:
- 124 corvettes:
- 3 Ivan Rogov-class landing ships
- 19 Ropucha-class landing ships
- 14 Alligator-class landing ships
- 6 Polnocny-class landing ships
- ≈425 patrol boats
The regular Soviet naval aviation units were created in 1918. They participated in the
In the second half of the 1920s, the Naval Aviation order of battle began to grow. It received new reconnaissance hydroplanes, bombers, and fighters. In the mid-1930s, the Soviets created the Naval Air Force in the Baltic Fleet, the Black Sea Fleet and the Soviet Pacific Fleet. The importance of naval aviation had grown significantly by 1938–1940, to become one of the main components of the Soviet Navy. By this time, the Soviets had created formations and units of the torpedo and bomb aviation.
Soviet Marines
During
- 6 naval infantry regiments (650 marines in two battalions)
- 40 naval infantry brigades of 5–10 battalions, formed from surplus ships' crews. Five brigades were awarded Gvardy (Guards) status.
- Numerous smaller units
- 1 division – the 55th Naval Infantry Division, formerly a Red Army formation
The military situation demanded the deployment of large numbers of marines on land fronts, so the
They conducted four major operations: two during the
The Soviet experience in
The Naval Infantry was disbanded in 1947, with some units being transferred to the Coastal Defence Forces.
In 1961, the Naval Infantry was re-formed and became one of the active combat services of the Navy. Each Fleet was assigned a Marine unit of regiment (and later brigade) size. The Naval Infantry received amphibious versions of standard Armoured fighting vehicle, including tanks used by the Soviet Army.
By 1989, the Naval Infantry numbered 18,000 marines, organized into a Marine Division and 4 independent Marine brigades;
- 55th Naval Infantry Division, at Vladivostok (Pacific Fleet)
- 61st Kirkenes Naval Infantry Brigade at Pechenga (Northern Fleet)
- 175th Naval Infantry Brigade, at Tumanny (Northern Fleet)
- 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade at Baltiysk (Baltic Fleet)
- 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, at Sevastopol (Black Sea Fleet)
By the end of the
At 75 units, the Soviet Union had the world's largest inventory of combat
On 18 November 1990, on the eve of the Paris Summit where the
Much of the equipment, which was commonly understood to be treaty limited (TLE) was declared to be part of the naval infantry. The Soviet argument was that the CFE excluded all naval forces, including its permanently land-based components. The Soviet Government eventually became convinced that its position could not be maintained.
A proclamation of the Soviet government on 14 July 1991, which was later adopted by its successor states, provided that all "treaty-limited equipment" (tanks, artillery, and armored vehicles) assigned to naval infantry or coastal defense forces, would count against the total treaty entitlement.
Commanders of Naval Forces of the RSFSR ("KoMorSi")
- Vasili Mikhailovich Altfater[22](15 October 1918 – 22 April 1919),
- Yevgeny Andreyevich Berens(24 April 1919 – 5 February 1920),
- Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Nemits (5 February 1920 – 22 November 1921).
Commander-in-Chief's Assistant for Naval Affairs (from 27 August 1921
Commanders-in-Chief of the Naval Forces of the USSR ("NaMorSi") (from 1 January 1924)
- Eduard Samoilovich Pantserzhansky (22 November 1921 – 9 December 1924),
- Vyacheslav Ivanovich Zof(9 December 1924 – 23 August 1926),
- Romuald Adamovich Muklevich (23 August 1926 – 11 June 1931),
- Fleet Flag-officer 1st Rank[23] Vladimir Mitrofanovich Orlov (11 June 1931 – 15 August 1937),
- Fleet Flag-officer 2nd Rank[23] Lev Mikhailovich Galler (10 July – 15 August 1937) Acting,
- Fleet Flag-officer 1st Rank Mikhail Vladimirovich Viktorov (15 August 1937 – 30 December 1937).
People's Commissars for the USSR Navy ("NarKom VMF USSR") (from 1938)
- Army Commissar 1st Rank Pyotr Alexandrovich Smirnov(30 December 1937 – 5 November 1938),
- Army Commander 1st Rank Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky(5 November 1938 – 20 March 1939),
- AdmiralNikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov(from 27 April 1939).
Commanders-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy ("GlavKom VMF") (from 1943)
- Fleet Admiral Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov(to January 1947),
- Admiral Ivan Stepanovich Yumashev (17 January 1947 – 20 July 1951),
- Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov (20 July 1951 – 5 January 1956), second term,
- Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov (5 January 1956 – 8 December 1985), considered the officer most responsible for reforming the Soviet Navy,
- Fleet Admiral Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin (8 December 1985 – December 1991; CIS Navy through August 1992).
Chief of the Naval General Staff
- Behrens, Evgeny Andreevich (1 November 1917 – 22 May 1919)
- Vecheslov, Vladimir Stepanovich (wreed, 22 May – 11 September 1919)
- Melentyev, Alexander Nikolaevich (11 September 1919 – 27 August 1921)
Chief of Staff of the Commander of the Republic Naval Forces
- Radzievsky, Boris Stepanovich (22 July 1919 – 3 July 1920)
Chief of Staff of All Republic Maritime Forces
- Radzievsky, Boris Stepanovich (3 July 1920 – 11 January 1921)
- Dombrovsky, Alexey Vladimirovich (11 January 1921 – 27 August 1921)
Chief of the Naval Staff of the Republic
- Dombrovsky, Alexey Vladimirovich (27 August 1921 – 23 December 1923)
Chief of Staff of the RKKF
- Dombrovsky, Alexey Vladimirovich (23 December 1923 – 17 December 1924)
- Stepanov, Georgy Andreevich (wreed, 17 December 1924 – 2 January 1925)
- Blinov, Sergei Pavlovich (17 December 1924 – 31 August 1926)
Head of the Training Directorate of the UVMS of the Red Army
- Toshakov, Arkady Alexandrovich (31 August 1926 – 23 August 1927, vred until 29 October 1926)
- Petrov, Mikhail Alexandrovich (23 August 1927 – 12 October 1930)
- Ludry, Ivan Martynovich (28 November 1930 – 9 March 1932)
- Panzerzhansky, Eduard Samuilovich (13 April – 4 October 1932)
Head of the 1st Directorate of the UVMS of the Red Army
- Gorsky, Mikhail Emelyanovich (4 October 1932 – 20 January 1935)
Head of the 2nd Directorate of the UVMS of the Red Army
- Panzerzhansky, Eduard Samuilovich (4 October 1932 – 20 January 1935)
Head of the 1st Department of the Red Army Naval Forces Directorate
- Panzerzhansky, Eduard Samuilovich (20 January 1935 – 5 March 1937), 1st rank flagship
Chief of Staff of the Red Army Naval Forces
- Stasevich, Pavel Grigorievich (20 March – 19 August 1937), Captain 1st Rank
- Kalachev, Vladimir Petrovich (19 August 1937 – 3 February 1938), Captain 1st Rank
Chief of the Main Naval Staff of the Navy
- Haller, Lev Mikhailovich (10 January 1938 – 23 October 1940), flagship of the 2nd rank fleet
- Isakov, Ivan Stepanovich (23 October 1940 – 21 April 1945), Admiral, from 1944 Admiral of the Fleet
- Alafuzov, Vladimir Antonovich (Wreed, July 1942 - March 1943), Rear Admiral
- Stepanov, Georgy Andreevich (Wreed, March 1943 - July 1944), Vice Admiral
- Alafuzov, Vladimir Antonovich (Wreed, July 1944 - April 1945), Vice Admiral, from 1944 Admiral
- Kucherov, Stepan Grigorievich (21 April 1945 – 18 February 1946), Admiral
Chief of the Main Staff of the Navy
- Isakov, Ivan Stepanovich (18 February 1946 – 19 February 1947), Admiral of the Fleet
- Golovko, Arseny Grigorievich (19 February 1947 – 10 February 1950), Admiral
Chief of the Naval General Staff
- Golovko, Arseny Grigorievich (10 February 1950 – 6 August 1952), Admiral
- Eliseev, Ivan Dmitrievich (interim, 6 August 1952 – 10 March 1953), Vice Admiral
Chief of the General Staff of the Navy
- Eliseev, Ivan Dmitrievich (interim, 15 March – 11 May 1953), Vice Admiral
- Fokin, Vitaly Alekseevich (11 May 1953 – 16 March 1955), Vice Admiral, from 1953 Admiral
Chief of the Main Staff of the Navy
- Fokin, Vitaly Alekseevich (16 March 1955 – 19 February 1958), Admiral
- Zozulya, Fyodor Vladimirovich (19 February 1958 – 25 May 1964), admiral, died on 21 April 1964.
- Sergeev, Nikolai Dmitrievich (13 June 1964 – 1 July 1977), Vice Admiral, Admiral from 1965, Admiral of the Fleet from 1970
- Egorov, Georgy Mikhailovich (1 July 1977 – 18 November 1981), Admiral of the Fleet
- Chernavin, Vladimir Nikolaevich (16 December 1981 – 29 November 1985), Admiral of the Fleet
- Makarov, Konstantin Valentinovich (30 December 1985 – 12 September 1992), Admiral, since 1989 Admiral of the Fleet
See also
- Naval history of World War II
- 1966 Soviet submarine global circumnavigation
- List of ships of the Soviet Navy
- List of Soviet navy flags
- List of Russian admirals
Notes
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- ^ Fleet Flag-officer 2nd Rank from 17 January 1938, Admiral (June 1940), Admiral of the Fleet (February 1944), Rear Admiral (1948), Admiral of the Fleet (1953), Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union (March 1955), Vice-Admiral (February 1956), Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union (1988, posthumous).
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