Russian Navy

Russian Navy
Военно-морской флот Российской Федерации Voyenno-morskoy flot Rossiyskoy Federatsii
Emblem of the Russian Navy
Active	1696–1917 1992–present[1]
Country	Russia
Branch	Navy
Size	160,000 active duty (2023)[2] Approx. 370 active ships[3]
Part of	Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Headquarters	Admiralty building, Saint Petersburg
Motto(s)	"С нами Бог и Андреевский флаг!" (God and St. Andrew's flag are with us!)
March	Quick – "Экипаж—одна семья" (English: The Crew—One Family) Slow – "Гвардейский встречный марш Военно-морского флота" (English: Slow March of the Guards of the Navy)
Anniversaries	Navy Day (last Sunday in July) Submariner's Day (19 March) Surface Sailor's Day (20 October)
Fleet	1 aircraft carrier 2 battlecruisers 2 cruisers 10 destroyers 11 frigates 80 corvettes 11 landing ship tanks 60 landing craft 18 special-purpose ships 4 patrol ships 56 patrol boats 45 mine countermeasures vessels 8 special-purpose submarines 65 active ballistic missile/cruise missile and attack submarines[4]
Engagements	Russo-Georgian War Anti-piracy operation in Gulf of Aden Russo-Ukrainian War Annexation of Crimea Russian invasion of Ukraine Syrian Civil War
Website	structure.mil.ru/structure/forces/navy.htm
Commanders
Commander-in-Chief	Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev (acting)[5]
First Deputy Commander-in-Chief	Admiral Aleksandr Nosatov
Deputy Commander-in-Chief	Vice-Admiral Vladimir Kasatonov
Insignia
Ensign
Jack
Pennant
Patch
Middle Emblem
Insignia

The Russian navy^[a] is the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces. It has existed in various forms since 1696; its present iteration was formed in January 1992 when it succeeded the Navy of the Commonwealth of Independent States (which had itself succeeded the Soviet Navy following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late December 1991).

The Imperial Russian Navy was established by Peter the Great (Peter I) in October 1696. The symbols of the Russian Navy, the St. Andrew's ensign (seen to the right), and most of its traditions were established personally by Peter I.

The Russian navy possesses the vast majority of the former Soviet naval forces, and currently comprises the Northern Fleet, the Pacific Fleet, the Black Sea Fleet, the Baltic Fleet, the Caspian Flotilla, the permanent task force in the Mediterranean, Naval Aviation, and the Coastal Troops (consisting of the Naval Infantry and the Coastal Missile and Artillery Troops).

The Russian navy suffered severely with the collapse of the Soviet Union due to insufficient maintenance, lack of funding, and subsequent effects on the training of personnel and timely replacement of equipment. Another setback was attributed to Russia's domestic shipbuilding industry, which was in decline due to the absence of modern hardware and technology.

In 2013, a rise in gas and oil prices enabled a sort of renaissance of the Russian Navy due to increased available funds, which may have allowed Russia to begin "developing the capacity to modernize".^[6] In August 2014, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russian naval capabilities would be bolstered with new weapons and equipment within the next six years in response to the enlargement of NATO and the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War.^{[7][needs update]}

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