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Encyclopedia: Russian Navy

The Russian Navy (Russian: Военно-Морской Флот (ВМФ) - Voyenno- Morskoy Flot (VMF) or Military Maritime Fleet) is the naval arm of the Russian armed forces. The international designation of Russian naval vessels is "RFS" - "Russian Federation Ship".

The present Russian Navy was formed from the Soviet Navy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War in 1991.

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How to say "Russian Navy" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	俄罗斯海军
	(Japanese)	ロシア海軍
	(German)	Russische Marine
	(Spanish)	Armada de la Federación Rusa
	(French)	Marine russe

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Baltiysk

Russian Baltic Sea coastline. The town is a major naval base of the Russian Navy and a ferry port on the...Baltiysk (Балтийск, -1946 Pillau (German), Piława (Polish)) is a Russian sea port in the strait between Vistula Bay and Gdansk Bay, called Strait of Baltiysk on the territory of Kaliningrad...

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Fox Islands

Europeans in 1741, when a Danish navigator employed by the Russian navy, Vitus Bering, who was searching for new sources of fur for Russian fur trappers to exploit. Foggy almost all year round, the islands...

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List of sunken nuclear submarines

from the United States, four from the Soviet Navy, and two from the Russian Navy. All sank as a result... impossible and decommissioning too expensive. All of the Soviet/Russian submarines belonged to the... Republics K-8 K-219 K-278 Komsomolets K-27 Russian Federation K-141 Kursk K-159...

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Ivan Aivazovsky

life, his paintings of naval scenes earned him a longstanding commission from the Russian Navy. With... "Storm" by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1854 Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (July 29, 1817 - May 5, 1900) was a Russian painter. Born in the town of Feodosiya, Crimea, he spent his childhood in poverty...

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STOBAR

Russian Navy aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is the most prominent current example of a STOBAR... that it would operate in a STOBAR configuration. The FCBA is to be deployed on the Royal Navy's next...

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Russian submarine K-407

ballistic missile submarine (NATO reporting name "Delta-IV") of the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet... unspecified technical problem. The Russian Navy, despite earlier statements describing the test...

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Karl Robert, count Nesselrode

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John Paul Jones

damage. After the Revolutionary War, Jones was appointed Admiral of the Russian Navy by Catherine the Great, and led the Russian navy to several victories in the war with the Turks. In 1792 Jones was... Lieutenant's commission in the Continental Navy. He soon made a reputation, he was considered a murderer...

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Akula class submarine

the most silent submarine in the Russian Navy. Akulas are armed with four 533mm torpedo tubes which... attack submarine (SSN) first deployed by the Soviet Navy in 1986. The true name of the class is the Bars-class, as Akula (Russian word for “Shark”) is the Soviet designation of ballistic missile...

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Alexander Popov (physicist)

funding of the university he changed to a teaching job at the Russian Navy's Torpedo School in Kronstadt... Alexander Stepanovich Popov (Russian: Александр Степанович Попов) (March 4 1859 - December 31 1905) was a Russian physicist. Born in the village Turinskiye Rudniki (now...

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