Russian Navy News

03.18.2009 Russia begins mooring trials of Yury Dolgoruky strategic sub
Russia has started mooring trials of the first Borey class nuclear-powered strategic submarine, which will be equipped with Bulava sea-based ballistic missiles, the defense minister said on Tuesday.

03.10.2009 Talks on aircraft carrier intensify
Over the month, leader of the Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, has been twice in India to negotiate new contract terms for sales of the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov.

03.10.2009 Russian munitions in smuggling case listed as metal - source
Russian military officials tried to smuggle 30 anti-submarine missiles and 200 aviation bombs via Tajikistan to China under the guise of nonferrous metal deliveries, a law enforcement source said on Friday.

03.06.2009 Russia’s Voronezh nuclear ballistic missile submarine at Zvezdochka shipyards for planned modernization
The Russian Project 949A (Antey) nuclear ballistic missile submarine Voronezh of the Northern Fleet has reached the water area of the Zvezdochka shipyards, where it will undergo modernization, the press service of Zvezdochka has announced.

03.05.2009 Black Sea Fleet preparing to celebrate 40th anniversary naval surface force
The former commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Igor Kasatonov, is in Sebastopol on a working visit.

03.05.2009 Russia's Pacific Fleet to cut 5,000 personnel
The Russian Pacific Fleet will reduce its size by shedding 5,000 personnel in the coming few years, an official with the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet told Ria Novosti.

03.04.2009 Black Sea Fleet warships out at sea to practice course exercises
The flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, the guard missile cruiser Moskva, and the missile hovercraft Bora under the flags of their division commanders went out to sea on March 3 to practice K-2 coursework exercises.

03.04.2009 Pacific Fleet receives brand-new apartment building in Kamchatka
The second multi-story apartment building for members of the Russian Pacific Fleet has been completed this year in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

03.03.2009 Neustrashimy commander wins Captain of the Year award
The commander of the Russian escort destroyer Neustrashimy, Captain 2nd Class Alexey Apanovich, has been awarded the 2008 Captain of the Year award by the unanimous decision of the Administration Commission of the Sea Port of Kaliningrad.

03.03.2009 Caspian marine brigade dissolved
The 77th Marine Brigade of the Russian Caspian Flotilla has been dissolved, Itar-Tass reported citing information from the headquarters of the Caspian Flotilla.

03.02.2009 Admiral Panteleyev to replace Admiral Vinogradov in Gulf of Aden
The large antisubmarine ship of the Russian Pacific Fleet will begin patrolling the Gulf of Aden in April to help fight piracy, a source in the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet told Ria Novosti.

03.02.2009 Parameters of Russia’s new-generation aircraft carrier defined
The Russian Navy’s new-generation aircraft carrier will be powered by a nuclear generator and have a water displacement of 60,000 tonnes, Vice Admiral Anatoly Shlemov, an official with the United Shipbuilding Corporation, told Ria Novosti on Friday.

02.26.2009 Russian Navy official sheds light on Tajikistan missile trafficking scheme
A group of naval officers and their associates planned to smuggle Russian antisubmarine missiles into Tajikistan under the guise of decommissioned weapons, Igor Dygalo, an aide to the commander of the Russian Navy, told Ria Novosti.

02.26.2009 Russia has developed robot for fight against pirates
Specialists of the Petrozavodsk Engineering Center for Fire Robot Technology have designed a modification of a firefighting robot that could be used to repel pirate attacks on ships. The robot has a powerful water cannon capable of wiping out the entire crew of a pirates’ boat, Ria Novosti reported.

02.26.2009 Russian Navy has begun receiving Komar turret installation
The Russian turret installation Komar has successfully completed government tests and has now been installed on Russian Navy ships, Vladimir Baybakov, the general director of Ratep, the company that developed the system, told Interfax in an interview.

02.25.2009 Russian warships to continue their missions in World Ocean
Russian warships continue to carry out missions in strategically important ocean and sea regions, Captain First Class Igor Dygalo, an aide to the commander of the Russian Navy, told Ria Novosti.

02.25.2009 The Russian Navy will take into account the presence of NATO ships in the Arctic - source
The battle training plans of the Russian Navy will take into account the presence of NATO ships in the Arctic, a high-ranking representative of the headquarters of the Russian Navy told Ria Novosti.

02.25.2009 Russian tanker attacked by pirates off the Nigerian coast - source
The tanker Khatanga, which belongs to the Murmansk Shipping Company and was transporting oil, was attacked by pirates 20 miles off the Nigerian coast: the tanker succeeded in escaping the attack, and no one was injured, a source in the company told Ria Novosti on Tuesday.

02.24.2009 Sebastopol officials want Black Sea Fleet to release classified information
The Sebastopol Employment office and Employment Fund are demanding that the command of the Black Sea Fleet release the list of workers susceptible to be laid off, which is classified information.

02.24.2009 New shuttle tanker for Varandey oil terminal
The Russian company Sovkomflot received a new ice class shuttle tanker to be used between the oil terminal Varandey and Murmansk.

02.24.2009 New Bulava launch in March
Test fires of the new Bulava sea-based intercontinental ballistic missile will probably be resumed in March.

02.20.2009 Pacific Fleet preparing to meet Defense of Motherland Day
Feverish preparations are underway in Russia’s Far East region in anticipation of Defense of Motherland Day.

02.20.2009 Northern Fleet preparing to meet Defense of Motherland Day
The Russian Northern Fleet has already approved a program of celebrations to mark Defense of the Motherland Day.

02.20.2009 In effort to restructure, Russian Navy launches re-training of seamen at Northern Fleet
In an effort to restructure its armed forces, Russia has launched into a program to retrain the servicemen scheduled to be discharged at the Northern Fleet.

02.19.2009 Baltic Fleet sailors discuss Neustrashimy’s mission in Gulf of Aden in teleconference
Representatives of the Baltic Fleet took part in a teleconference organized by the Modern Academy for Humanities to discuss the problems of security and the fight against piracy - the participation of the Russian Navy - in international sea navigation.

02.19.2009 Office of Commander of the Navy appears at Admiralty building in St. Pete
An office for the commander of the Russian Navy, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, has been refurbished, outfitted with communication equipment and is now ready at the Admiralty building in St.Petersburg, Ria Novosti reported citing a source in the Russian Navy.

02.18.2009 Russian escort Vessel Yaroslav Mudry to begin sea trials in late February
The escort vessel of the Russian Baltic Fleet Yaroslav Mudry will begin sea trials in the Baltic Sea on February 26.

02.18.2009 Missile cruiser Moskva returns to Sebastopol from Mediterranean
The missile cruiser Moskva of the Russian Black Sea Fleet on Tuesday returned to its base in Sebastopol after completing a mission in the Mediterranean, an official from the Information Service of the Black Sea Fleet told Ria Novosti by telephone.

02.18.2009 Punishment must be made irreversible for pirates – Russian presidential envoy
Anatoly Safonov, the Russian president’s special representative on international cooperation in the fight against terrorism and transnational crime, has announced that the question of making punishment for pirates irreversible must be addressed.

02.18.2009 Russian rescuers put out fire on Panamanian boat
Russian rescuers on Tuesday succeeded in putting out a fire that broke out aboard the Nancy - a cargo ship sailing under the Panamanian flag – in the Russian port of Nakhodka in the Primorie region, an on-duty official of the Vladivostok Maritime Rescue Coordination Center told Ria Novosti on Wednesday.