The Leningrad Naval Base is part of the
Baltic Fleet of the
Russian Navy.
History
The
Naval base
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was created on the basis of Order No. 117 as of March 15, 1919 of the Baltic Sea Fleet. The Naval Forces of Petrograd were transformed by the order into the Petrograd Naval Base.
The Petrograd, then the Leningrad naval base has since that time been sometimes abolished, reformed and again created.
In the summer of 1919, the crews of torpedo boats and , and also the submarine under command scored the first successes ('kills') for the base, sinking the submarine and the destroyer
HMS ''Vittoria'' of the British
Royal Navy
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.
During the
Great Patriotic War
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sou ...
from the headquarters of the naval educational institutions and fleet units a sea defence of Leningrad and Lake area headquarters was created. About 100,000 military seamen fought on the Leningrad front. In 1941-1944 naval vessels of this base participated in carrying out of landing operations in areas
Strelna
Strelna ( rus, Стре́льна, p=ˈstrʲelʲnə) is a municipal settlement in Petrodvortsovy District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, Russia, about halfway between Saint Petersburg proper and Petergof, and overlooking the shore o ...
,
Peterhof, on
Lake Ladoga, in the
Vyborg
Vyborg (; rus, Вы́борг, links=1, r=Výborg, p=ˈvɨbərk; fi, Viipuri ; sv, Viborg ; german: Wiborg ) is a town in, and the administrative center of, Vyborgsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Karelian Isthmus n ...
and in the
Narva gulfs. During the
blockade of Leningrad the fleet provided communication of the besieged city with the country through Lake Ladoga. 1.7 million tons of cargo were transported and 1 million people were evacuated on the water line of the
Road of Life
The Road of Life () was the set of ice road transport routes across Lake Ladoga to Leningrad during the Second World War. They were the only Soviet winter surface routes into the city while it was besieged by the German Army Group North under ...
alone.
From October 1988 the base consisted of the:
*25th Submarine Brigade (Kronshtadt, Saint Petersburg)
*105th Naval Region Protection Brigade (Kronshtadt, Saint Petersburg)
*166th Brigade of Constructed and Overhauled Ships (Kronshtadt, Saint Petersburg)
Since 1994 the base has been part of the
Baltic Fleet.
Ships in 2008
Commanders
During Soviet times, the post was known as the Commandant of the Kronstadt naval fortress.
* Admiral (December 1989 - September 1992)
* Vice Admiral (February 1993 - August 1995)
* Vice Admiral Alexander Kornilov (December 1995 - October 2002)
* Vice Admiral Vladimir Kudryavtsev (October 2002 - March 2006)
* Rear Admiral Alexey Tuzov (March - November 2006)
* Rear Admiral
Anatoly Lipinsky (November 2006 - July 2009)
* Rear Admiral
Aleksandr Fedotenkov (September 2009 - June 2011)
* Captain Oleg Zhuravlyov (December 2011 - May 2015)
* Rear Admiral (May 2015 - September 2017)
* Rear Admiral Vyacheslav Rodionov (since September 2017)
References
External links
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{{Saint Peterburg Navy structures
Russian and Soviet Navy bases
Russian and Soviet Navy submarine bases