Kamchatka Flotilla

Kamchatka Flotilla
Камчатская флотилия
Kamchatskaya flotiliya
Troops and Forces of the North-East headquarters sign, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 2007
Active1945–present
Country
Branch
Garrison/HQPetropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Battle honoursOrder of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner
Commanders
Current
commander		Acting Rear Admiral Sergei Zhuga
Notable
commanders		Grigori Shchedrin

The Kamchatka Military Flotilla (Russian: Камчатская флотилия, romanized: Kamchatskaya flotiliya) is a flotilla of the Russian Navy. On December 14, 1849, in accordance with the Decree of Emperor Nicholas I, the Okhotsk military flotilla was transferred to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Kamchatka. Thus December 14 became marked as the celebratory "Day" of the flotilla/NEGTF.

Formed in 1945, the Kamchatka Flotilla of diverse forces was reorganized during the 1960s;[citation needed] on 15 October 1979 the Kamchatka Flotilla was formed (or reformed).[1] In March 1998 the Northeastern Group of Troops and Forces was created from the Kamchatka Flotilla. It was based on the Kamchatka Peninsula and had responsibility for a coastal zone of the Pacific Ocean. On April 30, 1975, the flotilla was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

The Kamchatka Flotilla's forces in 1988 included the 173rd Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade (Ilicheva Bay, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka); 114th Coastal Defence Brigade; 182nd Submarine Brigade (Krasheninnikova Bay, Kamchatka Oblast); and the 104th independent Hydrographic Ship Battalion at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka.[1]

Until 1 June 2002, the 22nd Motor Rifle Division of the Far East Military District was located on the peninsula. It then became the 40th independent Motorised Rifle Brigade. In September 2007 it became the 40th Independent (twice Red Banner) Krasnodar-Harbin twice Red Banner Naval Infantry Brigade.[2] This situation lasted until March, 2009 when it became the 3rd Naval Infantry Regiment, and later the 40th Naval Infantry Brigade.

Order of battle

It includes:

Ship and Vessel units

  • 114th Coastal Defence Brigade (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky);
  • 117th Coastal Defence Division (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky);
  • 66th Separate Missile Ship Division (Acha Bay);
  • 10th Submarine Division (Vilyuchinsk);
  • 25th Submarine Division (Tarja Bay);
  • 32nd Auxiliary Unit (Zavoiko Peninsula);

Marines

40th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky);

Coastal Defense units

520th Separate Missile Brigade (Sakhalin and The Kuril Islands);

  • Eight surface-to-surface missile divizions (battalions), three on Sakhalin, two on Iturup Island, and three elsewhere

Aviation and Air Defence units (see ru:Елизово (аэропорт))

  • 865th Separate Fighter Regiment (Elizovo Airport, transferred to OKVS (Troops and Forces of the North-East) July 1, 1998);
  • 317th Separate Aviation Regiment (Elizovo, status needs to be confirmed)
  • 175th Helicopter Anti-ship Squadron (Elizovo, status needs to be confirmed);
  • 216th Electronic Warfare Regiment (Ozyorny);
  • 1532nd Air Defence Regiment (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky)

Command

Commanders of the Flotilla

Commander of the Northeastern Group of Troops and Forces

  • 1998-2000 - Vice-Admiral V. F. Dorogin
  • 2000-2001 - Vice-Admiral K. S. Sidenko
  • 2002-2006 - Vice-Admiral V. F. Gavrikov
  • 2006-2009 - Rear Admiral A. V. Vitko
  • 2009-2012 - Rear Admiral K. G. Maklov
  • 2012-2014 - Rear Admiral V. N. Liina
  • 2014-2016 - Rear Admiral S. V. Lipilin
  • Since 2016 - Acting Rear Admiral Sergei Zhuga[3]

Chiefs of Staff of the Flotilla

  • 1948-1949 - captain of the first rank S.А. Canapadze
  • 1951-1957 - Rear Admiral M.G. Tomsk
  • 1957-1963 - Rear Admiral A.B. Teisher's
  • 1963-1968 - Rear Admiral Yu.S. Russin
  • 1972-1976 - Rear Admiral N.G. Customer
  • 1984-1986 - Rear Admiral G.N. Gurinov
  • 1986-1989 - Rear Admiral Yu.I. Shumanin
  • 1989-1994 - Rear Admiral M.G. Kulak
  • 1994-1995 - Rear Admiral V.F. Dorogin
  • 1995-1998 - Rear Admiral M.F. Abramov

First Deputy Flotilla Commander

  • 1976-1979 - Rear Admiral A.I. Skvortsov
  • 1979-1982 - Rear Admiral N.G. Logky
  • 1987-1991 - Rear Admiral N.D. Zakorin
  • 1991-1994 - Rear Admiral V.F. Dorogin
  • 1994-1998 - Rear Admiral M.G. Kulak

Notes

  1. ^ a b Holm n.d.
  2. ^ # 4, 2009 Moscow Defense Brief, p.17, citing http://www.ryadovoy.ru/forum/index.php/topic,86.21.html.
  3. ^ Air Defense Combat on Kamchatka was awarded the Combat Flag

Works cited

  • Holm, Michael (n.d.). "Red Banner Pacific Fleet". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2022-06-23.