Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy


The Coastal Troops are a service arm of the Russian Navy, designed to guard Russian fleets' forces, troops, population and seashore objects against exposure to enemy surface ships; to defend naval bases and other important facilities of the Fleets from the land, including against amphibious and air assaults; to be landed and act in the course of amphibious and air assaults; to support the Russian Ground Forces in the course of defence against airborne and amphibious assaults; to destroy surface ships, boats and amphibious transport means within the fire envelope.

Structure

The Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy include three Arms:
Each Arm achieves certain objectives on its own and in conjunction with the other Arms of the Coastal Troops and Forces of the Navy, as well as formations and units of the other Services and Arms of the Armed Forces.
Brigades and battalions are the main organizational elements of the Coastal Troops.
The Coastal Troops are mainly equipped with combined-arms armaments and equipment. They are armed with coastal missile systems of anti-ship guided missiles, stationary and mobile artillery mounts, designed to destroy sea and ground targets, special reconnaissance means, etc.

Unit Deployments

- Chief of the Coastal Forces - Major General Pushkin, Sergey Vitalyevich
Black Sea Fleet - Chief of the Coastal Forces - Major General Andrei Kolotovkin
Baltic Fleet - Head of the coastal troops - Lieutenant-General Andrei Guschin
Northern Fleet - Chief of the Coastal Forces - from January 2015, Major-General Dmitry Kraev
Caspian Flotilla
Other units