Coast Guard (Russia)

Coast Guard of the Border Service of FSB
Береговая охрана ПС ФСБ России

Founded 2005 (2005)
Country  Russia
Type Coast Guard
Role Coastal defense, maritime law enforcement, search and rescue
Size 300 vessels
Part of Federal Security Service
Border Service
Colors blue-green
Equipment Vessels and aircraft
Engagements War against piracy
Russo-Georgian War
Annexation of Crimea
Commanders
Commander of the Coast Guard Admiral Yuri Alekseyev
Notable
commanders		 Inokentiy Nalyotov
Vyacheslav Serzhanin
Insignia
Racing stripe

The Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB (Russian: Береговая охрана Пограничной службы ФСБ России, Beregovaya okhrana Pogranichnoy sluzhby FSB Rossii), previously known as the Maritime Units of the KGB Border Troops (Russian: Морские части Пограничных Войск КГБ СССР), is the coast guard of the Russian Federation. The Coast Guard is part of the Border Guard Service of Russia under the Federal Security Service of Russia (Береговая охрана Пограничной службы ФСБ России).[1]

History

The roots of the Coast Guard lie in the Russian Maritime Forces of the KGB's Border Services.

Training and study

The FSB Coast Guard Institute (Институт береговой охраны ФСБ России), located in Anapa, was established in 2007.

Missions

The Russian Coast Guard has various missions, such as the protection of Russian maritime borders, ensuring safe navigation in territorial waters, assisting vessels and aircraft, weather reconnaissance, fisheries protection, and fighting against smuggling and piracy. To perform these missions the Russian Coast Guard uses a variety of vessels and aircraft.[2]

Equipment

The Russian Coast Guard is equipped with a variety of vessels, aircraft, and small arms/mounted weapons.

Vessels

Vessels of the Russian Coast Guard are:

The number of vessels listed above are based on a list of currently active Russian Coast Guard vessels.[7]

Aircraft

Weapons

The Russian Coast Guard uses a variety of weapons, this includes but is not limited to the AK series of rifles, pistols, grenade based weapons such as the DP-64 hand anti-diver grenade launcher and the 30 mm AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher, and a variety of machine guns from 7.62 mm machine guns to 14.5 mm machine guns. Large weapons aboard vessels can be anything from naval guns, torpedoes, and missiles.[10][11][12][13]

Commanders

  • Admiral Innokentiy Nalyotov (1996-2002)
  • Vice-Admiral Vyacheslav Serzhanin (2004–2006)
  • General-Colonel Viktor Trufanov (2006-2011)
  • Yuri Alexeyev (Since 2011)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hazegrey.org, World Navies Today: Maritime Units of the Russian Border Guard Forces
  2. ↑ "Sea Guard of the Border Guard Service". GlobalSecurity. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  3. ↑ bmpd (1 January 2015). "Закупки ФСБ: вертолеты Ми-35М, очередные ПСКР "Охотник" и "Океан"". Archived from the original on 22 July 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Погранслужба ФСБ получила сторожевой корабль для охраны границ в Арктике". 22 January 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "ЦАМТО / Новости / Пограничный корабль «Полярная звезда» прибыл к месту постоянного базирования в порт Мурманска". www.armstrade.org. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  6. ↑ http://www.armstrade.org/includes/periodics/news/2018/1012/143049118/detail.shtml
  7. ↑ "Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB - List of Current Ships 2017". Russianships.info. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  8. ↑ "Ship-based Ka-226T Delivered For Russian Coast Guard". aviationweek. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  9. ↑ "RUSSIAN Coast Guard Camcopter S 100". Youtube. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "Project 12150 "Mangoost"". oaoosk. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  11. ↑ "Combat training of russian coast guards and special FSB". alamy. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  12. ↑ "Nerey class". navalanalyses. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  13. ↑ "Есть такой корабль... "Анадырь"". Youtube. AK used at time 3:46.
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