Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy

The Coastal Troops (Russian: Береговые войска, romanized: Beregovyye voyska) are a service arm of the Russian Navy, designed to guard Russian fleets' forces, personnel, 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.[2]

Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy
Береговые войска ВМФ Российской Федерации
Beregovye voiska
Emblem of the Russian Navy
Founded27 March 1930 (1930-03-27)
Country Russia
BranchRussian Navy
TypeMotorized infantry
Naval infantry
Naval Spetsnaz
RoleAmphibious reconnaissance
Amphibious warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare
Armoured warfare
CBRN defenceCoastal defence and fortification
Cold-weather warfare
Combined arms
Counter-battery fire
Electronic warfare
Forward observer
Maneuver warfare
Military intelligence
Raiding
Reconnaissance
Special operations
Urban warfare
Size35,000 personnel[1]
Part ofRussian Navy
Commanders
Current
commander		Lieutenant General Alexandr Kolpachenko

Subordinate arms and equipment

The Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy include three Arms:[2]

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.[2]

Brigades and battalions are the main organizational elements of the Coastal Troops.[2]

The Coastal Troops are mainly equipped with combined-arms armaments and equipment. They are armed with coastal missile systems (CMSs) of anti-ship guided missiles, stationary and mobile artillery mounts, designed to destroy sea and ground targets, special (naval) reconnaissance means, etc.[2]

List of units

Pacific Fleet

Chief of the Coastal Forces - Major General Pushkin, Sergey Vitalyevich

Black Sea Fleet
Troops of the 69th Naval Engineer Regiment of the Baltic Fleet during a training exercise in Kaliningrad, January 12, 2018
Air assault training of the 40th Naval Infantry Brigade with Antonov An-12 type aircraft, March 27, 2014
Coastal Missile troops during the 2017 Zapad exercise
Ship supporting the operations of the 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade in the Baltic Sea
Reindeer sledding of the 80th Arctic Motor Rifle Brigade of the Northern Fleet, January 23, 2017

Chief of the Coastal Forces - Major General Denis Lyamin

Baltic Fleet
  • Head of the coastal troops - Lieutenant-General Andrei Guschin

The creation of the 11th Army Corps allows for a quick increase in the grouping of troops in Kaliningrad.

Northern Fleet

Chief of the Coastal Forces Lieutenant general Dmitry Kraev

Caspian Flotilla

References

 This article incorporates text by Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

  1. The Military Balance 2017. — P. 216.
  2. "Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy". mil.ru. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  3. "Russian coastal troops in Crimea armed with Tornado-G MLRS | October 2019".
  4. В Каспийске завершено формирование 177-го полка морской пехоты; В новом полку морской пехоты Каспийской флотилии прошло первое занятие по предметам боевой подготовки / mil.ru
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