This is Soviet replenishment tanker Berezina, making a northbound passage through Bosphorus. This photo was taken in August 1991.
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Russians Doubled Their Submarine Force In The Black Sea
Last weekend on 22 March 2014, a second submarine joined the Russian Black Sea Fleet. This Foxtrot (Project 641) class submarine, launched in 1970 is not among the new constructions to strengthen the Black Sea Fleet. It is more or less adopted. According to RIA Novosti the half of the crew of the Ukrainian submarine Zaporizya... Continue Reading →
Russia Sees The US Navy’s Bet And Rises One
The show down between Russia and USA on the Black Sea is continuing and it seems that it will not end before the Olympics. While the US Navy warships LCC-20 USS Mount Whitney and FFG-50 USS Taylor are doing circles or "doughnuts" off the coast of Sochi, the Russians have called their Kashnin class destroyer... Continue Reading →
Finaly: US Navy Warships On Black Sea
After week of discussions and very cold war like tug of words between Russia and USA, two US Navy warships have passed through the Turkish Straits. The first ship, LCC-20 USS Mount Whitney, the flag-ship of the US 6. Fleet made her passage on 4 February 2014. The second ship turned out to be not... Continue Reading →
An Update On Submarines Of The Black Sea Navies
The submarines are getting fashionable again by the navies of the Black Sea nations.Well not every country is happy to have a silent service in its navy. Bulgaria its sole Romeo (Project 633) class BNS Slava in 2011 and sold her bulk in December 2013, effectively ending its submarine service after 94 years.But Bulgaria is the exception. Ukraine has... Continue Reading →
A New Submarine Will Join Russian Black Sea Fleet Next Year
According to Ukinform, the Russian Black Sea Fleet will receive a new submarine in July 2014. The new unit, aptly named as Novorossiysk is a Kilo/Varshavyanka (Project 636) class submarine. She will join a Kilo/Varshavyanka (Project 877V) class submarine Alrosa and Tango (Project 641B) class submarine St. George already serving in the Black Sea. The submarine Alrosa... Continue Reading →
Russian Warship Movements Through Turkish Straits (Part 28)
Yesterday, two large landing ships, 055 Admiral Nevelskoi and 077 Peresvet made yet another southbound passage through the Bosphorus. So this is the tally of Russian warship movements in 2013: Date Number Name Direction 01/01/13 142 Novocharkassk Southbound 09/01/13 152 Nikolay Filchenkov Northbound 09/01/13 151 Azov Northbound 12/01/13 142 Novocharkassk Northbound 14/01/13 102 Kaliningrad Northbound... Continue Reading →
Russian Warship Movements Through Turkish Straits (Part 27)
On 17 September 2013 in the morning, another Russian Ropucha class landing ship, 110 Alexander Shabalin passed through Bosphorus and headed to Novorossiysk. The Russian naval blog navy-korabel.livejournal has excellent photos of the landings ships at their home port. So this is the tally of Russian warship movements in 2013: Date Number Name Direction 01/01/13... Continue Reading →
Russian Warship Movements Through Turkish Straits (Part 26)
Today, in the wee small hours of the morning, two large landing ships of the Russian Navy made a almost unnoticed passage back to the Black Sea. So this is the tally of Russian warship movements in 2013: Date Number Name Direction 01/01/13 142 Novocharkassk Southbound 09/01/13 152 Nikolay Filchenkov Northbound 09/01/13 151 Azov Northbound... Continue Reading →
Photos From Recent Warship Passages In Bosphorus
Click here for more photos from the passage of Smetlivy and click here for a short video. It was not only Russian ships that passed through the Bosphorus this weekend. The SNMCMG-2 has left the Black Sea after spending 19 days in various ports in the region.
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