Martin Antonenko
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A New Fleet...
On June 1, 1933 the young Soviet Union founds a new fleet!
Due to the geographic location of the country, the USSR has so far had three - independent - naval units:
The Baltic Fleet ("Balstiskij Fljot") with the Kronshtadt base...
The Black Sea Fleet ("Tschernomorskij Fljot") with the main base in Sebastopol...
The Far East Fleet ("Tikhookeanskij Fljot ") with the base Wladiwostok (in English:" Rule the East")...
Now a fourth fleet is being added - the Northern Fleet (Северный флот / Severnij Fljot)!
The base of the new association is the city of Polyarnij on the Kola Peninsula ...:
The need to establish this independent armed forces had already been shown in the First World War, when it became necessary to protect the port of Murmansk (the only winter ice-free port in Russia in the northern region) from German naval attacks and to keep it open for British supplies!
The landlord, Jossif Stalin, comes personally to put Polyarnij into service; he is accompanied by the head of the Leningrad party organization, Sergei Mironovich Kirov (whom he will have killed a year and a half later).
One of the very rare pictures of Stalin, who got easily seasick, was taken on a ship that day!
However, no new ships are being built for the new northern fleet, but the Baltic fleet has to help out!
The Soviet Navy initially relocated two destroyers, two patrol boats and two submarines from the Baltic Sea to the north.
I can vividly imagine the "joy" of the crews, who up to now in Kronshtadt have had to swap the amenities of the big city of Leningrad for the inhospitable north!
A little later a second unit is added - also from the previous holdings of the Baltic fleet: a destroyer, a patrol boat, a submarine and two minesweepers ...:
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On June 1, 1933 the young Soviet Union founds a new fleet!
Due to the geographic location of the country, the USSR has so far had three - independent - naval units:
The Baltic Fleet ("Balstiskij Fljot") with the Kronshtadt base...
The Black Sea Fleet ("Tschernomorskij Fljot") with the main base in Sebastopol...
The Far East Fleet ("Tikhookeanskij Fljot ") with the base Wladiwostok (in English:" Rule the East")...
Now a fourth fleet is being added - the Northern Fleet (Северный флот / Severnij Fljot)!
The base of the new association is the city of Polyarnij on the Kola Peninsula ...:
The need to establish this independent armed forces had already been shown in the First World War, when it became necessary to protect the port of Murmansk (the only winter ice-free port in Russia in the northern region) from German naval attacks and to keep it open for British supplies!
The landlord, Jossif Stalin, comes personally to put Polyarnij into service; he is accompanied by the head of the Leningrad party organization, Sergei Mironovich Kirov (whom he will have killed a year and a half later).
One of the very rare pictures of Stalin, who got easily seasick, was taken on a ship that day!
However, no new ships are being built for the new northern fleet, but the Baltic fleet has to help out!
The Soviet Navy initially relocated two destroyers, two patrol boats and two submarines from the Baltic Sea to the north.
I can vividly imagine the "joy" of the crews, who up to now in Kronshtadt have had to swap the amenities of the big city of Leningrad for the inhospitable north!
A little later a second unit is added - also from the previous holdings of the Baltic fleet: a destroyer, a patrol boat, a submarine and two minesweepers ...:
**continued next post**
