Baltic Fleet

External videos
External videos
on RT Documentary Official YouTube Channel(in English)
	The Baltic Fleet (E01): Russian stealth corvette and 'black hole' submarine get ready for a face-off on YouTube
	The Baltic Fleet (E02): Loading torpedoes on the 'Magnitogorsk' submarine on YouTube
	The Baltic Fleet (E03): The challenging task of repainting the whole warship on YouTube
	The Baltic Fleet (E04): 'Magnitogorsk' submarine begins its dive on YouTube

Baltic Fleet
Baltic Fleet
Russian: Балтийский флот; Baltiyskiy flot
	Baltic Fleet great emblem
Active	18 May 1703 – present
Branch	Russian Navy
Role	Naval warfare; Amphibious warfare; Combat patrols in the Baltic; Naval presence/diplomacy missions in the Atlantic and elsewhere
Size	c. 75+ total vessels 2 diesel/electric submarines (SSKs) permanently assigned + others temporarily tasked from other fleets; c. 30 major and minor surface combatants (destroyer?, frigates, corvettes) + others temporarily tasked from other fleets; 4 major amphibious ships (of which 3 involved in the Russo-Ukraine War & operating in the Black Sea; at least one heavily damaged; 2 large air cushion landing craft - LCAC); c. 25 patrol vessels & mine warfare vessels; Support ships/auxiliaries; ;
Part of	Russian Armed Forces; Leningrad Military District(2024-)
Garrison/HQ	Kaliningrad (HQ); Baltiysk; Kronstadt
Anniversaries	18 May
Engagements	Great Northern War Battle of Stäket; Battle of Gangut; Battle of Grengam; ; Seven Years' War Pomeranian War; ; Russo-Turkish wars Battle of Chesma; Battle of the Dardanelles; Battle of Athos; ; Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) Battle of Hogland; Battle of Reval; Battle of Vyborg Bay; Battle of Svensksund; ; Crimean War; Russo-Japanese War Battle of the Yellow Sea; Battle of Tsushima; ; World War I Battle of Åland Islands; Battle of the Gulf of Riga; ; Russian Civil War; World War II Winter War; Siege of Leningrad; ; Cold War; Russo-Ukrainian War Raid on Tendra Spit; ;
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner (2)
Commanders
Current; commander	Vice Admiral Sergei Lipilin
Notable; commanders	Alexei Orlov; Adm. Korneli Cruys; Adm. Dmitry Senyavin; Adm. Vasily Chichagov; Adm. Samuel Greig; Vice Adm. Adrian Nepenin; Rear Adm. Aleksandr Razvozov; Cpt. Alexey Schastny; Adm. Arseniy Golovko; Vice Adm. Alexander Vekman; Adm. Lev Galler; Fleet Adm. Ivan Isakov; Adm. Vladimir Yegorov; Adm. Ivan Kapitanets; Adm. Konstantin Makarov; Adm. Viktor Chirkov; Adm. Matija Zmajević

The Baltic Fleet (Russian: Балтийский флот, romanized: Baltiyskiy flot) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea.

Established 18 May 1703, under Tsar Peter the Great as part of the Imperial Russian Navy, the Baltic Fleet is the oldest Russian fleet. In 1918, the fleet was inherited by the Russian SFSR which then founded the Soviet Union in 1922, where it was eventually known as the Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet as part of the Soviet Navy, as during this period it gained the two awards of the Order of the Red Banner. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Baltic Fleet was inherited by the Russian Federation and reverted to its original name as part of the Russian Navy.

The Baltic Fleet is headquartered in Kaliningrad and its main base is in Baltiysk (Pillau), both in Kaliningrad Oblast, while another base is in Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg, in the Gulf of Finland.