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The Russian Northern Fleet (Russian: Северный флот, Severny Flot) is an operational-strategic part of the Russian Navy. It is the youngest of the Russian fleet, established in 1933.
The fleet's headquarters are in the closed town Severomorsk, where the main base and administrative centre for several bases located throughout the Kola Gulf are located.
The Northern Fleet is the most powerful of Russia’s four fleets. About two thirds of all the Russian Navy's nuclear force is based there. The fleet consists of nuclear-powered missile and torpedo submarines, missile warships, aircraft carriers and anti-submarine ships. Russia’s only operating aircraft carrier, “Admiral Kuznetsov”, belongs to the Northern Fleet. The flagship of the Northern Fleet is the nuclear-powered large guided missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky.
In 2008, the Russian Navy resumed its presence on the world’s oceans after several years of low activity. Northern Fleet vessels operated in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean Sea.
A new chance for ”Admiral Nakhimov”?
Speaker in the Russian Federation Council Sergey Mironov says he will do what he can to resume the reconstruction of the heavy battle cruiser “Admiral Nakhimov” currently moored at the Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk.
During a visit to Arkhangelsk last week, Mr. Mironov highlighted that the federal government should step up financing of the “Admiral Nakhimov”. The vessel has been docked at Sevmash for 12 years and federal authorities do not allocate sufficient annual funding for completion. Over the last years, Moscow has allocated an annual 250 million RUB to the project.
It is expected that about three billion RUB will be needed for the complete modernization of the vessel.
The “Admiral Nakhimov” was delivered to the Russian Navy by the Baltiiskaya Yard in Sankt Petersburg in 1985.
It is expected that about three billion RUB will be needed for the complete modernization of the vessel.
The “Admiral Nakhimov” was delivered to the Russian Navy by the Baltiiskaya Yard in Sankt Petersburg in 1985.
