Coast Guard (Russia)

The Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB (Russian: Береговая охрана Пограничной службы ФСБ России, Beregovaya okhrana Pogranichnoy sluzhby FSB Rossii), previously known as the Maritime Units of the KGB Border Troops (Russian: Морские части Пограничных Войск КГБ СССР), is the coast guard of Russia. The Coast Guard is part of the Border Guard Service of Russia under the Federal Security Service of Russia (Береговая охрана Пограничной службы ФСБ России).[1]

Coast Guard of the Border Service of FSB Береговая охрана ПС ФСБ России
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Agency overview
Formed	2005
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Russia
Specialist jurisdiction	Coastal patrol, marine border protection, marine search and rescue.
Operational structure
Agency executive	Admiral Yuri Alekseyev, Commander of the Coast Guard
Parent agency	Federal Security Service Border Service
Facilities
Boats	300 vessels
Notables
People	Inokentiy Nalyotov Vyacheslav Serzhanin
Significant operation	War on Piracy Russo-Georgian War Invasion of Crimea Kerch Strait incident

History

The roots of the Coast Guard lie in the Russian Maritime Forces of the KGB's Border Services.

Training and study

The FSB Coast Guard Institute (Институт береговой охраны ФСБ России), located in Anapa, was established in 2007. Cadets study for 4 years.

Missions

The Russian Coast Guard has various missions, such as the protection of Russia's maritime borders, ensuring safe navigation in territorial waters, assisting vessels and aircraft, weather reconnaissance, fisheries protection, and fighting against smuggling and piracy. To perform these missions the Russian Coast Guard uses a variety of vessels and aircraft.[2]

Equipment

The Russian Coast Guard is equipped with a variety of vessels, aircraft, and small arms/mounted weapons.

Vessels

Vessels of the Russian Coast Guard are:

• Frigates (FFG): 2 - Nerei class/Krivak III class (both Pacific - Dzerzhinskyy and Orel)[3]
• Corvettes: 2 - Pauk-class corvettes (1 Black Sea - Kuban; 1 Pacific - Sokol)[4]
• Offshore patrol vessels: 25 - various types, 13 - Rubin class patrol boat (6 Black Sea; 3 Pacific; 2 Northern; 1 each in Baltic and Caspian as of 2020),[5] 2 - Okean class patrol vessels (both Northern as of 2020);[6][7][8] 4 - Project 850285 (all Pacific)[9]
• Patrol Icebreakers: 4 - Ivan Susanin-class patrol ship (1 Northern, 3 Pacific as of 2020), 5 - Purga class icebreaker (all Pacific); Future: Project 23550 patrol ship - planned for service entry with the Russian Navy and Coast Guard toward the mid-2020s
• Patrol boats (PCF): At least 120 patrol boats, 21 - Sobol class patrol boat, 27 - Svetlyak-class patrol boat, 56 - Mangust class patrol boat, 4 - Lamantin class patrol boat,[10] 3 - Rondo class patrol boat,[11] 3 - Mirage class patrol vessel, 1 - Zhuk-class patrol boat, 2 - Sokzhoy class patrol boat, 3 - Mustang 2-class patrol boat
• River craft: 18 - Vosh class river patrol craft, 8 - Piyavka class river patrol craft, 4 - Ogonek class river patrol craft, 1 - Yaz-class river patrol craft
• Coastal logistics ships: 7 - Neon Antonov class coastal logistics ship
• Seagoing tug: 17 - Sorum class seagoing tug

The number of vessels listed above are based on a list of currently active Russian Coast Guard vessels.

Aircraft

• Antonov An-26
• Ilyushin Il-76
• Mil Mi-8
• Kamov Ka-27
• Ka-226T[12]
• Schiebel Camcopter S-100[13]

Weapons

The Russian Coast Guard uses a variety of weapons, this includes but is not limited to the AK series of rifles, pistols, grenade based weapons such as the DP-64 hand anti-diver grenade launcher and the 30 mm AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher, and a variety of machine guns from 7.62 mm machine guns to 14.5 mm machine guns. Large weapons aboard vessels can be anything from naval guns, torpedoes, and missiles.[14][15][16]

Gallery

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  Russian Border Guard vessel Vorovskiy in Seattle
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Commanders

• Admiral Innokentiy Nalyotov (1996-2002)
• Vice-Admiral Vyacheslav Serzhanin (2004–2006)
• General-Colonel Viktor Trufanov (2006-2011)
• Yuri Alexeyev (Since 2011)

See also

• National Guard Naval Service Corps, the naval service, water police and coast guard branch of the National Guard Forces Command, National Guard of Russia.
• Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise ship case

References

1. Hazegrey.org, World Navies Today: Maritime Units of the Russian Border Guard Forces
2. "Sea Guard of the Border Guard Service". GlobalSecurity. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
3. http://russianships.info/eng/coastguard/
4. http://russianships.info/eng/coastguard/
5. http://russianships.info/eng/borderguard/project_22460.htm
6. "Погранслужба ФСБ получила сторожевой корабль для охраны границ в Арктике". 22 January 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
7. "ЦАМТО / Новости / Пограничный корабль "Полярная звезда" прибыл к месту постоянного базирования в порт Мурманска". www.armstrade.org. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
8. http://www.zdship.ru/press-center/news-events/4028/
9. http://russianships.info/eng/borderguard/project_850285.htm
10. https://kalashnikovgroup.ru/press-center/news/chetvyertyy_morskoy_-lamantin-_peredan_zakazchiku_
11. http://www.armstrade.org/includes/periodics/news/2018/1012/143049118/detail.shtml
12. "Ship-based Ka-226T Delivered For Russian Coast Guard". aviationweek. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
13. "RUSSIAN Coast Guard Camcopter S 100". Youtube. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
14. "Project 12150 "Mangoost"". oaoosk. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
15. "Combat training of russian coast guards and special FSB". alamy. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
16. "Есть такой корабль... "Анадырь"". Youtube. AK used at time 3:46.CS1 maint: location (link)