Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet

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Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet (Russian: Ледовый поход Балтийского флота) was an operation which transferred the ships of the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy from their bases at Revel (Tallinn) and Helsingfors (Helsinki) to Kronstadt in 1918, caused by the possible threat to those bases from the final German offensives against Russia during World War I.

When on February 25, 1918 the German troops entered Revel, a significant part of the ships escorted by the ice-breakers had already been moved. On March 5, 1918 all ships except one submarine, crushed by ice, reached Helsingfors.

On March 12, 1918 another group of ships with the ice-breakers Yermak and Volynets had done 330 km through the heavy ice and after five days reached Kronstadt. In all 6 battleships, 5 cruisers, 59 destroyers and torpedo-boats, 12 submarines and several other ships were moved to Kronstadt.