Coast Guard (Russia)

Coast Guard of the Border Service of FSB Береговая охрана ПС ФСБ России
Active	2005–present
Country	Russia
Type	Coast Guard
Size	301 vessels
Part of	Federal Security Service Border Service
Colors	blue-green
Equipment	Vessels and aircraft
Engagements	War against piracy Russo-Georgian War Annexation of Crimea
Commanders
Commander of the Coast Guard	Admiral Yuri Alekseyev
Notable commanders	Inokentiy Nalyotov Vyacheslav Serzhanin
Insignia
Racing stripe

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 the Russian Federation. 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]

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.

Missions

The Russian Coast Guard has various missions, such as the protection of Russian 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): 3 - Nerei class/Krivak III class
• Corvettes: 12 - Grisha II class, 5 - Pauk-class corvette
• Offshore patrol vessels: 27 - various types, 9 - Rubin class patrol boat, 1 - Okean class patrol vessel^[3][4][5]
• Patrol Icebreakers: 3 - Ivan Susanin class icebreaker, 2 - Purga class icebreaker
• Patrol boats (PCF): At least 112 patrol boats , 23 - Sobol class patrol boat, 30 - Svetlyak-class patrol boat, 56 - Mangust class patrol boat, 3 - Mirage class patrol vessel, 19? - Stenka-class patrol boat, 2 - Zhuk-class patrol boat, 2 - Sokzhoy class patrol boat
• River craft: 18 - Vosh class river patrol craft, 8 - Piyavka class river patrol craft, 4 - Ogonek 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.^[6]

Aircraft

• Antonov An-26
• Ilyushin Il-76
• Mil Mi-8
• Kamov Ka-27
• Ka-226T^[7]
• Schiebel Camcopter S-100^[8]

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.^{[9][10][11][12]}

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