The Pacific Fleet (Russian: Тихоокеанский флот, romanized: Tikhookeansky flot [1]) is the Russian Navy fleet in the Pacific Ocean. Established in 1731 as part of the Imperial Russian Navy , the fleet was known as the Okhotsk Military Flotilla (1731–1856) and Siberian Military Flotilla (1856–1918), formed to defend Russian ...

Should a major crisis occur on the Asia-Pacific stage, the Russian Pacific Fleet should be capable of denying access to the Bering Strait, closing the Eastern outlet to the Arctic. New Russian naval platforms will sail under the protection of the already deployed S-400 antiair missiles, Bastion antiship missiles, as well as Bal coastal batteries.

While Russia maintains a potent naval force in the Pacific, China has the largest navy in the world with roughly 340 ships and submarines, and is expected to grow to 400 ships by 2025 and...

In the early 19th century, Sevastopol became the main Black Sea port of the Russian Empire. This city of military glory, which was a battlefield in a number of wars, is now the main naval...

Ports and harbours along the Pacific Coast of Russia — located on the Pacific Ocean and its seas and bays, in the Russian Far East region. The Pacific coastline runs from the North Korean border up to the Bering Strait transition to the Arctic Ocean .