Baltic Fleet
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The Baltic Fleet is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea.
A modern replica of the fleet's first vessel, the 24-gun three-masted frigate Shtandart
The Battle of Gangut
Sailors of the Baltic Fleet ashore at Nossi Bé, December 1904
The naval St. Nicholas Cathedral in St. Petersburg is the main church of the Russian Navy. Its outside is covered with plaques to Russian sailors/officers lost at sea.
Kronstadt rebellion
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The Kronstadt rebellion was a 1921 insurrection of Soviet sailors, naval infantry, and civilians against the Bolshevik government in the Russian port city of Kronstadt. Located on Kotlin Island in the
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…however, the relations of the Baltic Fleet sailors with the Bolshevik regime soured, and they eventually rebelled against the Soviet government in the Kronstadt rebellion in 1921, but were suppressed and executed, and the fleet de facto ceased to exist as an active military unit. The fleet, renamed the Red-Banner Baltic…
Loyalist Red Army soldiers on the frozen Gulf of Finland attacking the island fortress of Kronstadt
Prior to 1917, Kronstadt sailors revolted in 1905 (depicted) and 1906
The crew of the Petropavlovsk during the March 1917 Baltic Fleet riot of March 1917
The resolution taken by the Kronstadt seamen, containing demands such as the election of free soviets and freedom of speech and press