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234 Years of Naval Glory, and Counting: Russian Black Sea Fleet Marks Birthday


Following Crimea’s absorption into the Russian Empire in 1783, it quickly became apparent to Empress Catherine the Great that the peninsula on the Black Sea required a fleet to defend it. Ahtiar Bay, a sparsely populated area located in the southwest of the peninsula, was chosen to serve as the base for the fleet, and it was here that the city of Sevastopol was founded. On […]
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