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Unit intelligence profile

Coastal Combined Forces Flotilla

Subordinates
2
Locations
8
Profile summary
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military unit 20885, HQ: Fokino

Assessment

Identification

This record most likely corresponds to the Pacific Fleet’s Primorsky Flotilla of Diverse Forces. An official Primorsky legislature release marked the flotilla’s anniversary in Fokino in July 2016, while TASS reported on September 4, 2024 that a flotilla basing point visited by Vladimir Putin was in Ulyss Bay, Vladivostok; this suggests a dispersed Fokino-Vladivostok footprint rather than a single publicly confirmed HQ site. ([zspk.gov.ru](https://www.zspk.gov.ru/press-service/press-relizy/92572/?utm_source=openai))

Submarine posture

Public reporting in 2024-2025 shows the flotilla’s submarine element operating from Vladivostok with both legacy Project 877 and newer Project 636.3 boats. TASS identified Ufa and Komsomolsk-na-Amure as flotilla submarines during April 2025 exercises, and separately reported Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Volkhov, and Magadan returning to base in Vladivostok in 2024-2025; taken together, that indicates a substantial conventional-submarine concentration tied to this formation. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/23674211?utm_source=openai))

Combat activity

Observable missions include anti-submarine warfare, torpedo attack practice, and land-attack cruise-missile employment in the Sea of Japan and Peter the Great Gulf. In 2025 TASS reported a dual-submarine exercise involving Ufa and Komsomolsk-na-Amure, torpedo firings by Komsomolsk-na-Amure in Peter the Great Gulf, and Kalibr strikes by Ufa; in 2021 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky launched a Kalibr from the Sea of Japan against a land target at about 1,000 km range. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/23674211?utm_source=openai))

Basing and infrastructure

The flotilla’s basing network is not limited to submarines. Putin’s September 4, 2024 visit to the flotilla’s basing point in Ulyss Bay was conducted aboard corvette Rezkiy, and TASS later reported Rezkiy conducting air-defense and anti-submarine drills in Peter the Great Gulf; separate court-linked reporting in 2025 continued to describe Ulyss Bay as a naval basing area, underscoring the infrastructure value of this waterfront site. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/21764895?utm_source=openai))

Rescue support

Submarine rescue support is active alongside this force posture. In 2025 TASS reported rescue ship Georgiy Kozmin and deep-submergence rescue apparatus AS-30 conducting drills to aid disabled submarines, and AS-30 had earlier been returned to Vladivostok after maintenance; the exact match between those assets and the specific local rescue placemark in the metadata is not publicly confirmed, but an operational rescue architecture is clearly present. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/24369357?utm_source=openai))

Command structure

Subordinate formations

2

36th Surface Ship Division

36th Surface Ship Division

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(Project 1164 Atlant guided-missile cruiser: Varyag 011), (Project 956 Sarych destroyer: Boyevoy 720, Burny 778. Bystry 715, Bezboyaznenny 754)

36th Surface Ship Division

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(Project 1155 Fregat anti-submarine destroyer: Admiral Panteleyev 548, Admiral Tributs 564, Admiral Vinogradov 572, Marshal Shaposhnikov 543)

100th Landing Ship Brigade

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(Project 775(M): BDK-11 Peresvet 077, BDK-98 Admiral Nevelskoy 055, BDK-101 Oslyabya 066), (Project 1171 landing ship: BDK Nikolay Vilkov 081), (Project 21820 landing craft: Ivan Kartsov 685)

165th Surface Ship Brigade

2nd Guards Missile Boat Squadron

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(Project 1241T missile boat: R-79 995), (Project 12411(M) missile boat: R-11 940, R-14 924, R-18 937, R-19 978, R-20 921, R-24 946, R-29 916, R-261 991, R-297 954, R-298 971)

11th Water Area Protection Squadron

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(Project 1124M corvette: MPK-17 Ust-Ilimsk 362, MPK-64 Metel, MPK-221 Primorskiy Komsomolets 354, MPK-222 Koreyets 390), (Project 1265 minesweeper: BT-114, BT-232 525, BT-100 565)

Geospatial index

Known places

8

19th Submarine Brigade

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(Project 877 Paltus diesel-electric attack submarine: B-187 Komsomolsk-on-Amur 529, B-190 Krasnokamensk 521, B-394 Nurlat 522, B-464 Ust-Kamchatsk 547, B-494 Ust-Bolsheretsk 549), (Project 636.3: B-274 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, B-588 Ufa, B-602 Magadan, B-603 Volkhov)

703rd Logistics Center

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military unit 25030-4

703rd Logistics Center

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military unit 25030-18

72nd Submarine Construction and Repair Separate Brigade

79th Rescue Detachment

n/a Support Vessel Detachment

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military unit 44751

Hydrographic Service of the Pacific Fleet

Coastal Combined Forces Flotilla HQ (?)

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military unit 20885