Coastal Combined Forces Flotilla
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))