Subsequently, the importance of the Anaklia port significantly reduced, but it remained a minor Black Sea Fleet base in the Soviet times.
Sevastopol is also separate from the surrounding region (Autonomous Republic of Crimea), retaining its special status from Soviet times as closed city, serving as a base for the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet.
Mykola Arkas was born on December 26, 1852 (7 January 1853), in Nikolaev in the family of Black Sea Fleet Admiral Mykola Arkas and Sophia, née Bogdanovich.
Vekha was a military transport ship of the Black Sea Fleet that briefly joined the Potemkin mutiny.
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The first charge of guns was used to equipped the cruiser Svetlana and the Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleships of the Black Sea Fleet.
The 12 inch 40 caliber became the Navy's standard main gun and was employed on all its pre-dreadnought battleships starting with Sissoi Veliky of the Baltic Fleet and Tri Sviatitelia of the Black Sea Fleet.
Today, the city is home to the Ukrainian Navy as well as the Russian Black Sea Fleet until 2042, governed by the Kharkiv Accords signed in 2010.
On November 2, following an agreement between Eduard Shevardnadze and Commander-in-Chief of the Black Sea Fleet Admiral E. Baltin, units of the Russian fleet landed in Poti to consolidate the government control over the key harbor and help establish order in the town.
During World War I Sablin commanded the cruiser squadron of the Black Sea Fleet, and took part in numerous combat actions against the Imperial German Navy and Ottoman Navy, for which he was awarded the Order of Saint George for his valour.