Gulf of Finland Naval Command (Finnish: Suomenlahden meripuolustusalue, Swedish: Finska vikens marinkommando) was a Finnish Navy unit headquartered in Upinniemi, Kirkkonummi.
The main duty of the Gulf of Finland Naval Command during normal condition was the surveillance of Finnish territorial waters and maintaining territorial integrity. In addition, the Command trained conscripts to fulfill duties in the war-time organisation of the Finnish Defence Forces. The readiness fortresses and particular other units of the Command were permanently in a state of high readiness. The Command was succeeded in 2015 by the Coastal Brigade.[2]
naval base, which is one of the largest military installations in the country. The headquarters of the GulfofFinlandNavalCommand is also located there...
school ship for the Naval Academy until 1992 when she was transferred to the GulfofFinland Fleet (Now called GulfofFinlandNavalCommand). When she was...
Brigade: (Dragsvik, Ekenäs) Naval Academy: (Suomenlinna, Helsinki) Total of 31,500 personnel During the Swedish era, the FinnishGulf saw many battles between...
training for conscripts anymore, as all Finnish Navy conscripts are initially trained at GulfofFinlandNavalCommand's Navy Training Centre at Upinniemi before...
(Swedish: Porkala udd) is a peninsula in the GulfofFinland, located at Kirkkonummi (Kyrkslätt) in Southern Finland. The peninsula had great strategic value...
The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. 'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle', Filipino: Labanan sa Golpo ng Leyte) was the...
The Finnish Army (Finnish: Maavoimat, Swedish: Armén) is the land forces branch of the Finnish Defence Forces. The Finnish Army is divided into six branches:...
concentrated his ships, 10 ship of the line and 17 smaller ships, to the GulfofFinland. The presence of the British naval units kept the Russian battlefleet...
District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, located on Kotlin Island, 30 km (19 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, near the head of the GulfofFinland. It...
Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) (Finnish: Puolustusvoimat, Swedish: Försvarsmakten) are the military ofFinland. The Finnish Defence Forces consist of the...
pajėgos) is the naval arm of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. Though formally established on 1 August 1935 its roots stretch back as far as naval engagements...
needed] Australia contributed a Naval Task Group, which formed part of the multi-national fleet in the Persian Gulf and Gulfof Oman, under Operation Damask...
Battle of Svensksund (Finnish: Ruotsinsalmi; Russian: Rochensalm) was a naval battle fought in the GulfofFinland outside the present day city of Kotka...
endangered part of that isthmus was to the west, near the GulfofFinland, the eastern part was better protected by the natural water-ways of Vuoksi, Suvanto...
the GulfofFinland. In January 1945 he was shifted to command the Odessa Naval Base. Between 1946 and 1948, Zhukov commanded the Southern Naval Region...
block the GulfofFinland to Soviet ships with the help of batteries on the Estonian side. The first naval battle occurred in the GulfofFinland on 1 December...
Persian Gulf (Persian: خلیج فارس, romanized: xalij-e fârs, lit. 'Gulfof Fars', pronounced [xæliːdʒe fɒːɾs]), sometimes called the Arabian Gulf (Arabic:...
the Gulfof Riga north into the GulfofFinland and to Leningrad, through the Neva River, mooring by the decommissioned cruiser Aurora (a symbol of the...
attempted to negotiate with Finland to cede Finnish territory on the Karelian Isthmus and the islands of the GulfofFinland, and to establish a Soviet...
von Jacobi and by Immanuel Nobel, in the GulfofFinland during the Crimean War of 1853–1856. The mining of Vulcan led to the world's first minesweeping...
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