This account is for sharing photos of the former red fleet and hopefully shedding more light on it. Sailor (Lieutenant) on the Admiral Yumashev (Kresta II Class BPK) next to TAKR Minsk in 1979

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Toulon

The cruiser Molotovsk at Oslo, 1956.

Light breeze

Project 68bis Aleksandr Nevsky.

KRU Zhdanov

Parizhskaya Kommuna

Marines of the Amur Flotilla on the streets of Harbin in August 1945.

Joined the trend and put the naval ensign on Shumshu Island

Avacha Bay

The guard ship Metel loading troops bound for landings in Korea during the Manchurian Offensive Operation in August 1945.

Life of Kirov

Video of 846 OMShAP operating Su-17s in Kaliningrad during the late days of the USSR

An R-60 AAM and S-25 rocket loaded onto a naval Su-17.

Note: They didn't always have the naval ensign as a marking. This was something retroactively applied to naval aviation aircraft after the Yak-38 went into service adorned with the flag on the fuselage. Early examples look identical to the air force.

The 43rd was the last to retire them in the 1990s, these are examples at Simferopol in 1994.

These were used by 4 OMShAPs (Seperate Naval Attack Aviation Regiments) of 3 fleets:. 66th OMShAP (Baltic, based in Leningrad Oblast).846 OMShAP (Baltic, based in Kaliningrad).43rd OMShAP (Black Sea, based in Simferopol).173 OMShAP (Pacific, based in Romanovka)