The Rise of the Soviet Navy - Part 1

Made by the U.S. Navy at the height of the Cold War, this informative film chronicles the history of the Soviet Navy from the Czarist era through WWI, the Revolution, WWII, and the Cold War. The film begins with shots of the helicopter aircraft carrier Moscow / Moskva on its maiden voyage in the Mediterranean Sea in 1968. The Kashin class guided-missile destroyers, the world's first major ships built with gas turbine propulsion, are also shown along with Soviet nuclear submarines. These sophisticated warships are seen to epitomize the Soviet naval threat to the West. The story of the Soviet Navy is a complicated one, and the film presents it using fascinating archival footage, some of it clearly pulled from the movies of Sergei Eisenstein. The Russian Imperial Navy that existed under Czar Nicholas II is shown, consisting of dreadnoughts, battleships and submarines. The royal yacht is seen briefly, with Princess Anastasia. Almost this entire fleet would be destroyed by the end of the Revolution, and Anasatasia and Nicholas II's family would be murdered. Aleksandr Kolchak, who led the White Russian navy during the period of the Civil War, is shown prior to his defeat and execution. Under Lenin, the navy would be only partially rebuilt, as suspicions existed as to the loyalty of the officer corps. This, despite the fact that the crew of the cruiser Aurora were among the first to join the call to arms. Under Stalin, the Soviet Navy would rebound, and a new canal was built between Leningrad and Murmansk that allowed unfettered access to the White Sea for the first time. The fleet would play only a small role during WWII however, as most of it remained bottled up by German forces. After the war, Kruschev began new building programs , and the Soviets quickly expanded their fleet into the current, world-ranging model. Shown in the film are nuclear submarines, submarines capable of firing nuclear ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, ice breakers, guided missile cruisers and destroyers, and the ships of the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea and Pacific Ocean fleets. Also shown is Soviet naval aviation including land-based bombers, amphibians, heliopters, and fighters.

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[KarlisKlotins]

Well, before the WWI there was no "Soviet Union". It was "Russian Empire", so theoretically term "Soviet Navy" should be used for events which took place after 1922 (USSR proclamation)

[massivesovietunion]

@FIFA07Addicted Soviet Union was OFFICIALLY Declared in 1922

[jags4lifefan]

@FIFA07Addicted Also FIFA having gone on google and looking at your past comments like this one I can tell you are a MASSIVE troll.And thus you were wrong to flame me over the Arby n the Chief Severence video for "ruining peoples day" by saying that Trent Donovich was the leader of Chaos Theosis.

[jags4lifefan]

@FIFA07Addicted FIFA The massivesovietunion is right the Soviet Union was officially declared on December 30 1922.In 1917 the Russian Empire was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution there was a struggle for power among the Bolsheviks and the White Army which lead to the Russian Civil War.The Red Army won and THEN established the Soviet Union in 1922.

[warpedcomedy]

@WTFmode1 About 1968.

[MrDiredemon]

@soldier135799 its not such a tiny error if you're russian :/

[soldier135799]

@KarlisKlotins Do you get off on picking out tiny errors that no one cares about? honestly.

[Vyylandra]

@WTFmode1 i that the video dates from 1970 or 1971

[EminidisMike]

Russians owned outstanding shipbuilding technology back then and they were ahead of American counterparts way to go...

[Jrhoney]

Cool Stuff.

[WTFmode1]

what is the video date ?

[snowboredsnj]

@FIFA07Addicted maybe you should watch the video b4 you start slinging insults. They mention alot of pre soviet history. They talk bout imperial russia's navy at some length...and considering the remnants of the russian navy would have served as the base for building a soviet navy, mentioning its history seems more than warranted. I guess by your logic the makers of this vid are idiots too for talking bout the pre soviet era naval history.