The Coastal Troops () are a service arm of the Russian Navy. Their missions are to protect Russian fleets' forces, personnel, and seashore objects from enemy surface ships; to defend naval bases and other important facilities of the Fleets from land attacks, including amphibious and air assaults; to participate in amphibious and air assaults; to support the Russian Ground Forces in defending against airborne and amphibious assaults; and to destroy enemy surface ships, boats and amphibious transports in their operational area.
Subordinate branches and equipment
The Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy include three branches: Coastal Defence Missile Artillery Motorized coastal defence troops Naval Infantry
Brigades and battalions are the main organizational elements of the Coastal Troops.
The Coastal Troops are mainly equipped with combined arms armaments and equipment. They are also armed with coastal missile systems (CMSs) that launch anti-ship guided missiles, stationary and mobile artillery mounts designed to destroy sea and ground targets, and other weapon systems.
List of units
Pacific Fleet
Chief of the Coastal Forces - Major General Sergey Vitalyevich Pushkin
72nd Coastal Missile Brigade (Smolyaninovo, Primorsky Krai). 216th Electronic Warfare Regiment (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka Krai) 155th Naval Infantry Brigade (Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai) Brigade HQ: Reconnaissance Battalion, Engineer Battalion, Logistics Battalion, Signal Company, Amphibious Company, Anti-tank Company, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Squad 59th Naval Infantry Battalion 47th Air Assault Battalion Tank Battalion 287th Artillery Divizion 288th Air Defence Divizion 40th Naval Infantry Brigade (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatsky Krai) Brigade HQ: Reconnaissance Battalion, Engineer Battalion, Logistics Battalion, Signal Company, Amphibious Company, Anti-tank Company, MLRS Divizion, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Squad Naval Infantry Battalion Air Assault Battalion Tank Company Artillery Divizion Air Defence Divizion Rifles Company 520th Coastal Missile-Artillery Brigade (Sakhalin Island, Sakhalin Oblast) 1036th Coastal Missile-Artillery Divizion (Sakhalin Island, Sakhalin Oblast) 830th Coastal Missile-Artillery Divizion (Sakhalin Island, Sakhalin Oblast) 412nd Coastal Missile-Artillery Divizion (Sakhalin Island, Sakhalin Oblast) 574th Coastal Missile-Artillery Divizion (Iturup Island, Sakhalin Oblast) 789th Coastal Missile-Artillery Divizion (Simushir Island, Sakhalin Oblast) Kunashir Island Coastal Missile-Artillery Divizion (Kunashir Island, Sakhalin Oblast) Matua Island Coastal Missile-Artillery Divizion (Matua Island, Sakhalin Oblast) 97th Coastal Artillery Divizion (Iturup Island, Sakhalin Oblast) 140th Communications Center (Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai) 471st Electronic Warfare Center (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatsky Krai) 474th Electronic Warfare Center (Shtykovo, Primorsky Krai) 1532nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatsky Krai). Since April 2015, the regiment is armed with S-400 air defence system.