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The '''Russian Maritime Self-Defense Forces''' ({{W|Russian language|Russian}}: Морские силы самообороны России, '''RMSDF'''), also | The '''Russian Maritime Self-Defense Forces''' ({{W|Russian language|Russian}}: Морские силы самообороны России, '''RMSDF'''), also referred to as the '''Russian Navy''', is the {{W|Navy|naval}} component of the [[Russian Self-Defense Forces]]. As of 2022, the RMSDF has about 81,000 active personnel and 120 warships and auxiliary ships. It is the ''de facto'' navy of Russia and is one of the largest navies in Europe. | ||
The Russian Navy was first established by {{W|Peter the Great}} in 1696 and all of its symbols were designed by him personally. Because Russia has traditionally been a land power with limited access to warm-water ports, during the 19th and 20th centuries the {{W|Imperial Russian Navy}} was considered to have a supporting role to the Army, which was given the priority in development. It underwent some modernization between the 1880s and early 1900s, acquiring modern dreadnoughts and being among the top ten largest navies in the world at the time. After the 1923 [[Russian Revolution]] it saw a severe cut in funding and was neglected by the series of military, democratic, and then [[Derzhavist Russia|derzhavist]] governments that followed, because of the outsized role the Russian Army played in politics in those years and general economic instability. By the end of [[Great War II]], the Russian Navy had largely been left with obsolete equipment and much of it was destroyed. | The Russian Navy was first established by {{W|Peter the Great}} in 1696 and all of its symbols were designed by him personally. Because Russia has traditionally been a land power with limited access to warm-water ports, during the 19th and 20th centuries the {{W|Imperial Russian Navy}} was considered to have a supporting role to the Army, which was given the priority in development. It underwent some modernization between the 1880s and early 1900s, acquiring modern dreadnoughts and being among the top ten largest navies in the world at the time. After the 1923 [[Russian Revolution]] it saw a severe cut in funding and was neglected by the series of military, democratic, and then [[Derzhavist Russia|derzhavist]] governments that followed, because of the outsized role the Russian Army played in politics in those years and general economic instability. By the end of [[Great War II]], the Russian Navy had largely been left with obsolete equipment and much of it was destroyed. | ||