The Russian navy according to a German army intelligence report dated 1 May 1938

 

Battleship (Petrovlovsk 1909-1921) Marat 1921-1943 (Petropavlovsk 1943-1950, Volkhov 1950-1953)

Original postcard Chocolate La Estrella

Russian cruiser Maxim Gorky 1936-1959

Russian light cruiser Kirov 1935-1974

Russian Leningrad destroyer leaders-class

The details were supplied by the German Kriegsmarine. On 15 January 1938 was the Russian navy separated from the People’s commissioner for defence getting her own People’s commissioner with army commissioner 1st rank P.A. Smirnow as head and with as deputies P.I. Smirnow-Swetlowski and Isakow. The navy was divided in several departments, namely the Admiralty staff, the Baltic Fleet (main harbour Kronstadt-Leningrad), White Sea Fleet (Poljarnoje), Black Sea Fleet (Sevastopol), Far East Fleet (Vladivostok), Caspian Sea Flotilla (Baku), Dnjepr Flotilla (Kiev) and Amur Flotilla (Chabarowsk). Furthermore there was a naval air force, coastal defence including air defence and marines. Except for the larger ships there was a large number of minehunters, guard vessels, training ships, auxiliary ships and so on. The naval air force numbered at least 832 aircraft. In an appendix were the strengths of the several fleets/flotillas given:

Baltic Fleet 2 battleships (46.862 tons), 1-8.000 tons cruiser, 1-3.50 tons mine cruiser, 2 flotilla leaders (6.000 tons), 7 destroyers (8.879 tons), 10 torpedo boats (7.000 tons), 88 submarines (40.245 tons).

White Sea fleet 1? flotilla leader (3.000 tons), 3 destroyers (4.016 tons), 3 torpedo boats (2.100 tons), 25 submarines (13.842 tons)

Black Sea Fleet 1-23.016 ton battleship, 4 cruisers (27.902 tons), 5 destroyers (6.577 tons), 2 torpedo boats (1.400 tons), 46 submarines (25.000 tons), 5 gunboats (5.500 tons)

Dnjepr flotilla 6 gunboats (3.800 tons)

Caspian Sea Flotilla 3 torpedo boats (2.130 tons), 5 gunboats (2.620 tons)

Far East Fleet 2 destroyers (2.490 tons), 6 torpedo boats (4.200 tons), 69 submarines (29.228 tons), 3 gunboats (3.522 tons)

Amur flotilla 22 gunboats (3.522 tons)

Totally 3 battleships (69.878 tons), 5 cruisers (35.902), 1 mine cruiser (3.500), 3 flotilla leaders (9.000), 17 destroyers (21.962), 24 torpedo boats (16,830), 228 submarines (107.955) and 41 gunboats (24.232)=322 units with 289.259 tons.

Along the Black Sea coast between Odessa and Batumi were sea border forces active fitted out with at last cutter-fats boats. More details were not known.

Source

General Command of the Ground Forces (OKH). Case 217. Website