Russia’s most outstanding naval ships set sail

On October 30, Russia celebrates the Foundation Day of the Russian Navy

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Admiral Kuznetsov is the Russian Navy’s largest warship and its sole aircraft carrier capable of carrying horizontal take-off and landing aircraft. It carries up to 52 aircraft, among them Su-33, MiG-29K fighters, Ka-27 helicopters, Su-25 UTG/UBP aircraft

Flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet guided missile cruiser Moskva

Flagship of Russia's Northern Fleet Kirov-class heavy missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy

The Project 22350 lead frigate Admiral Gorshkov armed with Oniks and Kalibr cruise missiles and Poliment-Redut surface-to-air missile systems

The Varyag guided missile cruiser, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet

The Steregushchy (Project 20380) is the newest class of corvette in the Russian Navy

Project 20380/20385 warships are a series of multi-purpose corvettes (guard ships) developed for the Russian Navy for coastal water operations. Photo: Soobrazitelnyy corvette

The Marshal Krylov is the only Missile Range Instrumentation or tracking ship in the Russian Navy. Tracking Ships are ships equipped with antennas and electronics to support the launching and tracking of missiles and rockets

Ivan Kartsov is a newest project 21820 landing craft

Oceanographic research vessel project 22010 Yantar joined Russian Navy in 2015

The fourth generation Borei class ballistic missile submarine Vladimir Monomakh was developed by the Rubin Design Bureau. The submarine will be armed with 16 of the newest submarine-launched ballistic missile developed in Russia, the Bulava

The fourth generation Borei class ballistic missile submarine Alexander Nevsky. The Borey is Russia’s first post-Soviet ballistic missile submarine class and will form the mainstay of the strategic submarine fleet

Another fourth generation Borei class ballistic missile submarine Yury Dolgorukiy

Yasen-class nuclear attack submarine Severodvinsk. The Russian Navy plans to have two Yasen-class submarines in service by 2015

Project 971 nuclear-powered attack submarine Shchuka-B

Project 636 diesel submarine Varshavyanka

October 30 is the Foundation Day of the Russian Navy. On October 30, 1695, the Boyars’ Duma, the council of aristocracy, passed the first Russian law about a fleet - “Let the sea vessels be”, and the building of the ships started in Voronezh, Moscow and several other cities. The Russian Navy comprises the Northern Fleet, the Russian Pacific Fleet, the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Russian Baltic Fleet and the Russian Caspian Flotilla. The most outstanding ships of the fleets in this photo gallery by TASS.