Marine landing operations of the armed forces of the USSR

In the monograph of the doctor of historical sciences, the military seaman, the captain of the 1st rank of Vladimir Ivanovich Zhumatia on a huge archival source base was studied the poorly studied problem of naval art - marine landing operations of the Soviet Armed Forces since their origin during the civil war 1918-1921. And before the end of the Great Patriotic War. The focus of the book was given to landing operations 1941-1945. In wars against Nazi Germany and its allies and Militarist Japan. The Great Patriotic War was a special stage in the development of domestic military and naval art, the most important feature of which was the close interaction of various types of troops and species of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Joint operations of the ground forces and the navy contributed to the realization of the most significant goals. In the complexity of the organization of interaction, they were the highest achievement of military and naval art. No other fleet had such a rich experience of versatile, close and long-term interaction with the ground forces, which received our fleet to the Great Patriotic and Soviet-Japanese wars. During the years of the Great Patriotic and Soviet-Japanese wars, the navy, not having specially built landing ships, landed 193 maritime deposits of various scale, including 11 landing operations. The heroic experience of the Soviet paratroopers is devoted to this book