The struggle for the Caspian and the Caspian Flotilla

The Caspian region plays a key role in Russian history with the epoch of the Education of the Old Russian state. Russian courts went to the Caspian Sea with IX century. - At this time, one of the largest trade routes of the early-service world took place through the Volga on the Caspian. As of Peter I, Caspian flotilla was created, without the participation of which it was impossible to join Russia Transcaucasia and Central Asia. In 1918-1920 Flotilla"s actions against the British, White Guards and Musavatists on the Caspiani were more intense than in Baltic, the Black Sea and the Arctic Ocean. In 1941-1945 According to the Caspian Sea, hundreds of thousands of military personnel and refugees, millions of tons of oil, cotton and other strategic materials were transported. Currently, the ships of the Caspian flotilla apply missile strikes on objects in Syria and through the Caspian Sea is carried out transit of military equipment. About the heroic victories of the Caspian flotilla tells Alexander Wigvorad