КРЫМ. СЕВАСТОПОЛЬ. ФЛОТ
В статье дан краткий очерк истории создания и развития базы российского флота в Севастополе и участия Черноморского флота в реализации военно-стратегических планов Российской империи и СССР. Представлен авторский взгляд на задачи укрепления Черноморского флота в связи с воссоединением Крыма с Россией. ; Interrelation of naval power and place of fleet basing is an important direction of geopolitical and military strategic studies, especially in a changing geopolitical picture of the world. My article is a brief sketch of the history and development of the Russian naval base in Sevastopol and Black Sea Fleet participation in the implementation of the military-strategic plans of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Analyzing Russian tsars'' decrees related to naval building, archival documents and military-history researches, I tried to show the dependence of the Black Sea Fleet military power from military-technical, scientific and moral state of its base in Sevastopol. So, I argue the most important reasons for the defeat, and then the death of Russian Black Sea Fleet in 1918 were destruction of the unity of command in the army and navy ('democratization' of the army and navy in accordance with Order number 1), activation of Ukrainian nationalism and the policy of Ukrainization in the Navy and as a consequence, its moral decay. I pay special attention to the objectives of strengthening Black Sea Fleet in the new geopolitical situation; especially I focused on military-technical aspect and creation of naval infrastructure.