Coast Guard (Russia)

Coast Guard of the FSB Border Service of Russia Береговая охрана ПС ФСБ России
Racing stripe since 1993
Naval ensign since 2008
Pennants for ships and boats since 2008
Agency overview
Formed	20 July 2004
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Russia
Specialist jurisdiction	Coastal patrol, marine border protection, marine search and rescue.
Operational structure
Agency executive	Admiral Gennady Medvedev, Acting Commander of the Coast Guard
Parent agency	Federal Security Service FSB Border Service
Facilities
Boats	300 vessels
Notables
People	Inokentiy Nalyotov Vyacheslav Serzhanin
Significant operation	War on Piracy Russo-Georgian War 2021 Black Sea incident Russo-Ukrainian war Invasion of Crimea Kerch Strait incident Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Coast Guard of the FSB Border Service of Russia (Russian: Береговая охрана Пограничной службы ФСБ России, romanized: Beregovaya okhrana Pogranichnoy sluzhby FSB Rossii), previously known as the Maritime Units of the KGB Border Troops (Russian: Морские части Пограничных Войск КГБ СССР), is the coast guard of Russia.

The purpose of the formation of the Coast Guard of the FSB Border Service of Russia is to create a modern comprehensive and multifunctional system for protecting the national interests of Russia in the border area on the border area (sea coast, inland sea waters and the territorial sea), in the exclusive economic zone and on the continental shelf of Russia, taking into account the ongoing changes in political, economic, social life in the country and providing favorable conditions for the implementation of legal economic, fishing and other activities in the maritime border area of Russia.

Currently, the Coast Guard is part of the FSB Border Service of Russia (Russian: Пограничная служба ФСБ России).^[1]