The Black Sea Fleet (BSF) is an operational-strategic association of the Navy of Russia in the Black Sea.
The Russian Black Sea Fleet, as a part of the Navy, is a means of ensuring Russia's military security in the south.

To perform the tasks the Black Sea Fleet has in its composition diesel-driven submarines, surface ships for operations in oceanic and near-sea areas, naval missile-carrying aviation, anti-submarine and fighter aviation, units of coastal troops.

Currently, the main tasks of Russian Black Sea Fleet are as follows:

• Protection of the economic zone and areas of productive activities, suppression of illegal productive activities;
• ensuring safety of navigation;
• implementation of foreign policy actions of the Government in economically important areas of the oceans (visits, routine entries, joint exercises, actions as a part of peacekeeping forces, etc.)