DANUBE FLOTILLA (1770-1774)
Journal Title: Чорноморська минувшина - Year 2017, Vol 12, Issue
Abstract
The purpose of the research is to reconstruct the formation and combat activities of the Danube Flotilla in the Russian-Turkish War of 1768-1774. Achieving this goal required solving the following research tasks: 1) to determine the place of the Danube Flotilla in the plans of the Russian government and high command during the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774; 2) to spot the specifics of the formation and problems of the construction of the flotilla; 3) to specify the functions and characteristics of the battle activities of the flotilla; 4) to show the significance of the activities of the Danube Flotilla in solution to the Black Sea problem in the 2nd half of the XVIII century. The object of research of this work is the Danube Flotilla of the period of the Russian-Turkish War of 1768-1774. The subject of the study is the military service of the Danube Flotilla of 1770-1774. The territorial boundaries of the study are determined by the Danube Theater of Military Operations of 1770-1774, аnd include the territories of Southern Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Bulgaria. The scientific novelty of the results is a comprehensive research a subject of the formation and military activities of the Danube Flotilla in the Russian-Turkish War of 1768-1774, which was insufficiently developed in domestic and foreign historiography. Materials of the work can be used in the development of the following issues: the history of shipbuilding; the military activities of the river flotillas of the Black Sea pool; the history of the Zaporozhye Cossacks; the developing of generalizing works on the military-political history of Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. Generally, military operations on the Danube in 1770-1774 showed that the Danube Flotilla did not meet expectations of the Russian government. At the same time, it should be noted, that the government did not fully understand the realities faced by the army and navy on the Danube. Practice has shown the following: the rivers in Moldova and Wallachia were unsuitable for military shipbuilding; in the region adjoining the Danube region, timber, vehicles, and specialists in shipbuilding and carpentry were not sufficient for fleet needs; the long distance of the Danube theater of military operations from the bases of the Russian fleet made construction very costly both financially and temporally. All this was superimposed on the unsatisfactory organization of fleet services, ignorance of the command of the region, and the lack of experience of Russian seamen; experience and knowledge were acquired literally on the run. Along with this, the specialists of the marine business explore the necessary hydrographic data and received invaluable battle experience, which will be in demand in the next Russian-Turkish wars. Finally became the question, how affected construction the Russian military flotilla on the of the development Danube region? Definitely-it led to the useless destruction of the forest resources of the region and the burdening of the population, which had no benefit from this. The most valuable timber Russians took with them, the rest was burnt. The shipbuilding experience acquired by the Russians in this war was not used by the population of the Danube region in the future.
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Gennady Shpitalov
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