Bor'ba za Kaspii i Kaspiiskaia flotiliia - Shirokorad Aleksandr Borisovich

The Caspian region has played a key role in Russian history since the founding of the Old Russian State. Russian ships have been walking on the Caspian Sea since the 9th century - at this time one of the largest trade routes of the early medieval world passed through the Volga to the Caspian Sea. At the behest of Peter I, the Caspian flotilla was created, without the participation of which it was impossible to annex the Caucasus and Central Asia to Russia.
In 1918-1920. the actions of the flotilla against the British, White Guards and Musavatists in the Caspian Sea were more intense than in the Baltic, the Black Sea and the Arctic Ocean. In 1941-1945. hundreds of thousands of troops and refugees, millions of tons of oil, cotton and other strategic materials were transported across the Caspian Sea
. Currently, the ships of the Caspian flotilla are carrying out missile strikes on targets in Syria and through the Caspian Sea transit of military equipment. The book of historian Alexander Shirorad tells about the heroic victories of the Caspian flotilla.