| Northern Fleet Joint Strategic Command | |
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| Объединённое стратегическое командование «Северный флот» | |
 Great emblem of the Northern Fleet | |
| Founded | 1 December 2014 |
| Disbanded | 1 March 2024[1] |
| Country |  Russia |
| Type | Military district |
| Part of | .svg){kind=small} Russian Armed Forces |
| Garrison/HQ | Severomorsk |
| Website | Official website |
| Commanders | |
| Final Commander | Admiral Alexander Moiseyev |
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The Northern Fleet Joint Strategic Command (Russian: Объединённое стратегическое командование «Северный флот», romanized: Ob'edinyonnoye strategicheskoe komandovanie (Severn'y Flot)), was a military district of the Russian Armed Forces, with its jurisdiction primarily within the northern region of European Russia and the Arctic Ocean.[2][3][4]
The Northern Fleet Joint Strategic Command was the third largest military-administered district by geographic size. It contained four federal subjects of Russia: Arkhangelsk Oblast, Komi Republic, Murmansk Oblast, and Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Additionally, the command contains most of Russia's islands in the Arctic Sea, including those located in federal subjects not within the district. The command's main aim was to concentrate all military responsibility over Russia's territories in the Arctic as well as secure all Russian interests and power projection in the region.[5]
The command was headquartered in Severomorsk, and its former military commander is Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev, who held the position since 3 May 2019.
In October 2023 a decree was prepared to strip the Northern Fleet of its special status as a military district.[6] In early 2024, it was announced that be subsumed into the wider, newly reconstituted Leningrad Military District. On 26 February 2024, by decision on President Vladimir Putin's, the Leningrad Military District was separated from the Western Military District as a separate military-administrative unit of Russia, abolishing the Northern Fleet Joint Strategic Command, effective on 1 March.[7]
- ^ "Путин воссоздал Московский и Ленинградский военные округа - Газета.Ru | Новости". Газета.Ru (in Russian). 2024-03-18. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ Keck, Zachary (21 February 2014). "Russia to Establish Arctic Military Command". The Diplomat. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ "Russia's Defense Ministry establishes Arctic Strategic Command". TASS. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ "Russian military forming drone squadron for Arctic reconnaissance". TASS. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ "Joint Strategic Command". GlobalSecurity. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 8, 2023".
- ^ "Путин воссоздал Московский и Ленинградский военные округа - Газета.Ru | Новости". Газета.Ru (in Russian). 2024-03-18. Retrieved 2024-03-17.