He remained in the navy after its formation as a Russian military force, rising through the ranks and serving in a number of posts in the Pacific Fleet.

Having served for only just over a month as head of the academy, Nosatov was appointed acting commander of the Baltic Fleet, and subsequently confirmed in the post later that year.

[1] His early officer service was spent with the Pacific Fleet, as a lieutenant engineer in the laboratory of the coastal base maintenance workshop.

[3] Nosatov studied at the N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy, graduating in 2000, and then took over his own command, that of the Pacific Fleet destroyer Bystryy.

[3] Nosatov undertook further studies, this time at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, which he left in 2009.

[1][2][3] On 30 June 2016, after one and a half months as head of the academy, Nosatov was appointed acting commander of the Baltic Fleet, replacing Vice-Admiral Viktor Kravchuk [ru] who was dismissed for "serious omissions in the organization of combat training, the daily activities of the troops, as well as distortions in the reports of the true state of affairs.