The Coastal Troops (Russian: Береговые войска, romanized: Beregovyye voyska) are a service arm of the Russian Navy.

Their missions are to protect Russian fleets' forces, personnel, and seashore objects from enemy surface ships; to defend naval bases and other important facilities of the Fleets from land attacks, including amphibious and air assaults; to participate in amphibious and air assaults; to support the Russian Ground Forces in defending against airborne and amphibious assaults; and to destroy enemy surface ships, boats and amphibious transports in their operational area.

[2] The Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy include three branches:[2] Brigades and battalions are the main organizational elements of the Coastal Troops.

They are also armed with coastal missile systems (CMSs) that launch anti-ship guided missiles, stationary and mobile artillery mounts designed to destroy sea and ground targets, and other weapon systems.

[2] Chief of the Coastal Forces - Major General Sergey Vitalyevich Pushkin Chief of the Coastal Forces - Major General Denis Lyamin Chief of the Coastal Forces - Lieutenant General Andrei Guschin Chief of the Coastal Forces - Lieutenant General Dmitry Kraev This article incorporates text by Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation available under the CC BY 4.0 license.