Russian Military Activities in the Arctic (2010–2018)

• Main Author: Kubiak, Krzysztof
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Polish
• Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Dolnośląskiej Szkoły Wyższej 2020
• Subjects: hist; Arctic; Canada; Norway
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.34862/rbm.2020.1.6; https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2139708.pdf; https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2139708

The activities of a few states in the Arctic taken in recent years attract the attention of the international opinion. We can observe arousing emotions, which achieves a particularly high level in relation to the issue of military presence in the High North. Military forces and various installations are currently maintained by five countries: Canada, the United States, Denmark, Norway, and Russia. The largest potential of the last of these countries, which also controls the longest part, almost half of the Arctic Sea coast. The article attempts to characterize the current level of Russian military activity in the Arctic. Attention was given first of all to the creating of the fifth Russian strategic territorial command on the basis of Northern Fleet Command and the restoration of military presence in the Arctic archipelagos, which were abandoned - primarily for financial reasons - after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Apart from the description, the author attempts to build a forecast regarding the further development of military architecture on the “top of the globe”. At the same time, because a coherent picture of the role of the Arctic in theory and the military practice of the Soviet Union during the Cold War era is outlined in other publications, this text presents the actions taken in the Russian Federation to strengthen the position of the state in the north after the period of "Jelcin's Smell" (1991-1999). Podejmowana w ostatnich latach działalność państw w Arktyce przykuwa uwagę zarówno opinii międzynarodowej, jak i środków masowej komunikacji funkcjonujących nie tyle dzięki dostarczaniu informacji, ile budzeniu emocji. Szczególne wysoki poziom osiągają one w odniesieniu do kwestii obecności wojskowej na Dalekiej Północy. Siły wojskowe oraz rozmaite instalacje utrzymuje tam obecnie pięć państw: Kanada, Stany Zjednoczone, Dania, Norwegia i Rosja. Największym potencjałem dysponuje ostatnie z wymienionych państw, w którego granicach znajduje się również najdłuższy odcinek, bo niemal połowa, wybrzeża ...