In the article, on the basis of previously unpublished documents of the Russian State Military Archive, the history of the Vladivostok fortress in 1922–1923 is presented. It is shown that contrary to the opinion rooted in the research literature, the liquidation of the Vladivostok fortress was connected not with foreign political events and agreements, but with the changes that followed in the Red Army after the end of the Civil War. The main reasons why the Vladivostok fortress ceased to exist in the first half of the 1920s were the lack of money to support its further existence and serious changes in the theory and practice of coastal defense caused by the experience of World War I and the introduction of new technologies in military affairs. In the 1920s the very changes in the theory and practice of military affairs took place, which predetermined the use of Vladivostok fortress facilities by the Pacific Fleet forces in the 1930s – 1950s as for the defense of the city and naval base, so placement of warehouses and communication facilities, taking into account all the changes in military theory.
Vladivostok fortress, RSFSR, DVR, Workers' Peasants' Red Army, Vladivostok, Far East, People's Commissariat for Military and Maritime Affairs
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