To the 60th anniversary of Great October. The outstanding role of the Baltic Fleet in the preparation and conduct of the Great October Socialist Revolution was covered both in general works and in more detail in a number of special studies. 1 . These works contain extensive factual material describing the versatile work of the Bolshevik Party in the navy, the practical activities of the navy's revolutionary organizations to mobilize its forces for participation in the October armed Uprising, and the place and role of the navy and sailors in securing and consolidating its victory. However, they do not contain a generalized picture of V. I. Lenin's relations with the Baltic Fleet in the autumn of 1917, his acquaintance with the situation in the fleet and the capabilities of its revolutionary forces, the analysis of events that took place in the fleet for a number of very significant conclusions and conclusions that were important for assessing the military and political situation armed insurrection and the tasks of the fleet in it. In this article, the author tries, relying on some well-known, but not systematized or generalized, as well as on some new materials, to examine the revolutionary processes and phenomena that took place in the fleet on the eve of October, to show a deep analysis of them by Lenin in determining the role of the fleet in the uprising, its direct leadership activities in mobilization and use of the fleet forces for active participation in the October armed Uprising. To this end, attention will be focused on those facts, phenomena and events that took place in the navy, which allowed Lenin to draw appropriate conclusions and conclusions, develop concrete proposals and recommendations in describing the political and military circumstances of October Eve, determining the place and practical tasks of the fleet in the uprising. By the autumn of 1917, the revolutionary potential of the Baltic Fleet, its growing Bolshevization, which was the result of ... Read more