was assigned a Marine unit of regiment (and later brigade) size. The Naval Infantry received amphibious versions of standard Armoured fighting vehicle, including tanks used by the Soviet Army. By 1989, the Naval Infantry numbered 18,000 marines, organized into a Marine Division and 4 independent Marine brigades; 55th Naval Infantry Division, at Vladivostok (Pacific Fleet) 61st Kirkenes Naval Infantry Brigade at Pechenga (Northern Fleet) 175th Naval Infantry Brigade, at Tumanny (Northern Fleet) 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade at Baltiysk (Baltic Fleet) 810th Naval Infantry Brigade, at Sevastopol (Black Sea Fleet) By the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Navy had over eighty landing ships, as well as two s. The latter could transport one infantry battalion with 40 armoured vehicles and their landing craft. (One of the Rogov ships has since been retired.) At 75 units, the Soviet Union had the world's largest inventory of combat air-cushion assault craft. In addition, many of the 2,500 vessels of the Soviet merchant fleet (Morflot) could off-load weapons and supplies during amphibious landings. On 18 November 1990, on the eve of the Paris Summit where the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty and the Vienna Document on Confidence and Security-Building Measures (CSBMs) were signed, Soviet data was presented under the so-called initial data exchange. This showed a rather sudden emergence of three so-called coastal defence divisions (including the 3rd at Klaipėda in the Baltic Military District, the 126th in the Odessa Military District and seemingly the 77th Guards Motor Rifle Division with the Northern Fleet), along with three artillery brigades/regiments, subordinate to the Soviet Navy, which had previously been unknown as such to NATO. Much of the equipment, which was commonly understood to be treaty limited (TLE) was declared to be part of the naval infantry. The Soviet argument was that the CFE excluded all naval forces, including its permanently land-based components. The Soviet Government eventually became convinced that its position could not be maintained. A proclamation of the Soviet government on 14 July 1991, which was later adopted by its successor states, provided that all "treaty-limited equipment" (tanks, artillery, and armored vehicles) assigned to naval infantry or coastal defense forces, would count against the total treaty entitlement. Heads of the Soviet Naval Forces Commanders of the Naval Forces Commanders of Naval Forces of the RSFSR ("KoMorSi") Vasili Mikhailovich Altfater (15 October 1918 – 22 April 1919), Yevgeny Andreyevich Berens (24