One thing to keep in mind is that Naval Infantry are NOT Marines. In most countries, Marines have a lot more training, from marksmanship to specialized assaults to rearguard actions.
The closest Western approximation to Russian Naval Infantry are the troops who landed on the beaches on D-Day -- they are trained to land on beaches and take objectives, then fight their way in, and some of them has specialist training to allow them to do things like blow wire and blast seawalls and fortifications -- but they are not specially-trained troops like Marines are.
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