His early officer service was spent with the
Pacific Fleet, as a lieutenant engineer in the laboratory of the coastal base maintenance workshop. Between 1986 and 1989 he commanded an anti-aircraft missile battery aboard the
Sovremenny-class destroyer Stoykiy. Some fifty senior officers in the fleet were dismissed, briefly leaving Vice-Admiral
Sergei Yeliseyev, a former deputy commander of the
Ukrainian Navy prior to his defection to Russia during the
Russian annexation of Crimea, as senior officer of the Baltic Fleet, before Nosatov took up his post. On 18 October 2016 he was presented with the
ceremonial standard of the fleet. Nosatov was promoted to admiral on 12 December 2018. On 5 October 2021 Nosatov was appointed to the post of Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy. His replacement as commander of the Baltic Fleet was Vice-Admiral
Viktor Liina. Over his years of service Nosatov has been awarded the
Order of Military Merit and the
Order of Naval Merit, as well as various departmental medals. == Personal life ==