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Commander-in-Chief Of The Russian Navy
The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy (Russian: Главнокомандующий ВМФ) is the chief commanding authority of the Russian Navy. He is appointed by the President of Russia. The position dates to the period of the Russian Empire. The current Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy is Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov. List of Commanders Ministers of Sea Forces (1802–1815) Ministers of the Navy (1815–1917) On 17 December 1815 the Ministry of Sea Forces was renamed, becoming the Ministry of the Navy. Commander-in-Chief's Assistant for Naval Affairs (1921–1924) Commanders-in-Chief of the Naval Forces of the USSR (1924–1937) People's Commissars for the USSR Navy (1937–1939) Commanders-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy (1939–1991) Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of Independent States Navy (1991–1992) Commanders-in-Chief of the Russian Navy (1992–present) Notes References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, or fleet admiral. Etymology The word in Middle English comes from Anglo-French , "commander", from Medieval Latin , . These evolved from the Arabic () – (), “king, prince, chief, leader, nobleman, lord, a governor, commander, or person who rules over a number of people,” and (), the Arabic article answering to “the.” In Arabic, admiral is also represented as (), where () means the sea. The 1818 edition of Samuel Johnson's '' A Dictionary of the English Language'', edited and revised by the Rev. Henry John Todd, states that the term “has been traced to the Arab. emir or amir, lord or commander, and the Gr. , the sea, q. d. ''prince of the sea''. The word is written both with and without the d, in other languages, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasiliy Altfater
Vasili Mikhailovich Altfater () (16 December 1883 – April 20, 1919) was a Russian-Soviet naval officer, the first Commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy. Altfater was born in Warsaw the son of an artillery officer, General Mikhail Altfater who was from a noble Baltic German Family. Altfater graduated from Marine Cadet Corps (1902) and Naval Academy's Department of Hydrography (1908). During the Russo-Japanese War, Altfater participated in the defense of Port Arthur ( Lüshunkou) and rescue of the crew of the battleship ''Petropavlovsk''. Later on, Altfater served as the squadron navigating officer of the 1st destroyer division of the Baltic Fleet (1909–1910). During World War I, as Captain 2nd Rank Altfater was one of two liaison officers for the Imperial Russian Navy at the Tsar's Supreme Headquarters (the Stavka), where he had responsibility for advising on command appointments in the Baltic Fleet. He was later head of the Military Administration under the Commande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Frinovskiy
Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky (; 7 February 1898 – 4 February 1940) served as a deputy head of the NKVD in the years of the Great Purge and, along with Nikolai Yezhov, was responsible for setting in motion the Great Purge. Biography Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky was born in 1898 to a teacher in the village of Narovchat in the Penza Governorate of the Russian Empire. He was of Russian ethnicity. Prior to World War I, he studied in a religious Orthodox school. In January 1916, Frinovsky volunteered for the army. He served as a sergeant in the cavalry until his desertion in August the same year. He joined an anarchist group and took part in assassination of Major-General M. A Bem in 1917. In March 1917, Frinovsky began working as an accountant in Moscow. In September, he volunteered for the Red Guard. The unit under his command participated in storming of the Kremlin, during which Frinovsky was severely wounded. Between March and July 1918, Frinovsky again returned to civilian life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Smirnov
Pyotr Alexandrovich Smirnov (russian: Пётр Александрович Смирнов; 29 May 1897 – 23 February 1939) was a Soviet commissar, deputy minister of defence, and commander of the Soviet Navy. Biography Smirnov was born in a workers family in a village near Vyatka in 1897. He finished school and worked as a smith in a timber mill from 1913. He joined the Bolsheviks in March 1917 and was a member of the Red Guards. He fought in the Civil War ending as a brigade commander and a political officer of an army. In 1921 he took part in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion. In the 1920s he was a political commissar of the Volga and North Caucasus military districts. From 1926 he joined the political directorate of the armed forces and was political commissar of the Baltic Fleet and Military districts. In 1937 he was involved in the purge of military leaders including Yakov Gamarnik Yan Gamarnik (birth name Jakov Tzudikovich Gamarnik (russian: Я́ков Ц ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Viktorov
Mikhail Vladimirovich Viktorov (; December 24, 1893 – August 1, 1938) was a Russian military leader and Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces from August 1937 to January 1938. Career Born at Yaroslavl, Viktorov was the son of an officer and graduated from the Naval Academy with the gold medal as top cadet in 1913. During World War I he served with the Baltic Fleet and was navigating officer of the battleship ''Tsesarevich'' and fought in the Battle of Moon Sound. In the Civil War he joined the Bolsheviks and commanded the cruiser ''Oleg'' and subsequently the battleships ''Andrei Pervozvanny'' and ''Gangut''. In 1921 he contributed to the suppression of the ''Kronstadt'' rebellion. Between December 1924 and April 1926 he was named Chief of the Central Hydrographic Department of the USSR. From 1925 he commanded the Soviet Baltic Fleet and in 1932 was the founding commander of the Soviet Pacific Fleet.Order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Union of Sovie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Galler
Lev Mikhailovich Galler (Born Leo Julius Alexander Philipp von Haller; russian: Лев Михайлович Галлер; – 12 July 1950) was a Soviet military leader and admiral of Baltic German origin. Galler was born into a Baltic German family of a military engineer Philipp Michael Hugo von Haller (Galler) and joined the Baltic Fleet on completing the Naval school in 1905. During World War I he was squadron gunnery officer of the Battleship Division, executive officer of the ''Slava'' and commanded the destroyer ''Turkmenets Stavropolski''. After the October Revolution he joined the Bolsheviks and participated in the Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet. Subsequently, he commanded the destroyer ''Mecheslav'', the battleship ''Andrei Pervozvanny'' and was subsequently chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet during the British Campaign in the Baltic 1918–1919. After the Civil War, Galler was commander of the Baltic Fleet's battleship division and commanded the Baltic Fleet from 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Mitrofanovich Orlov
Vladimir Mitrofanovich Orlov (russian: Владимир Митрофанович Орлов) (July 15, 1895 – July 28, 1938) was a Russian military leader and Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces from July 1931 to July 1937. Life Orlov was born in Kherson and initially studied in the Legal faculty of St Petersburg University (although he did not complete his studies). He joined the Baltic Fleet in 1916 and served as a navigating officer on the cruiser ''Bogatyr''. In 1918 he joined the Russian Communist Party (b) and In 1919-20 he was a political officer of the Baltic Fleet and fought against the forces of the white General Nikolai Yudenich in the defence of Petrograd. In the 1920s he was commissar for Water Transport and in 1923 he became political commissar for all naval academies. Between 1926 and 1930 he commanded the Black Sea Fleet Chernomorskiy flot , image = Great emblem of the Black Sea fleet.svg , image_size ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romuald Muklevich
Romuald Adamovich Muklevich (, pl, Romuald Muklewicz, 25 November 1890 – 9 February 1938) was a Soviet Union, Soviet military figure and Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces from August 1926 to July 1931. Early life Muklevich was born in Supraśl in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (currently in Białystok County, Poland). He was a son of a textile worker of Poles in the former Soviet Union, Polish ethnicity. He joined the Bolsheviks, Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906 and became chairman of several local committees. Career Muklevich was drafted into Baltic Fleet as a sailor in 1912, and completed a marine engineering course (Kronstadt) in 1915 and was promoted to petty officer. In 1917 he participated in the February revolution, February and October revolution, October revolutions including the storming of the Winter Palace. In 1918-22 he was political commissar on the Western Front (RSFSR), Western Front. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vyacheslav Zof
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Zof (Russian: Вячеслав Иванович Зоф) (6 January 1890 – 20 June 1937) was a Soviet military figure and statesman of Czech descent. Biography Zof joined the revolutionary movement in 1910. Three years later he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). During World War I, Zof worked as a fitter at an arms factory in Sestroretsk, where he was in charge of the Bolshevist underground. After the February Revolution in 1917, Zof led the Bolsheviks' organization in Sestroretsk and was a deputy of the Petrograd Soviet. In July 1917, he prepared fake identity papers for Vladimir Lenin and organized his move from Petrograd to Razliv at the request of the RSDLP Central Committee. Zof would then establish contact between Lenin and the Central Committee. In 1918–1919, he was appointed brigade and division commissar and supplies manager for the 3rd Army of the Eastern Front. In 1919–1920, Zof was a member of the Revol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Pantserzhanskiy
Eduard Samuilovich Pantserzhanskiy (; – 26 September 1937) was a Russian military leader, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces from December 1921 to December 1924. Biography Pantserzhanskiy was born in Liepāja, Latvia the son of a Polish nobleman and studied at the Riga Technical University. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1910 and joined the Baltic Fleet. Pantserzhanskiy was an officer on the destroyer ''Grom'' and fought in the Battle of Moon Sound. During the Civil war he fought on riverine flotillas on Lake Onega and the Volga-Caspian front. Between 1921 and 1924 Pantserzhanskiy was a commander of the Soviet Navy. From 1924 he joined the general staff holding various commands. Pantserzhanskiy was denounced in 1937 by Boris Feldman and arrested in June. He was tried, sentenced to death and executed by a firing squad on 26 September 1937 at the Kommunarka shooting ground The Kommunarka firing range (russian: Расстрельный полигон ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Berens
Mikhail Andreyevich Berens (russian: Михаил Андреевич Беренс) (January 16, 1879 – January 20, 1943) was an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy and the White Navy during the Russian Civil War. Biography Mikhail Berens was born in Kutaisi, Georgia, and graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1898. He commanded the gunboat ''Gilyak'' in the Imperial Russian Navy where he distinguished himself during the suppression of Taku Forts during the Boxer Rebellion. He was promoted to captain in 1904 and stationed with the Russian Pacific Fleet at Port Arthur During the Russo-Japanese War, as a junior officer he served as navigator on the battleship ''Sevastopol'', and was captain of the destroyer ''Boyki'' after the Battle of the Yellow Sea. After the Russian defeat, Berens escaped with his ship to Tsingtao and was interned for the remainder of the war. In 1906 he joined the Baltic Fleet and was executive officer of the cruiser '' Diana'' and subsequently comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Alexandrovich Kedrov
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kedrov (russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Ке́дров) (13 September 1878 – 29 October 1945) was a Russian naval officer who served in the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War, World War I and the Russian Civil War. Early life Kedrov graduated from the Sea Cadet Corps in 1899 at the top of his class and served as a midshipman on the cruiser ''Gerzog Edinburgski''. Russo-Japanese War During the Russo-Japanese War Kedrov served as flag captain to Admiral Stepan Makarov. He was not on the battleship ''Petropavlovsk'' when that ship was sunk (with the loss of the admiral and his staff) as he was detached to the destroyer ''Boyevoy'' at the time. Subsequently, Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft appointed Kedrov as his flag captain. Kedrov was wounded aboard the battleship ''Tsesarevich'' during the battle of the Yellow Sea. After recovering in hospital in Tsingtao he made his way to Cam Ranh Bay in French Indochina, joining up wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
