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Nikolai Martynyuk
Nikolai Ilyich Martynyuk (russian: Николай Ильич Мартынюк; 22 April 1934 – 10 April 2021) was an officer of the Soviet Navy. He rose to command his own vessels, reaching the rank of vice admiral in 1985, and serving as First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Pacific Fleet (Russia), Pacific Fleet between 1984 and 1991. Naval career Martynyuk was born into a peasant family on 22 April 1934 in the village of , , in Primorsky Krai, then part of the Russian Soviet Socialist Federative Republic, in the Soviet Union. He attended the Pacific Higher Naval School, graduating with honours in 1956. Between 1956 and 1966 he served on various surface ships of the Kamchatka Flotilla, rising through the ranks from commander of the ship's control group, and weapons commander on the ''SKR-55'' of the 86th separate battalion of patrol ships, to commanding two minesweepers, including the ''BTShch-91'' and the Skoryy-class destroyer, Project 30bis destroyer Soviet destroyer Bezboyaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District. The city of Vladivostok is the administrative center of the krai, and the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Khabarovsk. The krai has the largest economy among the federal subjects in the Russian Far East, and a population of 1,956,497 as of the 2010 Census. The krai shares Russia's only border with North Korea, along the Tumen River in Khasansky District in the southwestern corner of the krai. Peter the Great Gulf, the largest gulf in the Sea of Japan, is located along the south coast. Historically part of Manchuria, Primorsky Krai was ceded to the Russian Empire by Qing China in 1860 as part of a region known as Outer Manchuria, forming most of the territory of Primorskaya Oblast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
