Fyodor Alekseyevich Vidyayev (russian: Фёдор Алексеевич Видяев, 1912-1943) was a Soviet Navy submarine commander during

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. He was killed in action in 1943. Vidayev was born in

Samara Oblast Samara Oblast ( rus, Сама́рская о́бласть, r=Samarskaya oblast, p=sɐˈmarskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localitie ...

, he was an ethnic

Mordvin The Mordvins (also Unified Mordvin people, Mordvinians, Mordovians; russian: мордва, Mordva, Mordvins (no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya)) is an obsolete but official term used in the Russian Federation to refer both to Erzyas and Moks ...

. He finished high school in

Murmansk Murmansk (Russian: ''Мурманск'' lit. "Norwegian coast"; Finnish: ''Murmansk'', sometimes ''Muurmanski'', previously ''Muurmanni''; Norwegian: ''Norskekysten;'' Northern Sámi: ''Murmánska;'' Kildin Sámi: ''Мурман ланнҍ'') i ...

in 1930 and graduated with distinction from the M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School in 1937. He joined the

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submarine division and started as a junior navigator on the submarine ''D-2''. In 1938 he took part in the rescue of four researchers from a

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. He took part in the Soviet Finnish War of 1939–40 blockading

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. In 1941 he was second in command of the submarine serving under Nikolai Lunin. He was given command of this boat in 1942 when Lunin was given command of the new submarine . Vidayev carried out twelve war patrols. After the loss of ''ShCh-421'' (

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at sea after

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damage) he commanded the

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''ShCh-422''. His boat set out in July 1943 and never returned. The town of

Vidyayevo Vidyayevo (russian: Видя́ево) is a closed rural inhabited locality in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Despite having a rural status, it is municipally incorporated as Vidyayevo Urban Okrug, as such status is the only one allowed by the feder ...

was named after him as was a .

References

*''This article is sourced from the Russian Wikipedia'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Vidyayev, Fyodor 1912 births 1943 deaths People from Samara Oblast Mordvin people Soviet submarine commanders Soviet military personnel killed in World War II Officers of the Order of the British Empire Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner People who died at sea