Grigoriy Pavlovich Chukhnin (russian: Григорий Павлович Чухнин; 1848 – 28 June 1906) was an officer of the
Imperial Russian Navy
The Imperial Russian Navy () operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917. It developed from a ...
during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1904, when he was director of the
Kuznetsov Naval Academy
The N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy (russian: Военно-морская академия имени Н. Г. Кузнецова) is the main staff college and postgraduate institution for the Russian Navy and is located in Saint Petersburg.
In ...
, he was nearly offered command of the
Second Pacific Squadron before the command was ultimately given to Admiral
Rozhestvensky. Rozhestvensky later requested his replacement by Chukhnin during the Pacific voyage, but was denied. In late 1904, Chukhnin was appointed to command of the
Black Sea Fleet
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. He commanded the
Black Sea Fleet
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in 1905 during the mutiny on the
battleship ''Potemkin''. "Chukhnin had dealt cruelly with the sailors of the Red Battleship
he Potemkin four were shot, two hanged, several dozen were sent to hard labor
..but he failed to instill terror in anyone, and succeeded only in intensifying the mutinous feelings within the navy." In November 1905 he helped crush the
Black Sea Fleet uprising. He was assassinated in July 1906, after an earlier attempt in February 1906 failed.
[Melvin, Pages 334-335]
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Imperial Russian Navy admirals
1906 deaths
Russian military personnel of the Russo-Japanese War
1848 births
Military personnel from Mykolaiv
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class
Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
Assassinated military personnel
Russian untitled nobility
Assassinations in Russia
Potemkin mutiny