Lev Anatolevich Vladimirsky (

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: Лев Анатольевич Владимирский; 27 September 1903, Guryev – 7 September 1973, Moscow), was a Soviet naval officer and an Admiral (1954). He joined the Red Army as a volunteer during the

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and fought against Islamic insurgents in

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, later volunteering for service in the navy from 1921. Vladimirsky graduated from the Naval Command School (1925) and studied at the special courses for commanding officers (1927), and the Military Academy of General Staff (1952). Vladimirsky served aboard the Black and Azov seas ships as a navigator, watch chief, artilleryman, and senior deputy commander of a destroyer. From 1932, he commanded a

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, destroyer, destroyer leader, and from 1937, serving as chief of staff of the brigade of cruisers, and operations officer of a cruiser brigade. Early in 1938, he served on the French transport ''Bonifacio'' to supply arms and ammunition to the Spanish communists in the last stages of the

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, and later in 1938 Vladimirsky headed a detachment of hydrographic vessels, which accomplished a passage from the

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to the

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. After being the officer accepting delivery of the first Tashkent class destroyer, from June 1939, Vladimirsky was commanding a squadron of the Black Sea Fleet, which from the beginning of the

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participated in the fighting during the defense of

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and

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. In September 1941, he led an amphibious landing in the Grigorevki region. From May 1943, Vladimirsky commanded the Black Sea Fleet, leading naval forces in the Novorossiysk (1943) and Kerch-Eltigen (1943) landing operations. In May 1944, Vladimirsky was appointed squadron commander in the Baltic Fleet. He assumed command during participation in the Vyborg operation of 1944. In 1947, Vladimirsky was appointed Admiral-Inspector of the Main Inspection of Armed Forces and later served as the Chief for the administration for naval educational institutions, Deputy Chief Inspector of Armed Forces for Military Naval Forces (VMF). From 1952, he was Chief for the Chief Directorate of Navy Military Training, and from April 1953, Chief for the administration of combat training VMF, becoming the Deputy Glavkom VMF on shipbuilding in March 1955. Between 1956 and 1959, Vladimirsky is the Chairman of the naval scientific and technical committee. From 1959, Vladimirsky predominantly worked in scientific and pedagogical roles, notably as Deputy Chief of the Naval Academy (1962–67), and the professor-consultant of the academy (1967–70). Starting on 15 October 1968, he headed several complex Soviet oceanographic expeditions; in 1968 - round-the-world expedition on the oceanographic vessel ''Polus'' (Pole). Vladimirsky retired in 1970.

Honours and awards

* Two

Orders of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration b ...

Order of Red Banner The Order of the Red Banner (russian: Орден Красного Знамени, Orden Krasnogo Znameni) was the first Soviet military decoration. The Order was established on 16 September 1918, during the Russian Civil War by decree of th ...

, three times *

Order of Suvorov The Order of Suvorov () is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named in honor of Russian Generalissimo Prince Alexander Suvorov (1729–1800). History The Order of Suvorov was originally a Soviet award established on July 29, 19 ...

, 2nd class *

Order of Ushakov The Order of Ushakov (russian: орден Ушакова) is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named in honour of admiral Fyodor Ushakov (1744–1817) who never lost a battle and was proclaimed patron saint of the Russian Navy. ...

, 2nd class *

Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" The Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" (russian: Юбилейная медаль «XX лет Рабоче-Крестьянской Красной Армии») was a state military commemorative medal of the Soviet Un ...

Medal "For the Defence of Odessa" The Medal "For the Defence of Odessa" (russian: Медаль «За оборону Одессы»; ) was a World War II campaign medal of the Soviet Union established on December 22, 1942 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of th ...

* Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol" *

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" The Medal "For the Victory Over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (russian: Медаль «За победу над Германией в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.») was a military de ...

* Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" *

Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy" The Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy" (russian: Юбилейная медаль «30 лет Советской Армии и Флота») was a state military commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established on February 22 ...

Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" The Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (russian: Юбилейная медаль «40 лет Вооружённых Сил СССР») was a state military commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established on December 18, ...

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" The Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (russian: Юбилейная медаль «50 лет Вооружённых Сил СССР») was a state military commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established on December 26, 1 ...

* Medal of Sino-Soviet Friendship

Citations and notes

References

* Zonin, Sergey Aleksandrovich, Faithful to the ocean: About L.A., Vladimirsky, Politizdat, Moscow, 1986 (Зонин, Сергей Александрович, Верность океану: О Л. А. Владимирском, Политиздат, 1986

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