Yevgeny Alekseyevich Barilovich (russian: Евгений Алексеевич Барилович; 30 October 1932 – 5 March 2020) was an officer of the Soviet Navy. Part of the submarine branch, he rose to command his own vessels, reaching the rank of

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. In 1979 he was awarded the title of

Hero of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

Career

Barilovich was born on 30 October 1932 in

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, then part of the

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, in the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. He took ten classes of schooling, and after graduating from the Saratov Naval Preparatory School in 1951, entered the Soviet Navy. Barilovich graduated from the in 1955 and was sent to serve aboard submarines in the

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. He took the , graduating in 1965, and from 1966 was in command of his own submarines, specialising in testing new equipment and weapons systems. Barilovich's service was rewarded on 10 January 1979 by a decree of the

Presidium of the Supreme Soviet The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (russian: Президиум Верховного Совета, Prezidium Verkhovnogo Soveta) was a body of state power in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).Hero of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

, with the concurrent award of the

Order 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 ...

and gold star. The award, for "courage and heroism in the performance of military duty", was number 11425. He also received the

Order of the 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 ...

during his time in service. Barilovich retired at the rank of

in 1985 and settled in Moscow, where he worked as head of the production preparation bureau of the . He died on 5 March 2020, with his death was reported on 11 March 2020 in ''

Krasnaya Zvezda ''Krasnaya Zvezda'' (russian: Кра́сная звезда́, literally "Red Star") is the official newspaper of the Soviet and later Russian Ministry of Defence. Today its official designation is "Central Organ of the Russian Ministry of Defen ...

'', the news outlet of the

Russian Ministry of Defence The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (russian: Министерство обороны Российской Федерации, Минобороны России, informally abbreviated as МО, МО РФ or Minoboron) is the govern ...

. He was buried in the

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References

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