Albert Wassiljewitsch Akatow

Albert Vasilyevich Akatow ( Russian Альберт Васильевич Акатов * 15. May 1930 in Achinsk , Krasnoyarsk , † 3. December 2016 in Riga ) was a Soviet Rear Admiral a. D. From 1985 to 1987 he was the 14th commander of the Caspian Higher Officers School of the Soviet Naval Fleet in Baku .

Life

Akatow moved briefly to Riga with his family in 1941 . On June 27, 1941, they fled the fascist German troops in one of the last military trains across the border to Ivanovo . His father was immediately commanded to the front and fell in 1942. Akatov was forced to take responsibility for grandmother, mother and his two sisters at an early age. He entered a cavalry school , graduated with honors and became a cavalry instructor for young people intended for immediate use at the front. After the liberation of Riga in October 1944, the family returned to the city and his mother worked in the Latvian Ministry of Education. Akatov, who went to school for seven years, was accepted into the seventh grade of the Riga Nakhimov Naval War School. After graduating, he entered the 1st Baltic Higher Naval War School in Leningrad in 1953 and trained as a mine / torpedo specialist . After completing his training, Akaktow became the commander of the Mine / Torpedo (GA-3) combat section on the S-141 submarine of Project 613 and, after six years, the commander of this submarine.

In 1956, Akatow completed command training courses in Leningrad and subsequently became chief officer on the submarine S-155 . For a period of five years in 1959 he was employed as a submarine commander on S-155 and S-192 of Project 613 in the Uriza base . He then became the commander of the diesel-electric submarine B-25 ( Project 641 ) and drove combat missions in the Atlantic and Mediterranean for the reconnaissance and pursuit of combat ships of the 6th Fleet of the US Navy .

In 1968 he attended the Naval War Academy , was promoted to sea captain and served for a year and a half as chief of staff of a submarine brigade of Project 613 in the Liinachamari Northern Fleet Base . For the next seven years he served as the commander of a Project 641 submarine brigade and the commander of an operational unit in the Mediterranean. In 1972 and 1974 he was head of the Soviet naval base in Alexandria . In 1977 he was appointed rear admiral.

From November 1985 to July 1987 he headed the Caspian Higher Naval War School in Baku. He has lived in Riga since his retirement. In 2002 the International Association of Regional Organizations of Veterans of the Submarine Fleet was founded in Saint Petersburg. Akatow represented in her the Society of Submariners Veterans of Latvia and was a member of the council.

Awards

• Order of the Red Banner (1968)
• Order "For Service to the Fatherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd class (1975)
• Order of the Red Star (1980)
• more medals

Publications

AW Akatow: Судьба офицера подводника . Ed .: Общество ветеранов-подводников Латвии. 2007.

literature

• Клубков Ю. М .: Двенадцать книг. О времени и наших судьбах. 1997, accessed March 14, 2014 (Russian). 

Web links

• Galina Sergejewna Selkina: Headmaster of the KWWMKU. May 21, 2010, accessed March 31, 2014 (Russian). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ПАМЯТИ КОНТР-АДМИРАЛА АЛЬБЕРТА ВАСИЛЬЕВИЧА АКАТОВ. December 7, 2016, Retrieved March 16, 2017 (Russian). 
2. ↑ Клубков Ю. М .: Двенадцать книг. О времени и наших судьбах

predecessor	Office	successor
KAdm Vasily Archipov	14. Commander of the KWWMKU 1985–1987	KAdm Leonid Zhdanov