Alexei Ivanovich Sorokin

Alexei Sorokin is a redirect to this article. For a politician with a similar name, see Aleksei Sorokin .

AI Sorokin, May 9, 2012

Alexei Ivanovich Sorokin ( Russian Алексе́й Ива́нович Соро́кин ; born March 28, 1922 in Kirillowka , Nizhny Novgorod Governorate , Russian SFSR ; † March 4, 2020 in Moscow ) was a Soviet or Russian naval admiral .

Life

Sorokin comes from a farming family. His father, Ivan Dmitrievich (1890–1933), was a builder and soldier in the First World War and the Russian Civil War . His mother, Alexandra Alexejewna (* 1893), worked in a collective farm during the period of collectivization and ran the housekeeping. Sorokin finished middle school in 1939 and then began training as a driver. Until December 1941 he worked as a driver of a fire engine .

Second World War

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War , Sorokin volunteered for the Red Army and was drafted into a preparation camp in September 1941, where he was appointed commander of a grenade launcher training department a little later . In 1943 he fought with the rank of sergeant as commander of a grenade launcher division of the 977th Rifle Regiment of the 270th Rifle Division on the Kalinin Front . When the Komsomol organizer (Komsorg, Russian комсорг) of the rifle battalion resigned from the troops, Sorokin took his place. For the successful completion of a demanding combat task , he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for the first time . Towards the end of 1943 he was assigned to the political department of the division and sent to Kalinin for training at the front for political officers . After completing his training, he became sub-lieutenant Sorokin Komsorg of the 361st Rifle Regiment of the 270th Rifle Division. During this time, as part of a reconnaissance unit , he made a decisive contribution to the liberation of the city of Demidow . The capture of a German soldier behind the front, who provided valuable information about the German positions, was made possible by a coup d'état by the scouts. For this action, Sorokin was again awarded the Order of the Red Star. In the further course of the war he took part in the liberation of Riga and Libau and fought after the end of the war until the end of May 1945 against German troops scattered in the woods.

post war period

First Lieutenant Sorokin was first used as an assistant to the chief of the political department of the 552nd anti-aircraft artillery brigade. After its dissolution he was sent to Baku as secretary of the Kosomol organization of the 1303rd anti-aircraft artillery regiment. There he completed correspondence courses in military and political politics, which, after the reorganization of the courses, he continued at the Lenin Military Political Academy in Moscow . A chance meeting at the academy with Colonel Anatonov, his former commander in the 270th Rifle Division, gave Sorokin a job as a political assistant in the Soviet naval fleet . Four years later he graduated from the academy as a corvette captain and became deputy commander and political officer of the destroyers Redki and Vdumchivy and the cruiser Kalinin in the Pacific Fleet . In 1954 Sorokin , who had meanwhile been promoted to frigate captain , was appointed deputy commander of the 174th destroyer brigade and, two years later, deputy to the chief of the political department of the naval base in Sovetskaya Gawan . Promoted to sea captain , he worked as chief of the political department of the 9th Submarine Division and the Strelok naval base . After 15 years of service in the Pacific Fleet, Sorokin was appointed Rear Admiral.

From February 1 to March 26, 1966, the Soviet Navy undertook the first submerged transoceanic voyage over 25,000 miles from the Kola Peninsula , through Drake Strait to Kamchatka, with the nuclear submarines K-116 and K-133 . For this unique achievement, Sorokin, under whose direction the trip was carried out, received the “Golden Star” medal.

Commanded to Moscow, he worked as head of the department for propaganda and agitation and deputy and first deputy to the head of the political administration of the Soviet Navy. In December 1973 Vice Admiral Sorokin became a member of the military council and chief of the political leadership of the Northern Fleet . Back in Moscow in January 1980, he took over the post of Chief of Political Administration of the Soviet Navy. From 1981 he was with the rank of Admiral 1st Deputy Head of the Political Headquarters of the Soviet Army and Navy. In 1989 he was appointed naval admiral and worked as an inspector in the group of inspectors general of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR . He was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the RSFSR . Towards the end of 1999 he was elected Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the Veterans Community Organization of the CIS .

Sorokin lived in Moscow. His son, Viktor Alexejewitsch (* 1948), graduated from the Moscow Energy Institute and the Military-Diplomatic Academy and is the sea captain of the reserve. His daughter, Olga Alexejewna (* 1953), studied at the Institute for History and Archives and is a candidate for the philosophical sciences.

Awards

• Order of Lenin
• Order of the October Revolution
• Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st class (2 ×)
• Order of the Great Patriotic War 2nd class
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of the Red Star (2 ×)
• Medal “For Service to the Fatherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR” 3rd class
• other medals from the USSR, Russia and other countries

Web links

Commons : Alexei Sorokin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography from the International United Biographical Center (Международный Объединенный Биографический Центр) (Russian), accessed June 16, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Адмирал флота Алексей Сорокин умер на 97-м году жизни
2. ^ Under the waterline of the earth ( Memento from April 27, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) Krasnaya Zvezda from March 19, 2002 (Russian), accessed on June 17, 2011