Georgi Fyodorowitsch Stepanov

Georgi Fjodorowitsch Stepanow ( Russian Георгий Федорович Степанов ; * 1917 , † 1987 ) was a Soviet vice admiral . From October 1970 to June 1974 he was in command of the Caspian Red Banner Officers College of the Naval Forces SM Kirov of the Soviet naval fleet in Baku .

Life

Stepanov, who had five siblings, began vocational training after graduating from middle school. In 1940 he graduated from the Frunze Naval War College in Leningrad as a navigational officer and then served in Tallinn . At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War , he was transferred to Ladoga to defend the Road of Life . In 1943 he completed staff officer courses and then served in the Baltic fleet .

During his military career he made two trips to Great Britain . In 1953 he attended a parade on the occasion of the coronation celebrations for Elizabeth II as first officer under Captain OI Rydakow on the cruiser Sverdlov . In April 1956, as commander of the cruiser Ordzhonikidze , he accompanied an official party and government delegation of the Soviet Union under the direction of the 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU N. S. Khrushchev and the Prime Minister of the USSR NA Bulganin to Portsmouth . The first-rate delegation also included the aircraft designer Tupolev and the nuclear physicist Kurchatov . An incident occurred on April 19 when the English combat swimmer Lionel Crabb disappeared without a trace. For weeks the world press made headlines that Crabb was acting on behalf of MI5 and examining the underwater hull of the most modern Soviet cruisers to provide data on tonnage and maneuverability. The Deputy Naval Attaché at the London Russian Embassy announced that a guard on board the Ordzhonikidze near the cruiser saw a "frogman" who came to the surface for a few seconds and then disappeared again. The opposite destroyer reported to Stepanov that “something” was under the stern of the Ordzhonikidze . He ordered the multi-ton screw to be set in motion. Fifteen months later, a headless body in an English-made wetsuit was washed up on the banks of Portsmouth and identified as the missing person's by a friend of Crabbs.

From 1963 to 1965 Stepanov commanded the 150th Missile Ship Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet . After graduating from the General Staff Academy , he was assigned to the Pacific Fleet at the military base on Russky Island , south of Vladivostok . After three months he moved to Sevastopol and became deputy commander of the Black Sea Naval War School PS Nakhimov . After serving in Indonesia , Stepanov , who has meanwhile been appointed Rear Admiral , commanded the Caspian Higher Naval War School in Baku from 1970 to 1974. From 1974 he found a job in Leningrad as the deputy chief of higher special courses for officers of the naval war fleet. After his retirement he was active in the Veterans Council of the Ladoga Flotilla. Stepanov died of a heart attack during a party meeting in 1987.

Private

Stepanov was married to Nina Abrossimovna Stepanova. His two sons Alexander and Sergej also joined the Soviet naval forces and served in the Black Sea Fleet and the Northern Fleet . The third son Nikolaj graduated from a civil college.

literature

• А. П. Курочкин: Апшеронский меридиан: Докум. повесть . Азернешр, Baku 1989, p. 178 .

Web links

• Galina Sergejewna Selkina: Headmaster of the KWWMKU. May 22, 2010, accessed March 31, 2014 (Russian). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Crabb on the torso . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21/1956 ( online [accessed November 24, 2013]).
2. ^ "Frogman" Crabb. Dark aftermath of the Soviet visit to England . In: The time . May 10, 1956 ( online [accessed November 24, 2013]).
3. ↑ Сергей Анатольевич Дмитриев-Арбатский: Новые записки старого дворника . In: Kasnaja Zvezda . January 28, 2009 (Russian, online [accessed November 24, 2013]).
4. ↑ Secret spy diver report revealed. June 12, 2006, accessed November 24, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Selkina, headmaster of the KWWMKU

predecessor	Office	successor
KAdm Georgi Timchenko	11. Commander of the KWWMKU 1970–1974	KAdm Yevgeny Glebov