Georgi Mikhailovich Yegorov

Georgi Michailowitsch Jegorow ( Russian Гео́ргий Миха́йлович Его́ров ; born October 30, 1918 in the village of Mestonowo, Petrograd Oblast ; † February 9, 2008 in Moscow ) was a Soviet naval admiral , chief of staff and first deputy of the Soviet naval command .

Life

Jegorow comes from a peasant family and completed two training courses as a precision mechanic and optician in Leningrad in 1936 . In the same year he entered the Soviet Navy and became an officer student at the Leningrad Officers' College MW Frunze , from which he graduated in 1940 with the rank of lieutenant . He was then used in the Baltic Fleet as a combat section commander for navigation (GA – 1) on the submarine Shch – 310 .

Second World War

First Lieutenant Jegorow experienced the beginning of the Great Patriotic War on the Tallinn roadstead after the return of the submarine Shch – 310 from its last peace voyage , which lasted from June 12 to 22, 1941. The submarine carried out two combat voyages. In October 1942 it ran into a sea ​​mine while heading to Kronstadt and sank to the 60 meter deep bottom. The crew managed to restore seaworthiness, and Yegorov safely navigated the submarine to its home port. Towards the end of 1942 he became first officer of the submarine and in February 1943 its commander. After completing courses in submarine management, he was given command of the submarine of the Baltic Fleet M-90 on December 5, 1944 . He ran in this position on December 20, 1944 for the first of a total of three subsequent patrols.

post war period

After the end of the war, Yegorov was in command of the following submarines in the Baltic fleet:

• M-90
• from December 1946 of the German booty submarine S – 20
• from February 1947 N – 26 (ex U 1231 ), later renamed to B – 26
• from February 1950 S – 111
• from December 1950 B – 12

From January 1953 he was commander of the 92nd submarine brigade of the 16th submarine division of the Baltic Fleet and from September 1953 commander of the 171st submarine brigade of the Pacific Fleet . From November 1954 to December 1956 he was Chief of Staff of the 40th Submarine Division of the Pacific Fleet. In 1959 he graduated from the Naval War Academy and was used from October 1959 as commander of the 8th submarine division of the Pacific Fleet. Egorov , promoted to Rear Admiral on May 7, 1961 , became commander of the 12th Squadron of the Pacific Fleet from August 1961 . Under his leadership, disaster-free underwater launches of ballistic missiles were carried out for the first time in the history of the USSR . From April 1963 he was Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander of the Northern Fleet . After his promotion to Vice Admiral on June 16, 1965, Yegorov worked from January 1967 as First Deputy Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy. The appointment as admiral on May 20, 1971 was followed by the transfer of command of the Northern Fleet in May 1972. In this position he was appointed Fleet Admiral on November 5, 1973. In July 1977 he took over command of the main staff and became First Deputy Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy. By resolution (No. 11304) of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 27, 1978, Egorov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin .

Political activities

From November 1981 to November 1988 Yegorov was chairman of the DOSAAF , a paramilitary Soviet mass organization to strengthen defense readiness. He had been a member of the CPSU since 1942 , from 1976 to 1981 and from 1988 to 1991 a candidate of the Central Committee of the CPSU . From 1974 to 1989 he sat as a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and from 1986 to 1989 as a member of its presidium. From November 1988 he worked as a military advisor in the group of inspectors general of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. In 1992 he was retired. He was a member of the office of the Russian Committee for War Veterans and Military Service and Honorary President of the Russian Submarine Club.

Egorov lived in Moscow and was buried in the Trojekurowo cemetery after his death .

Awards

• Hero of the Soviet Union (October 27, 1978)
• Order of Lenin (1963 and 1978)
• Order of the Red Banner (1942, 1953 and 1968)
• Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st class (2 × 1945 and 1 × 1985)
• Order of the Red Star (1951)
• Order "For Service to the Fatherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd class (1988)
• Order of the October Revolution (1974)
• other medals from the USSR and orders from other countries

literature

• Georgi Egorov : Фарватерами флотской службы . Военное издательство, Moscow 1985, p. 240 .

Web links

• Heroes of the Land (Russian), accessed November 6, 2011
• Homepage dedicated to Egorov (Russian), accessed on November 6, 2011
• Yegorov's memoirs (Russian), accessed November 8, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heroes of the Country , (Russian), accessed November 6, 2011