Ivan Stepanowitsch Yumashev

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Ivan Yumashev

Ivan Stepanowitsch Jumaschew ( Russian Иван Степанович Юмашев ; * September 27th July / October 9th  1895 greg. In Tbilisi ; †  September 2, 1972 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet admiral and 1950/51 Minister of Sea War . He commanded the Black Sea Fleet (1938) and the Pacific Fleet (1939–1947).

Life

Yumashev, son of a railway employee, graduated from secondary school in 1912. He served in the Baltic fleet as a stoker, machinist, and later as a non-commissioned officer and assistant to the commander of a coastal artillery battery. In 1917, after the events of the October Revolution , he was elected chairman of the battery's sailors' committee. In February 1919 he voluntarily joined the naval fleet and was an artillery commander on ships of the Astrakhan-Caspian Flotilla and the Volga-Caspian Flotilla in the Russian Civil War (1918-1920). After the end of the war he served in the Baltic fleet as commander of the artillery and from May 1921 as second officer on the battleship Petropavlovsk (from March 1921 Marat ).

In 1925 Jumaschew completed special courses for the management personnel of the fleet. From February of the same year he served as a navigational officer on the destroyer Lenin and from November as first officer on the destroyer Zinoviev . In June 1926 he became first officer of the cruiser Profintern . From February 1927 he served in the Black Sea Fleet as commander of the destroyer Dzerzhinsky . After Jumashev had successfully completed tactical courses for ship commanders at the Voroshilov Naval War Academy, he commanded the cruiser Profintern from November 1932 , from 1934 a destroyer division and from 1935 a destroyer brigade. In September 1937 he became chief of staff of the Black Sea Fleet, took over the duties from December and from January 1938 the post of fleet commander.

In March 1939 he was used as commander of the Pacific Fleet . He made a major contribution to the development of the fleet and coastal defense in the Far East, as well as to the development of fleet bases and airfields. He was responsible for the training of ships and units of the marine infantry and their preparation for the Soviet fronts of the Second World War . On June 4, 1940 he was promoted to Vice Admiral and on May 31, 1943 to Admiral.

Under his leadership, the Pacific Fleet successfully supported the fighting on the 1st and 2nd Far Eastern Fronts, the destruction of the Kwantung Army and the occupation of North Korea , South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands . For these achievements, Admiral Yumaschew was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on September 14, 1945 by order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and was awarded the Order of Lenin . In January 1947 he was promoted to Deputy Defense Minister and Commander in Chief of the Naval Forces and in February 1950 to Minister of Naval Warfare. At the same time he became a member of the Office for Military-Industrial and Military Issues at the Council of Ministers of the USSR . By special decree of the Council of Ministers of July 20, 1951, he was released from his ministerial post because of major deficiencies and inaction. From August 1951 until his retirement in January 1957 he was head of the Naval War Academy.

Yumashev was a candidate for the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1941 to 1956 and a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1946 to 1950 . He lived in Leningrad until his death and was buried there in the Serafimov cemetery.

Awards

Cruiser Admiral Jumashev 1982

Honors

Works

  • IS Yumashev: Тихоокеанский флот в боях за Родину . In: Морской сборник . No. 8 . Moscow 1965.

literature

  • Герои Советского Союза: Краткий биографический словарь . tape 2 . Воениздат, Moscow 1988.
  • Королёв В. Т .: Герои великого океана . Vladivostok 1972.
  • Цкитишвили К. В., Чинчилакашвили Т. Г .: Герои великого океана . Tbilisi 1981.

Web links

  • Biography of Admiral Yumashev (Russian), accessed November 19, 2012
  • Biography on hrono.ru (Russian), accessed November 20, 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heroes of the Country (Russian), accessed November 19, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Yumashev, Ivan Stepanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Юмашев, Иван Степанович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet Minister of Naval Warfare (1950–1951) and admiral
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1972
Place of death Leningrad