Yakov Dmitrievich Pasmurov

Commander of the Danube Flotilla (1945)

Jakow Dmitrijewitsch Pasmurow ( Russian Яков Дмитриевич Пасмуров , also Pasmurov ; born March 23, 1913 in Maikop , Krasnodar , † 1997 in Bulgaria ) was a major and commander of the Soviet Danube Flotilla during the Second World War.

Life

Jakow Dmitrijewitsch Pasmurow was born in 1913 to Russian parents in the village of Maikop in the Krasnodar region. His parents were originally from Chuvashia . He had two brothers, the younger of whom died in World War II.

youth

Pasmurow went to a factory school in Rostov-on-Don and later worked as an order picker for the Russian agricultural machinery manufacturer Rostselmasch . In 1933 he joined the army and attended a coastal defense school in Sevastopol (Crimea). In 1937 he graduated from the university with awards.

Second World War

The outbreak of World War II hit Pasmurov and his troops hard, and they were pushed back from Sevastopol to the Caucasus . In August 1942, the NOR (Novorossiysk Defense Region) was formed in the Caucasus, where the 47th Army joined forces with the Azov Flotilla , the Novorossiysk Naval Base and other Red Army formations and units. A few weeks later, Pasmurov became assistant to the chief of staff for artillery reconnaissance at the NOR coastal artillery headquarters. In 1944 the Azov flotilla was disbanded and the Danube flotilla was founded in its base , with which he later fought numerous battles against the Wehrmacht.

Life after World War II

Pasmurov worked as a lecturer in a school for strategic missile forces in Riga. He was awarded the Badge of Honor in 1961 for his leadership in the faculty, the successful training of highly qualified civil servants, and the further development of military science . He then worked for 14 years in the Latvian National Library , where he was responsible for the certification of products from Latvian companies and for awarding quality seals. From 1961 to 1981 he was elected deputy of the Riga Council by the Congress of People's Deputies . At the same time he was training young people in a veterans' school in military patriotism. In 1995, shortly after the collapse of the USSR, he moved to Tryavna , where his wife's daughter, Eugenia Pasmurovo, had lived for several years.

death

Jakow Dmitrijewitsch Pasmurow died in Bulgaria in 1997 and was buried next to his wife. The exact time and place of death are unknown.

Others

Jakow Dmitrijewitsch Pasmurow was made an honorary citizen of the Slovak capital Bratislava .

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