Yuri Alexandrovich Panteleev

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Yuriy Aleksandrovich Panteleyev ( Russian Юрий Александрович Пантелеев * 18 . Jul / 31 October  1901 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 5. May 1983 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet sailor, Admiral (since 1953), professor at the Seekriegsakademie in Sankt Petersburg (since 1962), member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1954-58) and member of the CPSU since 1940. He served in the Soviet fleet from 1918 and took part in the Russian Civil War and World War II .

Life

Panteleev's father, Alexander Petrovich Panteleev, was an actor. He was later commissioned by Anatoly Wassiljewitsch Lunacharsky to direct the first Soviet films. He works for the Lenfilm studio . The best known is his film The Miracle Worker , which was shown to Lenin at the bedside of Lenin in Gorky. He was later named a hero of socialist labor . Yuri Alexandrovich's mother was called Anna Alexejewna . He had a brother.

As a child, Panteleev went on fishing boats, later he began to sail. He attended high school and volunteered in the Navy in March 1918 and began a two-year navigation course. In November 1918 he became the commandant of a small naval training unit, which taught the first nautical skills, and helped to secure the mouth of the Neva . In 1919 he joined the Komsomol .

In March 1921, Yuri Alexandrovich Panteleev took part in the suppression of the Kronstadt sailors' uprising. He commanded a group of about 100 skiing scouts and detectors. For his service in Kronstadt he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner .

In the summer of 1921 Panteleev became 2nd officer on the schooner Lauriston . The Lauriston was one of the first merchant ships under the Soviet flag to sail to Tallinn with a load of railroad tracks.

In May 1922 he was appointed subordinate of the liner Marat ( Russian Марат ). In the spring of 1923 he attended a special course for naval officers.

On July 12, 1923, he set out from Saint Petersburg as a sub-helmsman on the Vorovsky to transfer the ship to Vladivostok. It was the first such long voyage by a Soviet ship. The journey went through Plymouth, Naples, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, where Panteleev met Sun Yat-sen and his wife Sun Tsin-lin . Overall, the crew stayed in China for a month.

After the trip, Yuri Alexandrovich Panteleev continued his special course, which he completed in the spring of 1925. He was then transferred to the Black Sea Fleet and, at his own request, became the helmsman of the Morzh-class submarine Politruk from February to July 1925 . He quickly rose to become the brigade commander of the 1st U-Boat Brigade. When new ranks were introduced in the Soviet Navy in 1925, Panteleev became a frigate captain. Soon after, he was appointed commander of the 2nd Submarine Brigade.

In April 1926 Panteleev left the submarine command and became a navigation officer of the Chervona Ukraine , a post he held until December 1928. When the King of Afghanistan Amanullah Khan visited the USSR in the spring of 1928 , Panteleev was the liaison officer to his wife Soraya Tarzi Hanim. He also accompanied the ruling couple with the Tscherwona Ukraina to Istanbul.

In December 1928, Yuri Alexandrovich Panteleev was assigned to the naval headquarters. In October 1930 he joined the Naval Academy in Moscow, where he graduated with honors in April 1933.

After graduating he was employed in the Baltic Fleet as an officer z. b. V. assigned. As chief of staff, he organized the relocation of a fleet from the Baltic Sea to the Barents Sea through the new White Sea-Baltic Canal . From this association, the Northern Flotilla, later the Northern Fleet , was founded together with another . From September 25, 1933 to March 21, 1934, Panteleev was chief of staff of the new Northern Flotilla. His work mainly consisted of choosing locations for coastal batteries and bases on the uninhabited islands of the North Sea.

From April 1935 to November 1936, Panteleev was then in command of the 1st U-Boat Brigade in the Black Sea and from November 1936 to August 1938, he was in command of the 2nd U-Boat Brigade. In the summer of 1938 he was transferred to the People's Commissariat for Military and Maritime Affairs . There he chairs the state acceptance commission, which took delivery of new submarines for the Navy. In October 1939 he was appointed captain of the first rank and chief of staff of the Baltic Red Banner Fleet , which he held until 1941.

Second World War

At the beginning of World War II, Panteleev was Chief of Staff of the Baltic Fleet and had just been promoted to Rear Admiral. He was able to attend first combat missions in the winter war against Finland, when Soviet ships shelled coastal positions or submarines cut off supplies. In the particularly cold winter, with temperatures as low as −40 ° C in 1939/40, the Gulf of Finland froze over completely, which made it impossible to use the fleet. The marines were therefore equipped with skis and sleds.

From spring to July 1941 Panteleev was in charge of securing Irbenstrasse . Through the use of ships, naval aviators and water mines, he was able to successfully attack a number of German convoys .

On 27./28. August 1941 Panteleev took part in the Soviet evacuation of Tallinn . During the operation, he commanded the Leningrad-class destroyer Minsk .

He then directed the evacuation of Koivisto, where he was able to bring around 27,000 soldiers (two rifle divisions) and around 1,000 civilians to Kronstadt. He was then tasked with securing Lake Ladoga , which was used to transport food to Leningrad.

On October 4, 1941, Rear Admiral Yuri Alexandrowitsch Panteleev was transferred to the first line of the newly established Leningrad naval base. He held this post until April 1942 when he became Deputy Chief of the Naval War Fleet in Moscow. An office that he held until May 1943. At the same time he edits the magazine Morskoi sbornik .

On May 6, 1943 Panteleev became commander of the Volga flotilla at the suggestion of Naval Admiral Nikolai Gerasimowitsch Kuznetsov . He was responsible for the vast area from Astrakhan to Kuibyshev . The German Wehrmacht had heavily mined the Volga . However, the river was indispensable as a transport route for fuel. Despite the many water mines that the Wehrmacht spent with airplanes and constant air raids, especially by Junkers Ju 88 , Panteleev successfully solved the task.

From December 1943 to July 1944 Panteleev worked again as deputy chief of the main staff of the naval fleet in Moscow. On January 29, 1944, two days after the end of the siege of Leningrad, he was appointed Vice Admiral .

In July 1944, he was transferred to Arkhangelsk and appointed commander of the White Sea Flotilla. Through the Lend-Lease Act ( Lend-Lease Act ), the Soviet Union was on the Arctic Ocean ports Murmansk supplies and Arkhangelsk extensively with war supplies and food from the United States. The White Sea was also extremely important for the intra-Soviet transport of war goods.

In the transport period of 1944 alone, 300 convoys, 615 transporters, including 142 Allied freighters, passed Panteleev's area of ​​responsibility, which was huge and covered 4000 km of coastline.

The Germans regularly attacked the transports in the White Sea with planes, mines and submarines. There was a secret German submarine base on Alexandraland on the Cambridge Canal , which the Soviets did not discover until the end of the war.

In November 1944, Yuri Alexandrowitsch Panteleev was awarded the Order of the Bath for the services of the White Sea Flotilla in sinking the Tirpitz .

Cold War

In July 1946 he was reassigned to the main staff of the naval fleet in Moscow. In April Panteleev began to direct the Naval War Academy for commanders "KJ Voroshilov" . In August 1951 he was appointed Commander of the Pacific Fleet . At the time, this was the largest fleet in the Soviet Union, responsible for the entire Pacific and Indian Oceans. On August 3, 1953, Yuri Alexandrovich Panteleev was appointed admiral .

In 1954 Panteleev was elected a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR . He held this office until 1958.

In January 1956 he was relieved of his position as commander of the Pacific Fleet and head of the Naval War Academy for Shipbuilding and Armament "AN Krylov" in Leningrad. In 1962 he received a professorship . When the two Russian naval war academies were merged in 1967, he became a professor and advisor at the new academy.

In March 1968, Panteleev retired. He died on May 5, 1983 in Leningrad and was buried in the Seraphim Cemetery.

Honors

Russian destroyer Admiral Panteleev (BPK 548)

Yuri Alexandrowitsch Panteleev was awarded several high-ranking orders in his life, in addition to many medals:

He was a Russian honor destroyer of Udaloy class (BPK 548) Admiral Panteleyev called. The ship entered service in 1990 and is part of the Pacific Fleet. It was moved off the Somali coast in 2009 to combat piracy there.

Works

In addition to numerous scientific papers on tactics of naval warfare, Panteleyew has published three books:

  • Морской фронт (1965), German: Die Seefront
  • Полвека на флоте (1974), German: My life for the fleet
  • Парус-моя жизнь (1982), German: Sailing my life

literature

  • Yuri Alexandrowitsch Panteleev: My life for the fleet . Progess Verlag, Moscow 1982 (Russian: Полвека на флоте . Translated by L. Gurwitsch).

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personal data
SURNAME Panteleev, Yuri Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пантелеев, Юрий Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet admiral
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH May 5th 1983
Place of death Leningrad