Semyon Mikhailovich Lobov

Semyon Mikhailovich Lobov (1964)

Semjon Michailowitsch Lobow ( Russian Семён Миха́йлович Ло́бов ; * February 2 ^July / February 15,  1913 ^{greg. In} the village of Smolnikowo near Klin , Moscow Governorate , today Wolokolamsk District , Moscow Oblast ; † July 12, 1977 in Moscow ) was a Soviet fleet admiral .

Life

Lobow joined the Soviet naval fleet in 1932 . He graduated from the MW Frunze University of Naval Officers in St. Petersburg in 1937 and began his service in the Pacific Fleet in 1938 as a battery commander on a destroyer . From 1939 to 1946 he served on a destroyer as chief officer and commander. In 1940 he became a member of the CPSU and in August 1945 fought against Japan in the Pacific War .

In 1947 Lobow moved to the Black Sea Fleet as commander of a destroyer division . In 1948 he was commander of the cruiser Voroshilov and in 1951 of the battleship Sevastopol . After completing his commanding courses, he headed a ship unit of the Black Sea Fleet from December 1954. He continued his service in the Northern Fleet from October 1955 and became chief of staff of a squadron and in July 1957 naval squadron commander of the Northern Fleet. In 1961 Lobow graduated from the Naval War Academy and was appointed 1st Deputy Commander of the Northern Fleet in October 1961 and as its commander from June 1964. Under Lobow's command, Soviet nuclear submarines went on long journeys under the ice of the Arctic and to the North Pole or cruised in the Mediterranean for the first time.

In May 1972 he became an assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Soviet Navy and was responsible for developing new combat methods in cooperation between the various naval forces. He organized the introduction of new ships and combat techniques into the fleet and their tests. His responsibility was the accident of the nuclear submarine K-27 .

From 1966 to 1976 Lobow was a candidate for the Central Committee of the CPSU and from 1966 to 1974 a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR . He lived in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery after his death .

Awards

• Order of Lenin (2 ×)
• Order of the October Revolution
• Order of the Red Banner (2 ×)
• Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st class
• Order of the Red Star (2 ×)
• other medals from the USSR and orders from other countries

Honors

• Names of a Slava class missile cruiser

literature

• А. А. Гречко [AA Grechko]: Советская военная энциклопедия [Sovetskaya voyennaya entsiklopediya] . In 8 volumes (1976–1981). tape 5 : Линия-Объектовая [Liniya-Ob'yektovaya] . Военное издательство [Voyennoye izdatel'stvo], Moscow 1978, p. 15-16 .

Web links

• Biography of the Chronos project (Russian), accessed July 18, 2011