Vladimir Ivanovich Kuroyedov

Vladimir Kuroyedov 2003

Vladimir Ivanovich Kurojedow ( Russian Влади́мир Ива́нович Курое́дов ; born September 5, 1944 in the village of Bamburovo, Khasan district ) is a Russian naval admiral and former commander in chief of the Russian naval fleet .

Life

Kurojedow comes from a family of officers, attended secondary school in Ussuriysk and began his service in the Soviet Navy in 1962 as a course student at the Pacific Officers' College of Naval Forces SO Makarov and graduated in 1967. He then became the battle section commander for navigation on the coastal defense ship SKR-92 and from 1968 to 1971 Chief Officer on the coastal defense ship SKR-18 in the Pacific Fleet . After becoming an assistant to the chief of staff of the 202nd anti- submarine brigade in 1971 , he took over the command of the coastal defense ship SKR-46 until 1973 . Until 1976 he was deputy head of a unit for operations and combat preparation of the staff of the Strelok military base and attended the Naval War Academy from 1976 to 1978 , which he graduated with honors. He then became chief of staff of the 47th Coast Guard Brigade and in 1981 commander of the 7th mine clearance brigade of the Primorsk Flotilla . From 1984 to 1987 he was employed as chief of staff of the Sakhalin flotilla. This was followed by a visit to the Military Academy of the General Staff until 1989, from which he graduated with a gold medal. In the same year he was promoted to Rear Admiral and returned to the Sakhalin Flotilla as their commander. From 1990 to 1993 he commanded the Primorsk flotilla. On August 2, 1993 Kuroyedov was Chief of Staff of the Baltic Fleet and on April 4, 1994 commander of the Pacific Fleet. In 1997 he continued his military career for a few months as Chief of Staff and as 1st Deputy Commander in Chief of the Russian Navy and was promoted to Admiral on April 4, 1996 . By order of President Yeltsin on November 7, 1997, Kuroyedov became supreme commander of the Russian Navy. On February 21, 2000 he was promoted to Fleet Admiral. Kuroyedov realized that the Russian Navy should focus on completions, repairs and modernizations in order to secure combat readiness with the available financial means. At the same time he advocated reducing the size of the fleets and concentrating the strategy of the fleet on solving pressing economic and political problems.

On September 5, 2005, he was released as commander-in-chief after the serious accident of the submarine AS-28 occurred on August 3, 2005 under his command, the third in a row. There had already been accidents with the Kursk and K-159 nuclear submarines . The Russian Defense Ministry gave Kuroyedov's age as the official reason for his resignation .

Kuroyedov is a doctor and professor of political science. He is married and has a son.

Awards

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland 3rd Class
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th class
• Order for Military Merit
• Medal “For Service to the Fatherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR” 3rd class
• More medals

Works

• Военно-морской энциклопедический словарь . Военное издательство, Moscow 2003, ISBN 5-203-01941-X , p. 960 .
• Istoria voenno-morskogo iskusstva . Terra Fantastika, Saint Petersburg 2005, ISBN 5-699-09068-1 .
• Istoria rossiskogo flota v svete mirovoi politiki i ekonomiki (X-XIX vv.) . Kuchkovo pole, Moscow 2006, ISBN 5-901679-15-6 , p. 830 .
• Основы военно-морской науки: военно-теоретический труд . Военное издательство, Moscow 2008, ISBN 5-203-02063-9 , p. 766 .

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Kuroyedov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• История штурманской службы - Kuroyedov's biography (Russian), accessed July 23, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kuroyedov's biography (Russian), accessed on July 23, 2011
2. ↑ Great Russian Encyclopedia (Russian), accessed July 23, 2011
3. ↑ Egbert Lemcke: Difficult overcoming of nostalgia , Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven eV of September 27, 2002.
4. ↑ FAZ.NET : Russian naval commander must go August 8, 2005, accessed on July 22, 2011