Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin

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Vladimir Chernavin during the awarding of the Alexander Nevsky Order, December 2013

Vladimir Chernavin ( Russian Владимир Николаевич Чернавин * 22. April 1928 in Nikolayev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Soviet - Russian Commodore , 1985-1991 Supreme Commander of the Soviet Seekriegsflotte and until 1992 the Navy of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR .

Life

Chernavin comes from the family of a worker. In 1944 he graduated from the ten-class preparatory naval school in Baku and then began an apprenticeship at the Ulyanovsk Mechanical Technical Center . In 1949 he became a member of the CPSU .

Soviet Navy

In 1947 Chernavin's career began in the Soviet Navy and in 1951 he graduated from the Leningrad Officers' College MW Frunze . He took up his first service as a navigator and later as chief officer of diesel -powered submarines in the Northern Fleet . From 1956 he commanded conventionally operated submarines of Project 613 and later belonged to the group of the first nuclear submarine commanders. In 1962, the K-21 submarine of Project 627a drove autonomously for 50 days under his direction. On the way, Tschernawin worked out new methods for long journeys in a permanently submerged state and helped to develop new routes under the Arctic ice. In 1962, he was the first Soviet naval officer to oversee the launch of a sea-based missile from a submerged submarine. In 1965 he graduated from the Naval Academy, and in 1969 the Military Academy of the General Staff of the USSR . When the formation of the 19th submarine division of the Northern Fleet and its deployment in the Sajda Bay began in February 1969, the sea ​​captain Chernavin was appointed as its first commander. From 1972 to August 1973 he worked as chief of staff and was promoted to rear admiral . He then commanded the 3rd submarine flotilla of the Northern Fleet from Gadschijewo until September 1974, already as Vice Admiral . In the same year he became chief of staff and first deputy commander and on July 1, 1977 commander of the northern fleet. By resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on February 18, 1981, he was awarded for

"... the great contribution to increasing the combat readiness of the fleet and its competent leadership under the difficult conditions on the world ocean as well as for personally shown courage on the difficult and responsible voyages on the oceans ..."

the title Hero of the Soviet Union (No. 11451), associated with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal . In the same year he became a candidate for the Central Committee of the CPSU .

In the second half of December 1981 he became Chief of Staff and 1st Deputy Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy. By resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on November 4, 1983, Chernavin was awarded the highest military rank of Fleet Admiral, combined with the presentation of the Marshal Star. On November 29, 1985, he was appointed to the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy and Deputy Minister of Defense. In 1986 he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. From 1979 to 1989 he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Post Soviet time

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , Chernavin worked until August 1992 as the commander-in-chief of the Commonwealth of Independent States' fleet. He retired in 1993, but was director of the Russian State Naval Cultural-Historical Center until April 6, 1994 (Russian: Российский государственный морской историко-культурный центр). Since January 14, 1992, the day of the establishment of the interregional social organization Association of Submariners of the Russian Navy (Russian: Союз моряков-подводников Военно-Морского Флота Российской he Федер became its permanent chairman). Since 2002 Tschernawin has been an academician as a professor of the academy for questions of security, defense and the legal order . In 2003 he was awarded the title of Laureate of the Peter the Great Prize for his “outstanding contribution to the development and consolidation of the Russian state” , combined with a gold medal.

Chernavin lives in Moscow today .

Awards

literature

  • Vladimir Chernavin: На морских и океанских просторах . Знание, Moscow 1987.
  • Vladimir Chernavin: Флот в судьбе России (Фрагменты из мемуаров) ' . Андреевский флаг, Moscow 1993.
  • Vladimir Chernavin: Атомный подводный ... Флот в судьбе России. Размышления после штормов и походов ' . Андреевский флаг, Moscow 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wladimir N. Tschernawin in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on April 15, 2011 ( beginning of the article freely accessible)