Vladimir Tributz

Vladimir Filippovich Tributz ( Russian Владимир Филиппович Трибуц , born July 15 ^{. Jul} / 28. July  1900 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire , † the thirtieth August 1977 in Moscow ) was a Soviet admiral and commander of the Baltic Fleet in World War II .

Life

His ancestors were serfs from the Minsk province at the beginning of the 18th century . After the abolition of serfdom, the Tributz family moved under Tsar Alexander III. from an impoverished village to Petersburg . Here, too, they could only improve their living conditions only a little. After the young Tribuz graduated from a three-tier school, the parents had difficulties financing their son's studies at the 4th grade at the Petrowski University. After completing his medical degree, he entered a medical school, where food and clothing were provided free of charge. Tributz and his classmates took their final exams shortly after the October Revolution . In December 1917 he was transferred to a Petrograd hospital as an assistant doctor and in early 1918 he volunteered in the Red Army . As a soldier, he took part in the battles against German Freikorps units near Narva , where the young Red Army consolidated itself in the first victorious battles.

Early marine career

During the Civil War served Tribuz in the first squadron of the new Red Northern Fleet. On behalf of Lenin , ships were sent from the Baltic Sea to strengthen the defense of the southern borders of the Soviet Republic on the Caspian Sea . From May 1920 he served in the Volga flotilla in Astrakhan and took part in the operations of several destroyers against gangs of the kulaks . He served under Captain IS Issakov on the destroyer "Dejatjelny" and took part in the battles for Baku , Makhachkala and Anzali. The crew of the gunboat "Lenin", where he later served, elected him as a deputy of the Baku Workers and Peasants Council. In 1922 he moved to Arkhangelsk as a naval cadet and graduated from the Frunze Naval Academy in Leningrad in 1926. After graduating, he served as a first lieutenant in the Baltic Fleet, and since 1927 he was first officer and in command of the main gun turret of the battleship " Parischskaja Kommuna ". The officer service on the battleship was an important step in his life. In 1928 he joined the Communist Party and was trained as a senior naval commander on this ship. Unusual skills and a love of naval service determined his rapid career. In 1929 he became the deputy commander and chief watch officer. From 1929 to 1932 he studied at the Naval Academy, after which he served as an officer on the battleship " Marat ". From 1934 to 1936 he was in command of the destroyer " Jakow Sverdlow ". Then he was appointed head of the combat training department at the headquarters of the Baltic Fleet. In February 1938 he was promoted to chief of staff and in April 1939 to commander of the Baltic Fleet.

In World War II

Heavy cruiser Kirov , flagship of the Baltic Fleet in 1941

On January 28, 1940, he was promoted to flag captain 1st rank and on June 4, 1940 to vice admiral. In June he led the Baltic Fleet from Kronstadt in the Baltic Sea to support the ground forces in the coastal areas. Under the People's Commissar of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov , he headed the defense of Tallinn and the Moonsund Archipelago against the German invaders. In August 1941, he led the withdrawal of the Baltic fleet to Kronstadt on board the heavy cruiser Kirov . On October 23, 1941, the evacuation of the Hanko naval base , which had become necessary and lasted 49 days, began. It was necessary to move 27,000 people and thousands of tons of cargo. Of 88 ships that took part in the evacuation, 25 were lost, including 1 battleship, 1 cruiser, 15 destroyers and 27 submarines. In 1944 he was significantly involved in the operation in the Oranienbaum bridgehead , which helped lift the blockade of Leningrad when the 2nd shock army landed . Its naval forces were also involved in the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk operation , during which troops from the Leningrad and Karelian fronts made amphibious landings. In the following years 1944 and 1945 his maritime forces supported the operations of the 2nd Belarusian Front on the coast of East Prussia and East Pomerania .

post war period

From March 1946 to May 1947 commanded the 8th naval flottile. From 1946 to 1950 he was Deputy Supreme Soviet of the USSR , and since May 28, 1947, Deputy Commander in Chief of the Naval Forces in the Far East . In June 1948 he was recalled to Moscow . From September 1948 to January 1949 he was head of the Naval Education Office in Leningrad. From March 1949 to December 1951 he headed the hydrographic administration of the Soviet Navy. From June to September 1948 and from January to March 1949 he was available to the Commander-in-Chief as an advisor. In January 1952, he moved to the post of department head of the faculty of the Voroshilov Military Academy. He acted as the first head of the department of surface ships, from August 1953 he was head of the department of tactics, from December 1953 to July 1956 head of the naval faculty. From July 1956 to August 1957 he worked on operational-tactical problems in the naval general staff as head of research. Until February 1961 he was chief of the naval inspectorate in the Ministry of Defense . After his retirement, from 1961 on, he still headed a sector in the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information. He studied the history of the Soviet navy and wrote over 100 manuscripts and publications. In 1970 he was awarded a doctorate in history for his scientific work . Tributz died on August 30, 1977 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Awards

• 2 Order of Lenin
• Order of the October Revolution
• Order of the Red Banner
• Order of Nakhimov
• Order of the Red Star

Web links

• Biography on the part of the Ministry of Defense (Russian)
• Biography on www.hrono (Russian)