ABSTRACT
Admiral. He was a gunnery officer, and became C-in-C of the Russian Navy in 1992, in succession to CHERNAVIN.
He graduated from his Higher Naval School in 1959. His first appointment was in the Pacific Fleet as head of the Engineering department of a ship. (The Soviet Navy’s officer structure was more akin to that of the USN than the RN, in that USN ‘line’ officers may have charge of engineering departments. The RN employs specialist engineers.) He then progressed steadily from being a gunnery officer, to Executive Officer of a destroyer, to command of a destroyer. His next appointments were as CoS of a ship formation, then as commander of that formation. He finally commanded a Pacific Fleet cruiser, having served in that fleet continuously, 1967-76.
