Sergey Gorshkov

Sergei Gorshkov Georgijewitsch (Russian: Сергей Георгиевич Горшков ) (. * 13 Februarjul / February 26 1910greg in Kamenetz -Podolsk, Russian Empire, today Kamjanez - Podilskyj, Ukraine, . † 13 May 1988 in Moscow) was Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union.

Biography

Sergei Gorshkov Georgijewitsch was born in 1910 as the son of a teacher. In 1927, he joined the Soviet Navy and studied physics and mathematics at Leningrad, where he also graduated from the Frunze Naval College before he initially did as an officer in 1931 in the Black Sea Fleet and the Pacific Fleet service.

At the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War in 1941 he commanded as Rear Admiral the Azov Flotilla. In this capacity, he also learned the later heads of state and leader of the Soviet Union Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev know who reports in his memoirs that his unit had been rescued by Gorshkov ships from the German encirclement. Later Gorshkov commanded the Danube Flotilla until it due to disagreements with the commander of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, Marshal of the Soviet Union Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbuchin, lost his command.

Under Nikita Khrushchev rose Gorshkov 1955 First First Deputy Chief of the Soviet Navy at, in January 1956, he was the successor of the Commander of the Soviet Navy, Nikolai Kuznetsov Gerassimowitsch, and appointed First Deputy Defense Minister of the Soviet Union.

In the same year Gorshkov, which was in 1942 joined the Communist Party, was finally elected candidate of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1961 and a full member of the Central Committee. In 1967 he was promoted to Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union, the maritime equivalent of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

As commander in chief he could Khrushchev to convince them of the need to convert the Soviet Navy from a coastal defense to a "global " fleet, which would be able to enforce the Soviet interests around the world. Until 1985, among other reasons, the defense budget of the Soviet Union had ballooned to 40 % of the total budget, what Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev prompting to dismiss Gorshkov and replaced by Admiral Vladimir Nikolaevich Tschernawin, who has served as Chief of Staff since 1982.

Gorshkov died on 13 May 1988 in Moscow.

Due to its exposure Gorshkov was regarded as the "father of the Soviet atomic submarines " or " father of the Soviet High Seas Fleet ", the meaning of a " Mahan of the Soviet Union " is tantamount.

The 1996 decommissioned aircraft carrier Kiev class Admiral Flota Sowjetskowo Sojusa Gorshkov and the under construction lead ship of the new Admiral Gorshkov class were named after him.

Works

  • Navy as a state power. 1976 ( German: navy Soviet Union in 1978. ).
  • The development of Seekriegskunst.
  • Fleets in war and peace.

Awards

  • Twice Hero of the Soviet Union 1965.1982
  • 7 Order of Lenin 1953,1960,1963,1965,1970,1978,1982
  • 3 Red Banner
  • Kutusoworden 1st class
  • Uschakoworden 1st class
  • Uschakoworden 2nd class
  • Red Star
  • Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in Gold ( 1970)
May 13 Counter admiral Southwestern Front (Soviet Union) Fyodor Tolbukhin Erich Honecker Kiev-class aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov-class frigate Order of the Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Order of Ushakov Order of the Red Star Berliner Zeitung Alexander Ilyich Yegorov Grigory Kulik Boris Shaposhnikov Semyon Timoshenko Georgy Zhukov Leonid Govorov Konstantin Rokossovsky Rodion Malinovsky Andrei Grechko Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov Dmitriy Ustinov Sergey Sokolov (commander) Vasily Ivanovich Petrov Integrated Authority File
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