Service
He entered the Soviet Navy in 1925 and graduated in 1928 from the naval officer school in Leningrad. After that he served in various Fleet assignments. In 1937 and 1938 he took part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republicans. After his return to the USSR he attended the naval warfare school. From 1940 to 1946, during the second world war, he was Commander of the Red Banner Northern Fleet.
After the war he held various naval commands, among them Commander of the Baltic Fleet. In 1956 he was named Acting Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy.
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“The Service without Hope
Is tenderest, I think—
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There is no Diligence like that
That knows not an Until—”
—Emily Dickinson (1831–1886)
“We too are ashes as we watch and hear
The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise
Of one whose promised thoughts of other days
Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed,
The service record of his youth wiped out,
His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)