Died the last Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of the USSR Vladimir Chernavin

Vladimir Chernavin, the last Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, died at the age of 95. transmits TASS with reference to Nikolai Deryabin, head of the apparatus of the Club of Military Leaders of the Russian Federation.

“On the night of March 17-18, Admiral of the Fleet Hero of the USSR Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin died in a military hospital after an illness at the age of 95. He was the last Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy,” the agency was told.

By data TV channel “Star”, farewell to Chernavin will be held at the military memorial in Mytishchi.

Vladimir Chernavin was born in 1928 in Nikolaev. He studied at the Ulyanovsk Mechanical College, the Baku Naval Preparatory School, and the Higher Naval School named after M.V. Frunze.

Chernavin began his service in the USSR Navy in the Northern Fleet in 1951. In April 1959, he was appointed commander of the K-21 nuclear submarine of project 627a Kit, which, under the command of Chernavin, made an autonomous trip to the Arctic for the first time in the history of the Russian fleet. . In 1966, the former Commander-in-Chief of the Navy was a member and commander of the marching headquarters of the transoceanic transition of two nuclear-powered ships “K-116” and “K-133” from the Northern to the Pacific Fleet, which for the first time in the history of the Soviet fleet passed 25,000 miles submerged in a month and a half .

Chernavin has the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (1981), Admiral of the Fleet (1983). In the period from 1985 to 1992, he served as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy – Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR. The last Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of Courage, “For Naval Merit”, two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of the Red Banner, the Red Star and “For the Glory of the Russian Navy.”