Pyotr Vasilievich Galkin ( June 26, 1917 , Mariinsky Posad - May 8, 1989 , Moscow , Russia ) - Soviet military leader, Rear Admiral (May 25, 1959), candidate of naval sciences [1 ] Member of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). [2] Head of the central communications center of the Navy (1962-1974) [3] .
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| Date of Birth | June 26, 1917 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Mariinsky Posad , Cheboksary County , Kazan Province , Russian Empire | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | May 8, 1989 (71 years old) | |||||||||||||||||||
| A place of death | Moscow , USSR | |||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||||||||||||
| Type of army | Navy | |||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1934 - 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank |  rear admiral | |||||||||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||||||||||||||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Biography
Born on June 26, 1917 in a peasant family in the village of Novinskaya (from 1966 it became part of the city line of the Mariinsky Posad ) of the Cheboksary district of the Kazan province (now in Chuvashia ), in 1931 he graduated from the second-level school. He worked on the Novinsky collective farm, sailed as a fireman on the steamer “Cooperator” of the Middle Volga Shipping Company, worked at a cooper factory located on the outskirts of his native village. [2]
- 1934 - on a Komsomol ticket, he entered the Naval College of Communications named after G.K. Ordzhonikidze ( Leningrad ).
- 1938 - In the rank of lieutenant he began military service in the Catherine harbor in the Northern Fleet as an assistant to the flagship communications officer of the submarine brigade.
- 1939 - participated in providing radio communications with the plane of the Soviet pilot V.K. Kokkinaki , who made a flight from Moscow through the North Atlantic to the United States .
- 1941-1945 - during the Great Patriotic War he served as head of the radio service of the naval base, deputy head of the communications department of the White Sea Naval Flotilla. As the chief of communications of the Kars naval base, he went to sea ensuring the passage of our transport convoys.
- 1956-1962 - Head of the Communications Department of the Northern Fleet (since March 1961 - Head of the Communications and Surveillance Department).
- May 25, 1959 - The Council of Ministers of the USSR, by its resolution, awarded him the military rank of Rear Admiral .
- 1962-1974 - Head of the central communications center of the Navy. [3]
- 1974 - He retired due to illness, with the right to wear a military uniform. Wife - Alexandra Stepanovna, four children - daughters Tatyana and Galina (medical workers), sons Eugene (captain of the 2nd rank) and Yuri (colonel in the General Staff). [2]
He died on May 8, 1989 in Moscow, and was buried in the Khimki cemetery [1] .
Rewards
- Order of the Red Banner [2]
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree
- Order of the Patriotic War II degree
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- two Orders of the Red Star
- medals
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Lurie V.M. Admirals and generals of the Navy of the USSR: 1946-1960. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2007 .-- S. 107-108. - 672 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0009-9 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Galkin Peter Vasilievich. "From the galaxy of communications-leaders." (Russian) (Retrieved August 8, 2011)
- ↑ 1 2 Pages of the history of the central communications center of the Navy (Russian) (Retrieved August 8, 2011)
Literature
- From the Pleiad of Signal Managers / V.I. Kudyavnin, V.F. Stepanov. // Admirals are our fellow countrymen. Cheboksary, 2001.-S.31-35.
- Lurie V.M. Admirals and generals of the Navy of the USSR. - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2007 .-- 672 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0009-9 .
Links
- Petr Vasilievich Galkin (www.gov.cap.ru) (Russian)