Fedor Arkadevich Bersenev - Russian naval artillery officer, explorer of the Far East, flagship artilleryman of the 2nd Pacific Squadron, who died in the Tsushima battle.
| Fedor Arkadevich Bersenev | |
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| Date of Birth | March 5, 1861 |
| Place of Birth | Myshkin city, Yaroslavl province |
| Date of death | May 14, 1905 ( 44) |
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| Affiliation |  Russian empire |
| Type of army | Navy |
| Years of service | 1882-1905 |
| Rank | Colonel of the Marine Artillery Corps |
| Battles / wars | Tsushima battle |
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Biography
Born in the town of Myshkin in the family of the secretary of the county court (subsequently the notary public). He graduated from high school in Yaroslavl.
In 1879 he graduated from the Technical School of the Maritime Department in Kronstadt . May 31, 1882 received the rank of ensign of the Marine Artillery Corps . In 1883 he was transferred to the Far East. In 1884 he served on the gunboat " Walrus " of the Siberian Flotilla . In 1885, with the Abrek clipper, he participated in a hydrographic expedition to the Sea of Okhotsk , and in the summer he was involved in mapping the Pacific coast and the mouth of the Amur. In 1886 he was assigned to the Ermine gunboat. In 1887 he was transferred to the gunboat Sivuch . In the same 1887 he was appointed to manage weapons in the Siberian Navy crew.
In 1889-1892 He graduated from the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy in St. Petersburg in the 1st category.
In 1892-1893 was a member of the Commission of artillery experiments in St. Petersburg. In 1893, he was sent to Sheffield , England, to the Vickers factories, with the aim of observing the manufacture of armor plates for Russian ships and their acceptance. From November 1985 to May 1896 he was in the American city of Pittsburgh, at the Carnegie factories, where he became a specialist in the theory and practice of manufacturing armored steel. In 1896 he returned to Russia, was promoted to captain of KMA and appointed to head the armor workshop of the Obukhov Steel Plant in St. Petersburg. At the same time he was the treasurer of the Nevsky Society for the Organization of Popular Entertainment. On May 7, 1901, he prevented the shooting of the workers of the Obukhov plant sent by a detachment of sailors who arranged a strike, but he himself was forced to leave the factory and transferred to the Training and Artillery Detachment of the Baltic Fleet.
In 1901, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the KMA and appointed lecturer at the Technical School of the Maritime Department in Kronstadt. During the summer navigation he participated in the voyages on the cruiser “ Minin ” (flag of Admiral Z. P. Rozhestvensky ) as the flagship artilleryman.
In July 1904 he was appointed the flagship artilleryman of the 2nd Pacific Squadron and in the same year promoted to the rank of KMA Colonel . Participated in the Tsushima campaign and battle.
The first flagship artilleryman, Lieutenant Colonel Bersenev, a tall and skeletal man, fully met in Russian conditions, as a specialist, the modern requirements of knowledge. He was an honest officer and knew his business well. But his instructions were very often useful, the admiral paid little attention.
- A. S. Novikov-Priboy
On May 14, 1905, he replaced the retired senior artilleryman of the squadron battleship “ Prince Suvorov ”, Lieutenant Vladimirsky, at the post of the range finder and was killed by a fragment 13 minutes after the start of the battle.
In the wheelhouse, a senior ship artilleryman, Lieutenant Vladimirsky, was wounded. The left range finder of Barra and Stroda was defeated. He was replaced by the right. Trying to measure the distance to the enemy, a long skeletal man, a flagship artilleryman, Colonel Bersenev, began to fall to him, but he immediately fell down dead.
- A. S. Novikov-Priboy
The body sank with the ship. June 13, 1905 was removed from the lists of the fleet.
Family
- Sister Varvara Arkadyevna
- Wife Elena Konstantinovna (nee Dushina), one of the first Russian female doctors
- Children:
- Vera (1897)
- Andrew (1898)
- Tamara (1900)
- Stepan (1903)
Memory
Cape and bay at the northwestern tip of the Tugur Peninsula in the Sea of Okhotsk are named after F. A. Bersenev.