Alexey Modestovich Lavrov ( March 3, 1887 - May 29, 1942 [1] or June 29, 1942 [2] or July 10, 1942 [3] ) - Soviet naval leader, engineer, hydrograph , participant in many Arctic expeditions, editor-in-chief of the special leadership of the hydrographic department of the Navy of the Soviet Union, engineer-rear admiral ( 1940 ). [3]
| Alexey Modestovich Lavrov | ||||||
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 A. M. Lavrov | ||||||
| Date of Birth | February 17, 1887 ( March 3, 1887 ) | |||||
| Place of Birth | Kolpino St. Petersburg Province , Russian Empire | |||||
| Date of death | June 29, 1942 (55 years old) | |||||
| Place of death | Omsk of the Siberian Territory , Soviet Union | |||||
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| Type of army | Navy | |||||
| Years of service | 1904 - 1942 | |||||
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| Battles / wars | World War I | |||||
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Biography
He was born in the family of a master (according to other sources [1] an engineer-shipbuilder) of Izhora factories . In military service since 1904 . [2] In 1900 he entered the Naval Cadet Corps, after which in 1907 he was a midshipman on the Bogatyr armored cruiser, having traveled to England , Norway , France , Spain , Greece , Turkey , and Germany . Then he served as midshipman on the destroyers of the Baltic Fleet. He held the post of officer in charge of the destroyer Amurets ( 1908 - 1910 ).
From 1911 to 1915 [4] participated in all navigations of the hydrographic expedition of the Arctic Ocean ( 1910 - 1915 ) aboard the Taimyr icebreaker . During the wintering, together with N. I. Evgenov, he first described the Gafner Bay in Taimyr , protruding into the coast for 40 kilometers . On September 3, 1913 , the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago was discovered.
After the expedition, during the First World War, Lavrov served as a senior assistant in the Baltic Fleet on the destroyer Ussuriets , in 1917-1918 he commanded the destroyer Molodetsky , and as part of the squadron he made the famous Ice Campaign from Helsingfors to Kronshtadt . Having sided with the Soviet government, in 1918–1922 he served in the Baltic Sea Mine Division as the head of the division and commander of the Novik destroyer.
From 1922 , the editor-in-chief of missions and special manuals and manuals, until the end of his life he worked at the Hydrographic Directorate of the Navy of the USSR, without interruption from service in 1921 - 1925 he attended the course of the Leningrad Geographical Institute . From 1924 to 1926 he headed the special commission for the study of the Arctic Ocean . In 1926, he led ice reconnaissance at the Sedov icebreaker during the Kara expedition . He headed the eastern expedition on the Malygin icebreaker to rescue the expedition on the airship of General Umberto Nobile in 1928 . Participated in the first Soviet reconnaissance flight in the Arctic with pilot B. G. Chukhnovsky . He headed the Taimyr Hydrographic Expedition ( 1932 ), which studied the north-eastern part of the Kara Sea and discovered the Red Navy Islands . In 1935, he carried out a special command assignment in the western sector of the Arctic. He carried out the escort of ships by the Northern Sea Route from Leningrad to strengthen the Pacific Fleet . In 1941, he, along with the Hydrographic Institute, was evacuated to Omsk. As soon as possible, he launched the release of cards for the navy.
Editor-in-chief of the special manual for the hydrographic department of the USSR Navy . He died of a brain hemorrhage while being evacuated in 1942 . [1] Originally buried in the Cossack cemetery of the city, then the ashes were transferred to the site of the Northern cemetery . In 1987, a monument was erected on the grave .
Address
He lived in Omsk in the house number 6 on the street of the Republic (now Lenin Street ).
Ranks
- Michman ( 1908 );
- Senior Lieutenant ( July 28, 1917 ) [5]
- 3rd rank flagship engineer ( December 2, 1935 ). [6] [7]
- Rear Admiral Engineer ( June 4, 1940 ). [eight]
Rewards
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor;
- Order of the Red Star;
- Anniversary medal "XX years of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army";
- Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree;
- Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree.
Memory
The cape and island in the Laptev Sea, the strait in the Barents Sea, the bay in Antarctica, the cape in the Kara Sea are named after A.M. Lavrov:
- Cape Gafner Fjord Bay on the northwest coast of Taimyr. Described and mapped without a name g / e SLO in 1915. It was named by Soviet hydrographs in 1937.
- Cape and island in the southeastern part of the North Earth. The cape was opened and named in 1913 g / e SLO. The name of the island arose in the late 1940s from the name of the cape and was approved by the decision of the Krasnoyarsk regional executive committee in 1952.
- Strait between the islands of Halle, Wilcek, Salm and the Hochstetter Islands arch. ZFI. Named in the 1950s by Soviet hydrographs.
Publications
Literature
- Pugacheva N.M. Lavrov Aleksey Modestovich // Vibe P.P. Omsk Historical and Local Lore Dictionary / P.P. Vibe, A.P. Mikheev, N.M. Pugacheva. - M., 1994. - S. 132: Portr .;
- Guryev G. Yu. Lavrov Aleksey Modestovich // Omsk necropolis. - Omsk, 2005 .-- S. 71-74: Portr.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 http://st-efrem.orthodoxy.ru/kaz/klad/m10.htm
- ↑ 1 2 Lavrov Alexey Modestovich (1887-1942) | Pages of Russian history . Date of treatment February 20, 2013. Archived March 17, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 Chronicle of the Great War »Participants» Lavrov, Aleksey Modestovich »Biography . Date of treatment February 20, 2013. Archived March 17, 2013.
- ↑ An expedition that, with the recognition of contemporaries, was not lucky. It ended when the Imperialist blazed in full swing in Europe and the warring countries had no time for geographical discoveries beyond the Arctic Circle . After the Revolution and Civil, most of its members ( officers ) found themselves in exile and preferred to forget about them. Later, Roald Amundsen will say with regret: “In peacetime, this expedition would have excited the entire civilized world!” During six years of sailing on the icebreaking ships Taimyr and Vaigach , more than thirty officers of the Imperial Navy served at different times. These are those who prepared the expedition and drove the ships to the Far East and those who directly participated in research in the Arctic .
- ↑ Produced by decree of the Provisional Government "for distinction in service."
- ↑ List of conferring the highest officer ranks of the Army and Navy.
- ↑ Order of the NPO of the USSR No. 2500 of December 2, 1935 .
- ↑ Decree of the Council of People 's Commissars of the USSR No. 945 of June 4, 1940 .
Links
- Names on the sea map
- Lavrov Alexey Modestovich
- 120 years since the birth of A. M. Lavrov
- Genealogy Research Center
- List of Fleet Flagship Engineers, 1st Rank Flagship Engineers, 2nd Rank Flagship Engineers, 3rd Rank Flagship Engineers of the USSR Red Army MC (1935-1940)
- List of admirals, vice admirals, rear admirals of the USSR Navy (1940-1945)
- List of engineer-admirals, engineer-vice-admirals, engineer-rear-admirals of the USSR Navy (1940-1945)
- List of engineer-admirals, engineer-vice-admirals, engineer-rear-admirals of the USSR Navy (1946-1960)