Pavel Ivanovich Boltunov ( January 10 [23], 1907 , the village of Kormilovka , now Kormilovsky District , Omsk Region, Russia - January 13, 1956 , Moscow ) - Soviet naval leader, rear admiral (03/03/1942).
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| Place of Birth | Kormilovka village, now Kormilovsky district , Omsk region , Russia | |||||||||||
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| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||||
| Type of army | USSR Navy | |||||||||||
| Years of service | 1927 - 1956 | |||||||||||
| Rank |  rear admiral | |||||||||||
| Commanded | 1st brigade of the submarine of the Black Sea Fleet | |||||||||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||||||||
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Biography
Born in 1907 in the village of Kormilovka , now Kormilovskiy district , Omsk region . Russian.
From October 1924 to October 1927 - student of the VMU. Frunze .
From October 1927 to January 1928 - platoon commander of the Baltic Navy crew.
From January 1928 to October 1929 - navigator of the destroyer "Volodarsky" Baltic Fleet .
From October 1929 to October 1930 - student of SKKS Navigation class.
From October 1930 to December 1931 - navigator of the submarine "Spartakovets" Black Sea Fleet .
From December 1931 to December 1932 - student UOPP Underwater class.
From December 1932 to April 1934 - assistant commander of the submarine "Garibaldiyets" Black Sea Fleet .
From April 1934 to February 1937 - the commander of the submarine " L-4 " Black Sea Fleet .
From February 1937 to February 1939 - commander of the P / B "Elbrus" Black Sea Fleet .
From February 1939 to February 1941 - Chief of Staff of the 1st Submarine Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet . January 3, 1942 Boltunov was awarded the military rank of Rear Admiral .
Member of the CPSU (b) since 1941.
From February 1941 to August 1942 - commander of the 1st submarine brigade of the Black Sea Fleet .
From August 1942 to January 1943 - and. about. submarine brigade commander. Black Sea Fleet .
Since January 1943, head of the scuba diving department of the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet .
On May 16, 1944, the first Decree of the Supreme Council of the USSR Armed Forces was issued on awarding the Order of Ushakov I degree - For successful actions during the liberation of Crimea Rear Admiral Boltunov and Lieutenant General Aviation Yermachenkov . But the badge of the Order of Ushakov of the 1st degree with No. 1 was awarded to Vice Admiral V.F. Tributs, who then commanded the Red Banner Baltic Fleet and was awarded the Decree of July 22, 1944.
In March 1945, Rear Admiral Boltunov was removed from the post of head of the scuba diving department for the death at our base of the Romanian captured submarine TS-2.
On the afternoon of February 20, 1945, in an attempt to retrieve a German torpedo “G7a” from a torpedo launcher on a TS-2, in the port of Poti, an explosion occurred in the torpedo's charging compartment. According to the commission investigating the disaster, the explosion occurred as a result of premature removal of the longitudinal torpedo beam. The torpedo abruptly lifted its nose up and hit the charging compartment on the incoming parts of the hull. As a result of the accident, 14 people were killed, and the boat itself, despite being in the port, sank after 65 minutes, because of the confusion of personnel, the struggle for the survivability of the ship was not waged. Eight days later, the “TS-2” was lifted from a depth of 6 meters by the emergency rescue service of the Black Sea Fleet and towed to Sevastopol to carry out restoration repairs. The dead crew members are buried in the city cemetery in Poti. According to the results of the organizational conclusions, the head of the mine and torpedo department of the Black Sea Fleet captain 2nd rank A.P. Dubrovin, the flagship miner of the Black Sea Fleet captain 1st rank S.V. Rogulin and the commander of the submarine division Hero of the Soviet Union B.A. Alekseev were reduced by one step, head of the scuba diving department Rear Admiral P. I. Boltunov removed from office, rear commander Rear Admiral S. E. Chursin and his chief of staff captain 2nd rank ND Novikov were severely reprimanded. The commander of “TS-2” Alinovsky “for systematic drunkenness, the breakdown of discipline and the organization of service” was put on trial by a military tribunal [1] .
From March 1945 to November 1945 - Chief of Staff of the Training Ship of the Black Sea Fleet .
From November 1945 to May 1947 - commander of a submarine brigade of the Black Sea Fleet .
From 1947 to 1948 - Deputy Admiral Inspector of the Navy Inspection of the Main Inspection of the Armed Forces.
From 1948 to 1949 - Admiral Inspector of the Submarine Fleet of the Navy Inspection of the Main Inspection of the Armed Forces.
From 1949 to 1950 - student of the K.E. Voroshilov Naval Academy .
From 1950 to 1952, he was the head of the Directorate of Combat Training of the Submarine and Submarine Defense of the Main Directorate of Combat Training of the Naval General Staff.
From 1952 to 1953 - Deputy Chief of the Naval General Staff for Submarine Forces.
From April 1953 until his death, he served as deputy chief of the Directorate of Combat Training of the General Staff of the Navy.
He died on January 13, 1956 .
He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow.
Rewards
- Order of Lenin No. 125041 (1950) [2]
- three orders of the Red Banner (1942, 1944, 1955)
- The Order of Ushakov, 1st degree, No. 37 (05.16.1944) [3] .
- Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (1946)
- Medal "For the Defense of Sevastopol"
- Medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus"
- Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
- Medals.
- Orders (thanks) of the Supreme Commander in which P. I. Boltunov is noted [4]
- For the assault on the fortress and the most important naval base on the Black Sea by the city of Sevastopol. May 10, 1944 No. 111
Memory
Works
Notes
- ↑ “The Great Patriotic War underwater” Archived copy of November 5, 2013 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Order of Lenin No. 100000 - 199999
- ↑ CAVALERS OF THE ORDER USHAKOV I DEGREE, THEIR POSITIONS, DATE OF ORDERS AND NUMBERS OF THEIR ORDERS
- ↑ Orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Collection. M., Military Publishing, 1975.
Literature
- Lurie V. M. Admirals and generals of the Navy of the USSR during the Great Patriotic and Soviet-Japanese Wars (1941-1945), - St. Petersburg. : Russian-Baltic Information Center BLITZ, 2001.
