Rudakov, Olimpiy Ivanovich

Born March 30, 1913 in Kazan in the family of a student of the veterinary institute. Then his parents ( veterinarian Ivan Rudakov and the daughter of the priest Lyubov Rozhdestvenskaya) moved to the Alexander district of Vladimir province . ^[one]

He graduated from the nine-year-old in the city of Alexandrov .

He began his career in 1930 as a loader at the Moscow Kauchuk plant. He joined the Komsomol and, with a ticket to the Komsomol Central Committee, was sent to study at the Higher Naval School named after M.V. Frunze , which he graduated in the fall of 1937 .

He was a naval cadet , participated in the crew of the battleship of the Baltic Fleet " Marat " in an overseas trip to England and the international naval parade on May 20, 1937 at Portsmouth ’s Spithead Raid on the occasion of the coronation of King George VI , in which about 200 ships of a number of world fleets participated .

Being the Red Navy of the battleship “Marat”, he posed for the sculptor Matvey Manizer for one of the sculptures decorating the metro station “ Ploshchad Revolyutsii ” ^{[2] [3]} .

Then Rudakov served in the Navy in the Northern Fleet as commander of the BS-2 on the destroyers Uritsky and Valerian Kuibyshev (1937-1939). Then he was sent to the Higher Special Courses for Officers as a student at the artillery department, which he graduated in October 1940 . Returning to the Northern Fleet, until November 1941 he served as the commander of the BC-2 on the destroyers Karl Liebknecht and Thundering , then as an assistant to the destroyer commander Crushing .

Conviction

In November 1942, “Crushing” crashed during a severe storm in the Barents Sea - it hit the stern of the hull, which soon sank, with the help of waves. When assisting him with the Soviet ships that arrived at the scene of the accident, most of the crew was removed from him. However, the destroyer commander - 3rd-rank captain M. A. Kurilekh , military commissar - senior political instructor G.I. Kalmykov and assistant commander- captain-lieutenant O. I. Rudakov did not leave the “Crushing”, which caused indignation as the crew, so and fleet management. According to the verdict of the military court of the Northern Fleet, Kurilekh and commander of the BS-2 Isaenko for violating military discipline, cowardice and cowardice shown during the death of the ship; Kalmykov was sentenced to 10 years; commander of the BS-4 Anisimov, the commander of the BS-1 Grigoriev and the commander of the BS-5 Sukharev were sent to the penal battalion to the front. ^[4] Thanks to the intervention of Vice Admiral A. G. Golovko, the death sentence to O. I. Rudakov was commuted to the deprivation of the military rank of lieutenant commander and 10 years of imprisonment in forced labor camps, with a delay of his execution until the end of hostilities and sent to front. By a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in March 1943, this punishment was replaced by his stay in the penal units at the front. ^[3]

Participation in the Second World War

O. I. Rudakov took part in the fighting of the Rybachy Peninsula until July 1943 as an ordinary mortar platoon of a separate penalty company of the 50th Army of the Karelian Front . After receiving light shrapnel wounds, the decision of the military tribunal of the army convicted him. Then Rudakov - assistant commander of a mortar platoon, commander of a fire platoon of a fighter anti-tank battery of 45 mm guns of the 420th Infantry Regiment of the 122nd Division of the 19th Army of the same front, with reinstatement in the officer rank. In February 1944, O. I. Rudakov was recalled to the Northern Fleet and until September of that year was an assistant commander of the destroyer “ Loud ”.

After the war

Until May 1949, Rudakov served on ships of foreign construction, adopted in 1944 from the Allies for reparations from Italy and included in the Northern Fleet. Until July 1945, he was the commander of the destroyer Valiant (formerly the Roxborough of the British fleet), then until December 1947 he was senior assistant to the commander of the battleship Arkhangelsk (the former Royal Sovereign of the British fleet), then he was commander of the cruiser Murmansk (former "US Navy Milwaukee "). In the spring of 1949, Rudakov made a transoceanic crossing on it and transferred this ship to the command of the American Navy. Before being assigned to the Sverdlov cruiser, in May 1949 - August 1951 , he was commander of the Kerch cruiser of the Black Sea Fleet (formerly Emanuele Filiberto duca d'Aosta of the Italian fleet).

In June 1953, 1st-rank captain Olimpiy Rudakov again brought another warship, the Sverdlov cruiser, to Portsmouth to take part in a naval parade to mark the accession to the throne of Elizabeth II . To mark the campaign of the Soviet cruiser "Sverdlov" to England, in 1954 the badge "For a campaign in England" was issued, which was awarded to all members of the crew of the cruiser.

Rudakov twice visited the English city of Portsmouth for the coronation of the rulers of Great Britain - George VI and Elizabeth II . During the last ceremony, he presented the newly-made queen with a gift from the Soviet government - an ermine mantle and was awarded an invitation to dance from her ^{[5] [6]} .

O. I. Rudakov in August 1953 was awarded the next military rank of rear admiral and he was appointed chief of staff of the squadron of ships of the 4th Navy. In this position in 1953-1955, he again went to England on the ships of the squadron. Then he was sent to study as a student of the naval faculty of the Higher Military Academy. K.E. Voroshilova , which Rudakov graduated with honors in 1957 .

From November 1957 to March 1958 Rudakov was at the disposal of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense, after which he was sent to scientific and pedagogical work at the Naval Academy. There he served until September 1959 as a deputy head of the department for organizing operational and combat training of the Navy, then he was the head of this department, then - until October 1973 - the department of command and control of the Navy. He received the title of associate professor (1962), became a candidate for naval sciences (1969).

In connection with the disease (kidney cancer, which was removed in 1961 ) was at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. He died on June 2, 1974 in Leningrad, was buried at the Serafimovsky cemetery .

His son - Yuri Olimpievich - in the rank of captain of the 2nd rank was the commander of the patrol ship Valiant . ^[7] He then led the 5th SIC Division of the Navy's anti-submarine warfare department. ^[eight]

• He was awarded three orders of the Red Banner (1949, 1953 - twice), two orders of World War II of the I degree (1945) and II degree (1946) and the Red Star (1947, 1949), as well as medals.

• Olimpiy Ivanovich Rudakov - flot.com