Blokhin, Konstantin Platonovich

Born on May 21, 1862, from the nobles of the Perm Province, the son of Major of the Marine Service of the Russian Imperial Fleet Platon Maksimovich Blokhin and the daughter of the Perm Mayor Alexandra Dmitrievna Blokhina (Smyshlyaeva).

• September 30, 1883 - Midshipman .
• He graduated from the Naval School 32nd list and produced on the exam in midshipmen.
• 1896 - Enrolled in the artillery officers of the 1st category.
• June 3, 1895 - Junior Separated Chief of the Naval Cadet Corps .
• September 9, 1900 - Senior Separated Chief of the Naval Cadet Corps.
• 1902 - Enrolled in the navigator officers of the 1st category.
• He graduated from the Nikolaev Academy , Artillery and Shturmanskie classes.
• 1904 - Junior Navigating Officer of the Dmitry Donskoy cruiser.
• June 7, 1904 - Senior Officer of the Dmitry Donskoy cruiser.

Himself executive and accurate, Blokhin demanded the same from his subordinates. He graduated from the Maritime Academy and was considered a good mathematician. Prior to his appointment as a senior officer, he served as a tutor in the naval corps, where he taught astronomy, nautical photography and mathematics. The cadets feared him for rigor. While lecturing, he held on with such confidence that he was given the nickname: "Indestructible aplomb." He kept his ship in order and purity, as far as swimming conditions allowed. In the mess-room he liked to get drunk with officers, but on the upper deck in relations with them was very demanding. He had a passion for arguing. For hours, he argued mine and artillery officers that they incorrectly educate their specialists. The team, sandwiched by them in the iron grip of discipline, was afraid of him. And he, possessing an excellent memory, knew all the sailors on the ship, not only by last name, but also by the personal properties of each of them. His character was calm, but firm and decisive at the right moment.

- A. S. Novikov-Surf. Tsushima

• May 16, 1905 - During a single battle, the cruisers with the Japanese took command after being severely wounded by the commander , stopped the rebellion of the sailors rescued from the sunken battleship Oslyabya , broke away from the enemy and sank the ship that lost its combat capability at about the island, so that he would not get to the enemy. Captured by the Japanese.

Blokhin, commanding the ship, stood pulling his cap on the rear bridge, heavy and stiff, like a monument. His gray, unblinking eyes hardened, staring intently ahead into the shadow strip of the island. It seemed that he had gathered all the strength of his will in one tight knot to withstand these last minutes, deciding the fate ... Oslabians could no longer withstand the growing horror: the tension of human nerves has its limit. But the commander of the composition could not allow a riot during the battle, and even on the ship, which was already exhausted in an unequal battle. Blokhin, descending from the bridge, immediately mobilized officers, conductors and noncomors. Amid what went on around insanity, he began to dispose of the amazing stone serenity that bold animal handlers possess. And began to pacify the crowd under the roar of their guns, under the explosions of shells, in the smoke and flame of fires. They were beating on the face with what they got, not only the Oslab sailors, but also their officers. They were again sent from the hoses by strong jets of water, they were fired from revolvers. It all seemed more like delirium, like a nightmare, than like reality. Fortunately for Blokhin, only a part of people managed to escape from the residential deck, and the rest were stuck in the hatches, scoring them with their bodies. One way or another, but the order is put on a cruiser.

• 1906 - commander of the training ship "Asia".
• 1909 - Head of the 2nd Division of the destroyers of the Mine Division of the Baltic Sea.
• 1909 - Head of the 7th battalion of destroyers of the 2nd Mine Division of the Baltic Sea.
• March 29, 1909 - Captain 1st rank (VP number 897).
• 1909-5 August 1912 - Commander of the cruiser " Russia ".
• January 21, 1913 - Dismissed with production in rear admirals .
• February 10, 1913 - Died in St. Petersburg , buried at the Smolensk Orthodox cemetery .

• Order of St. George of the 4th degree (08.01.1907) for participation in the battle with the Japanese fleet on the 14th and 15th of May 1905.
• A light bronze medal on the St. George and Alexander Ribbon in memory of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. (1906)
• Badge commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Marine Corps (1901)

• Emelin A. Yu. The Sea Cadet Corps in the memories of pupils. St. Petersburg, 2003.

• Blokhin Konstantin Platonovich