Kournikov, Lev Andreevich

The son of a worker. In the fleet from the age of 15 (since 1922). According to the Komsomol appeal, he was sent to study. In 1928 he graduated from the VMU. Frunze (now the St. Petersburg Naval Institute ), along with most of the future admirals Golovko, Platonov and others. Then in 1928-1929 - the Sevastopol School of Naval Pilots, where he received his specialty - naval observer pilot (navigator-navigator) of the BSF bomber aviation . In 1929-1930 he served as a sea pilot of the 60th separate air squadron of the Black Sea Fleet. In 1930-1931 he graduated from the mine class of special courses for command personnel of the Red Army Navy

After completing special courses, he was appointed to the post of commander of the mine sector of the destroyer Frunze . Since December 1931 - a divisional torpedo , and since December 1932 after the successful passing of exams in the training unit of scuba diving them. Kirov was appointed the flagship torpedo of the submarine brigade. In 1932-1933 - the flagship of the 2nd Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet .

Since November 1933 in the submarine fleet, commander of a number of submarines.

In February 1936 he became the first commander of the submarine " L-8 " Dzerzhinets "." In April 1938 he was appointed commander of the 42nd division of the Pacific Fleet. But after three months he was repressed.

In August 1938 he was arrested by the NKVD . Until February 1939 he was under investigation, after which he was released and reinstated in the Navy. The charge against him was dropped.

In May 1939, he took the post of commander of the 43rd submarine division of the Pacific Fleet . In 1941 he graduated from the Naval Academy and in April of that year, with the rank of captain of the 2nd rank, he became chief of staff of the 1st submarine brigade of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet .

Member of World War II. In the first year and a half of the war, the enemy lost 49 transports from the operations of the KBF submarines and, supposedly, 13 more. ^[1]

In 1942-1945 - commander of a submarine brigade in the Baltic. April 18, 1945 - the commander of the brigade of all Baltic submarines.

The commander of the submarine unit of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet as part of the consolidated regiment of the Navy at the Victory Parade (June 24, 1945).

In June 1947, L. A. Kournikov was the deputy commander, and since April 1951, the commander of the Red Banner Training Diving Unit named after S. M. Kirov (KUOPP), subsequently the 1st Red Banner Submarine Brigade based in Liepaja .

In April 1957 he was appointed deputy chief of the Naval Academy for military scientific work.

Having retired by age at the end of 1970, since 1973 he was chairman of the Baltic Veterans Submarine Council. The author of the memoirs “Baltic Submarines” (St. Petersburg, 2012. Part 1).

He was buried at the Serafimovsky cemetery in St. Petersburg.

• Order of Lenin (11/06/1947 - No. 64860,)
• four orders of the Red Banner (02.27.1943 - No. 48281, 11/03/1944 - No. 121642, 08.21.1953, 02.22.1968)
• Order of Ushakov, II degree (02/08/1945 - No. 207)
• Order of Nakhimov, II degree (05.24.1945 - No. 288)
• Order of the Patriotic War of 1 degree (04/06/1985)
• USSR medals.
• registered weapon (1957)
• registered marine binoculars 10x50 (01.16.1967)
• nominal wristwatch “Flight” (01/16/1970)

• List of admirals, vice admirals, rear admirals of the USSR Navy (1940-1945)

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