Vlasyev, Sergey Nikolaevich

Of the nobles , the son of Rear Admiral Nikolai Vsevolodovich Vlasyev (1837-1911) and Varvara Ivanovna Vlasyeva, nee Pisarevskaya. He graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps (1900), a course at the Naval Training and Rifle Command (1902), and the Mine Officer Class (1903). A student of the inventor of the radio A. S. Popov (he delivered the “Popov - Ducreta” radio station to Port Arthur , according to some reports, 3 days before the battle of the Varyag with the Japanese squadron, an attempt was made to communicate between the cruiser and Port Arthur). ^[one]

Russo-Japanese War

Since 1903, in Port Arthur , the midshipman , a senior mine officer at the Yenisei mine layer. On the second day of the Russo-Japanese War, when setting up a minefield in Talievan Bay , on the outskirts of the port of Dalniy , the Yenisei was demolished by the current into its mines, exploded and sank, a commander, three officers and 92 crew members were killed. S. N. Vlasyev was seriously wounded, saved, and soon he was transferred to the battleship “Peresvet”. The junior mine officer of the squadron battleship “Tsesarevich” (February 6 - April 9, 1904), then “Victory” “... with the installation of new wireless telegraph stations, arriving from Russia ...”, on April 28, 1904 he was sent to install such a station in Liaoteshan. He participated in the trawling of the Port Arthur raid on mine steam boats of the Victory squadron battleship. He participated in hostilities at sea, several times volunteered to set minefields “from rafts”. He participated in the repair and modernization of the submarine of the Dzhevetsky system (commander Midshipman B.P. Dudorov), built in 1881 and delivered to Port Arthur in 1900 at the insistence of Rear Admiral V.K. Vitgeft . Vlasyev’s request to go to sea was rejected by Rear Admiral R.N. Viren . Not wanting to be inactive, he begged for himself a direction in the composition of the second naval landing. In the fall of 1904, as part of a crew of sailors, he was sent to the land front at Fort No. 2, and in September, together with the head of the artillery workshops of the fortress, Captain L. N. Gobyato, he invented the mortar and successfully used it. On the eve of the surrender of Port Arthur, S. N. Vlasyev on the night of January 2, 1905 broke through a mine boat into the Chinese port of Chifu .

For bravery in this war he was awarded: Order of St. Anne of the 4th degree with the inscription "For Courage", St. Stanislav of the 3rd degree with swords and a bow, St. Anna of the 3rd degree with swords and a bow, St. Vladimir of the 4th degree with swords and a bow and a silver medal in memory of the Russo-Japanese War.

The birth of the submarine

In 1906, among seven officers, he was selected to be a scuba diving training detachment (created on March 27, 1906, commander E.N. Shchensnovich ). From 1906, Vlasyev was the commander of the Mackerel submarine, and from 1907, the Peskar submarine. On December 7, 1907, with the rank of lieutenant, twenty-fifth was enrolled in the first list of diving officers.

The idea of ​​submarines did not find support in the leadership of the fleet, in particular, their opponent was Lieutenant Captain A. V. Kolchak : "The idea of ​​replacing a modern linear fleet with a submarine can only captivate military enthusiasts ... Specially mine or submarine fleet is a fictitious force ..." . At the end of 1907, Vlasyev defended the submarine fleet with the report “Report of the Peskar Submarine Commander on Navigation and Maneuvers,” and received the “highest” reprimand from Nicholas II for “interfering in the prerogatives that did not belong to him.” Nevertheless (the intercession of the largest Russian shipbuilder, academician A.N. Krylov, also helped) in 1907, Vlasyev was appointed commander of the Shark boat under construction, the largest and most modern at that time, and participated in the design of mine weapons. He owns the initiative of the group use of submarines in combat operations, the development of new combat techniques.

For his efforts in the development of scuba diving on April 18, 1910 he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav II degree . December 6, 1912 for the distinction in service, he was awarded the rank of captain of the 2nd rank. In 1914 he was awarded the breastplate of the defender of the Port Arthur fortress.

World War I

In World War I , commanding the Shark, he made several combat exits to the sea. On August 26 (September 8), 1914 the first attack of a Russian submarine (cap. S.N. Vlasyev) occurred in the First World War. The “Shark" fired one torpedo at the approaching destroyers, which made them move away and temporarily abandon the ramming strike. The Shark disappeared in 1915 under the command of one of the best Russian submariners N. A. Gudim (Gudin).

In March 1915, the commander of the Baltic Fleet awarded the captain of the 2nd rank Vlasyev "For the excellent performance of patrol service in the combat zone" with swords to the Order of St. Stanislav II degree . In 1915 he was appointed commander of the 5th submarine division of the Baltic Fleet. From the end of May 1915 he was appointed commander of the Narova miner, in August 1915 he was transferred to the transport fleet of the Black Sea Fleet, in 1916 in the 1st Baltic Fleet crew (these movements were the result of a misdemeanor, details of which are unknown).

Civil War

During the Civil War he was in the South of Russia in the Volunteer Army and Armed Forces of the South of Russia . In November 1918, he was the chief of naval defense of the Separate Odessa Volunteer Brigade. In January 1919, in Odessa, on the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia, the formation of the 2nd detachment of ships for action on rivers begins, in February the captain of the 2nd rank S.N. Vlasyev is appointed the chief of the detachment. In August 1919, in Sevastopol, he participated in the commission for the acceptance of ships of the Black Sea Fleet from allies. In orders for July 1920, he is referred to as captain of the 1st rank.

Emigration

In November 1920, the Doob evacuated from the Crimea to Constantinople , where he was a member of the Union of (Russian) naval officers. In November 1922, Captain 1st Rank S. N. Vlasyev led the passage of Russian minesweepers and tugs requisitioned by the French government from Constantinople to Marseille . Since 1923 he settled in Paris , worked as a taxi driver. In 1928, a member of the Naval Historical Circle in Paris, in 1932 he left the Wardroom in Paris to the Maritime Assembly. After the end of World War II in Paris, he received a Soviet passport. He died on September 3, 1955 and was buried in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois .

Father - Rear Admiral Nikolai Vsevolodovich, grandfather - Rear Admiral Vsevolod Alekseevich Vlasyev . 1st wife - Joanna Alexandrovna, nee Yang. 2nd wife - Maria Vasilievna, nee. Popova (1892-1972), in her first marriage she was behind Chizhov, had a daughter - Irina. From the first marriage, S. N. Vlasyev had three children: Nikolai, Tamara (1906-1996), Rostislav (1907-1986). There were no children in the 2nd marriage.

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