Kiverov, Sergey Yakovlevich

Born on September 15, 1884 in Ochakovo, Kherson province, in the family of artillery colonel Yakov Fedorovich Kiverov (b. 8.10.1856) and his wife Anna Nikolaevna. The younger brother of Sergei - George (born 1897) became an artillery officer ^[1] .

Service in the Russian Imperial Navy

In service since 1893. He graduated from the Polotsk Cadet Corps in 1902. September 14, 1902 he entered the shipbuilding department of the Technical School of the Maritime Department in Kronstadt . On May 9, 1906, after graduation, he was promoted to ship midshipman-shipbuilder . In 1906-1907 he was at shipbuilding in the St. Petersburg port, made a ten-month training voyage around Europe. April 16, 1907 promoted to second lieutenant of the Marine Engineers Corps (CCI). April 30, 1907 was seconded to the port office of the port of Emperor Alexander III ^{[2] [3]} .

On May 9, 1907, he was enrolled as a student in the Officer's diving class in Libau , after which, on December 7 of the same year, he became a diving officer. In 1908, he supervised the dismantling of three Karp -type submarines, sending them from Libava by rail, and assembling them in Sevastopol . From 1908 to 1909 he was a detachment ship engineer of the Black Sea scuba diving unit, then he was appointed senior assistant shipbuilder of the Vladivostok port. March 29, 1909 promoted to lieutenant . Since May 1909 he served in the submarine detachment of the Vladivostok port. Until January 1910, he was the assistant commander of the Trout submarine, then until January 1912, he was the senior assistant of the Som submarine. April 10, 1911 was promoted to headquarters captain of the KKI. From 1912 to 1913 - was a ship engineer of the submarine division of the Siberian Flotilla ^[1] .

In March 1913 he left for Sevastopol to fulfill the post of senior assistant shipbuilder of the Sevastopol port. In February 1914, he became the junior shipbuilder of the Sevastopol port and assigned to sail in the submarine division of the Black Sea. From May 1914 to April 1915 he was observing in the shipbuilding part the construction of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet . I participated in the completion of the mine crab " Crab " in Nikolaev at the shipyard " Naval " and sea trials of the submarine. March 22, 2015 "for excellent zealous service and special work caused by the situation of war" was promoted to captain of the KKI, with seniority from January 1, 1915. From June 1915 to April 1918 he was the flagship ship engineer of the headquarters of the commander of the Black Sea submarine brigade. In 1915-1917 he taught a course in the theory of the submarine in officer diving courses ^[1] .

Service at the Naval Ministry of the Ukrainian State

From May to September 1918 he was in the reserve of ranks of the fleet, and then was seconded by a ship engineer to the headquarters of the government of the Maritime Ministry of the Ukrainian State ^[1] .

White Fleet Service

During the Civil War in Russia , from November 1918, he served in the White Black Sea Fleet of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia . Consisted of guarding the submarine division, was an assistant to the chief of the shipbuilding department of the submarine headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet. He served as the flagship scuba diving specialist at the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet, was an inspector of the factories of the Maritime Department, a senior teacher of the Marine Engineering School in Sevastopol. March 28, 1920 was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Marine Engineers Corps. After the evacuation of white troops from the Crimea, he remained in Sevastopol ^[1] .

In Soviet times

From 1921 to 1923 he was the head of the shipbuilding department of the technical department of the Sevastopol port, oversaw the lifting operations of the Black Sea Fleet. March 17, 1923 he was dismissed from service, with enrollment in the fleet.

In 1923 he moved to Moscow. He worked in the Russian management of metal trading ^[4] .

September 11, 1924 was arrested under Art. 58-10.12 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for "harboring the Ion brothers, shareholders of an English company." On October 28, 1927, a special meeting at the OGPU board sentenced Kiverov to three years of forced labor camps. He served his sentence in the ELEPHANT - Solovetsky special purpose camp . May 23, 1930, after being released from the camp, was sent to Arkhangelsk for a period of 3 years ^[5] . There he worked as an engineer at a ship repair plant, taught at a factory student’s school, taught lectures at advanced training courses for boiler workers and foundry workers, and led the classes of students at the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers who completed practical training in Arkhangelsk ^[4] .

In 1931 he moved to Syktyvkar . He worked as an engineer at a shipyard, at the same time being a teacher at the school of FZU vodnikov. Then he taught at the construction and thermo-electromechanical technical schools, and lectured at courses of naval mechanics. He prepared a series of lectures on the history of scuba diving and the theoretical foundations of the construction of submarines, the history of shipbuilding and shipping in the North. September 1, 1933 became a teacher of the basics of production at the Komi Pedagogical Institute , formed in 1932. At the initial stage, he taught classes in mathematics in preparatory courses. July 16, 1934, due to the lack of academic workload in the specialty, quit the Komi Pedagogical Institute ^[4] .

Sergei Yakovlevich was married to Natalya Pavlovna (nee Lazareva), a hereditary honorary citizen. The family had two children: son George (04.20.1915 -?) And daughter Larisa (02.24.1915 -?) ^[1] .

He died in 1942. Rehabilitated posthumously on May 25, 1995 ^[1] .

• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd degree (1914);
• Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree (October 5, 1915);
• Order of St. Stanislav 2nd degree (1916);
• light bronze medal "In memory of the 200th anniversary of the naval battle of Gangut" (1915) ^[2] .