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From 1911 to 1914, he was the commander of the battleship Imperator Pavel I as part of the 2nd brigade of battleships of the Baltic Fleet. [5] With this position, Nebolsin was entrusted with the responsibility of fine-tuning and testing all the systems of the Imperator Pavel I , as well as training the crew with the new equipment.
In 1898 he was promoted to rear admiral and became commander of the gunnery school of the Baltic Fleet. In 1900 he commanded the salvage operation for the General Admiral Graf Apraksin . In 1902 he was appointed Chief of the Naval Staff and proposed a plan for strengthening the Imperial Russian Navy in the Far East.
But his work also left him with a lack of experience in commanding a fleet. [2] In September 1916 Russian naval leaders successfully pressured Emperor Nicholas II to relieve Admiral Vasily Kanin of command of the Baltic Fleet for his passivity and lax command style. Vice Admiral Nepenin was appointed in his place as commander of the Baltic Fleet.
A Russian submarine commander shot to death while jogging on Monday may have been targeted by an assailant tracking him on a popular running app, according to Russian media.
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The Baltic Fleet (Russian: Балтийский флот, romanized: Baltiyskiy flot) [3] is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea. Established 18 May 1703, under Tsar Peter the Great as part of the Imperial Russian Navy , the Baltic Fleet is the oldest Russian fleet. [ 4 ]
The missile strike that blasted the Crimean headquarters of Russia's navy last week killed 34 officers, including the fleet commander, Ukraine said Monday, though it provided no evidence to ...
Viktor Viktorovich Chirkov, Admiral, Commander of the Baltic Fleet (2009-2012), Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy (2012-2016) Grigoriy Pavlovich Chukhnin , Vice admiral , commander of the Black Sea Fleet during the 1905 Russian Revolution and battleship Potemkin mutiny until his assassination in 1906.