Kasatonov Vladimir Biography

Born on July 8 on July 8 in the city of Peterhof of the St. Petersburg province now within the line of St. Petersburg. In the year he graduated from high school in his hometown. In the Navy since October. In February, he graduated from the M. Frunze Naval School in Leningrad now St. Petersburg. In April - November, he served as a watchman and navigator on the Bolshevik submarine Baltic Fleet.

In May, he graduated from the commander classes of the training squad of scuba diving in Leningrad. Until December, he continued to serve in the Baltic Fleet as an assistant commander of the commissar submarine. In January - October - the commander of the Division of the submarines of the Pacific Fleet. In April, he graduated from the team faculty of the Naval Academy, after which he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of a separate division of submarines of the S.

Kirov training unit in Leningrad. Member of the Great Patriotic War: in June - August - chief of staff of a separate training division of submarines of the Baltic Fleet. He participated in the defense of Leningrad. Since August, he served in the Main Naval Staff of the Navy in the posts: the senior commander of the 5th department of August-April, the head of the 5th department of April-August, the head of the 4th department of August-November and the head of the 6th department of November-December of the operational management.

He was engaged in the study and analysis of the situation in the Far East, as well as the introduction of the experience of current fleets in the combat training of the Pacific Fleet. He took part in the Yalta Crimean Conference in February. In December - January - the chief of staff of the Kronstadt Marine Defensive District of the Baltic Fleet. Then he served in the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces by the head of the Marine Department of the Main Operational Department February-June and assistant chief of the Main Operational Directorate for the Navy-the head of the naval department of June-October since October-chief of staff-1st deputy commander of the 5th Navy, the city of Vladivostok, in April-December-the chief of staff-1st deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet.

In December-December-commander of the 8th Navy of the North Baltic Fleet, in December-February-commander of the Black Sea Fleet, in February-June-commander of the Northern Fleet. During the years of his command, the Soviet nuclear submarines first reached the expanses of the Atlantic, made swimming to the North Pole, passed under the ice of the Arctic and through the Bering pouring into the base of the Pacific Fleet.

In the year, V. Kasatonov led the complex teaching of the Navy Aviation under the conditional name “flurry” at the Novozero -Zemelsky training ground, during which the aviation anti -submarine winged missile to personally participated in many campaigns of atomic submarines, and in the year he headed the campaign of the atomic submarine “K” commander Yu. Sysoev to the North Pole, which for the first time had for the first time on September 29 Exactly at the northern top of the planet.

Made a great contribution to strengthening the combat readiness of the USSR Navy, testing new ships and studying the conditions for the actions of the fleet forces in the Arctic areas, took an active part in the creation of the oceanic nuclear regional fleet. He headed a number of military-diplomatic missions-the first of the Soviet military leaders in the post-war years visited Yugoslavia, Albania and the USA.

Since September, Admiral of Fleet V. He lived in Moscow. He died on June 9th. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery. He was awarded 3 orders of Lenin in his name streets in the village of Shchepkin Aksaysky District of the Rostov Region and the village of Leski Prokhorovsky District of the Belgorod Region. In Moscow, at the house in which V. Kasatonov lived, in Peterhof on the building of the school in which he studied, as well as in Sevastopol and Vladivostok, memorial boards were installed.

In the village of Belenikhino, Prokhorovsky district of the Belgorod region, a Museum of the Kasatonov military dynasty was created. Military titles:.