Biographies of naval breeders

Years of life: February 24 - October 14, country: Russian Empire Field of activity: history and society, military leader Fedor Fedorovich Ushakov - the great Russian navy. During the command of the fleet, he did not lose a single ship, not a single sailor under his leadership was captured. Admiral Ushakov was a marine figure, who brought the glory to the then young Black Sea Fleet.

The Turks called him “Ushak-Pasha” with respect. Ushakov was born on February 13 24, or, according to other sources, a year. He graduated from the Marine Cadet Corps, served in the Baltic Fleet, and participated in the Russian Azov Flotilla in the Russian-Turkish war-years. He was appointed commander of the Modon cannon ship, one of the largest in the Azov Flotilla. Since the year, Ushakov commanded a frigate.

In the year, he was appointed commander of the imperial yacht, but soon refused the court career. And in the years he commanded the battleship, which guarded the Russian merchant ships from the pirated actions of the English fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. Since the year in the Black Sea Fleet, he watched the construction of ships in Kherson, participated in the construction of the main base in Sevastopol.

At the beginning of the Russo-Turkish war-F. Ushakov commanded the battleship "St. Paul". In a battle near the island of Fidonisi, commanding the vanguard of the squadron, Ushakov defeated the superior forces of the Turks and was produced in the Rear Admirals in the year. In March, the brightest prince Potemkin-Tauride appointed him the commander of the Black Sea Fleet. From this moment, the true combat formation of this fleet began, its glorious combat traditions began to be laid.

Having commanded the Black Sea Fleet, Ushakov won brilliant victories over the Turkish fleet in the Kerch Sea Battle, near the island of Tendra and at Cape Kaliacaria, resorting to a new maneuverable tactic created by him, which was fundamentally different from linear tactics accepted at that time. Its main features were the use of unified gait-combat orders, a decisive rapprochement with the enemy to a short distance without the rebuild of the battle order, the concentration of the main efforts against the flagship ships of the enemy, the allocation of the reserve of the Kaiser-Flag squadron, a combination of aimed artillery fire and maneuver, and pursuit of its destruction or captivity.

Attaching great importance to the marine and fire training of personnel, Ushakov was a supporter of the Suvorov principles of the education of subordinates. In the year, Fedor Fedorovich Ushakov was promoted to Vice Admirals. During the Mediterranean campaign - he again proved himself as a large navy, a skilled politician and diplomat, especially when creating the Greek Republic of seven islands under the protectorate of Russia and Turkey.

Ushakov demonstrated samples of the organization of the interaction of the army and navy when mastering the Ionical Islands and especially the islands of Corfu, when the Italian is liberated from the French, during the blockade of Ancona and Genoa, and the capture of Nepolla and Rome. In the year, the Ushakova squadron returned to Sevastopol. Ushakov’s merits were not appreciated by Alexander I, who appointed him to the secondary position of the chief commander of the Baltic Groke Fleet and the head of the naval teams in St.

Petersburg. In the year, Ushakov resigned and went to his estate in Tambovshchina. The admiral replied: “My spiritual feelings and sorrows, who had exhausted the fortress of strength, health, are known to the message of the emperor, who wished to find out about the true reasons for his dismissal from the service. I accept everything that happened to me with the deepest blessing.

” During the Patriotic War of the year, Ushakov was elected the head of the militia of the Tambov province, but due to illness he abandoned his post. He died in his estate and was buried in the Sinaxary Monastery near the city of Temnikov.

The name of Ushakov named the Bay in the southeastern part of the Barents Sea and Cape on the North Coast of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. The name of Ushakov was wore combat ships of the Russian and Soviet Navy. In the year, he was considered to be the saints as the righteous warrior Theodore Ushakov. In publications.