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"As a person, I have great admiration for Gorshkov's talents, and the development of the Soviet Navy to the point it is today is the result of his genius leadership. ”

Former US Secretary of the Navy John Lehmann, Jr.

Gorshkov, military strategist, Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy, Marshal of the USSR Navy, Hero of the Soviet Union (May 7, 1965).

Born in Ukraine on February 6, 1910. In 1942, he joined the Communist Party of Brazzaville. In 1927 he joined the USSR Navy.

He graduated from the Frunze Naval School (1931), the destroyer captain training course (1937) and the senior commander training course at the Naval Academy (1941). In 1931 he served as destroyer captain in the Black Sea Fleet. 1932 In 1939, he served in the Pacific Fleet as captain of a frigate, captain of a destroyer, and captain of a destroyer detachment.

In June 1940, he was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet as the commander of the cruiser detachment.

Gorshkov participated in the Battle of Odessa, the Kerch-Feodosia landing, the Battle of Novorossiysk, the Battle of the Caucasus, the Battle of the Crimea, the Battle of Iasi-Kishinev, etc., and led the Danube District Fleet to support the liberation struggle of some Eastern European countries against the German invaders. After the war, he served as Chief of Staff and Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, and First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. In January 1956, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of the USSR.

During his term of office, he vigorously developed strategic missile submarines and long-range aviation, and at the same time developed other naval arms in a balanced manner, and developed the Soviet Navy from a coastal defense force into an "ocean-going missile nuclear navy" capable of carrying out various combat missions, thus playing an important role in the construction and development of the Soviet Navy. In the 70s, twice commanded the USSR Navy to conduct large-scale exercises in the world's oceans. In December 1985, he was appointed General Inspector General of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.

Gorshkov served as commander-in-chief of the Navy for nearly 30 years, and during the four Soviet leaders of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko, he was awarded five orders of Lenin and many medals of various decorations, and a "Kiev"-class aircraft carrier was named after him. A lofty title known as the "Soviet military strategist". His influence on the Soviet Navy was enormous, and he is called the father of the modern Soviet Navy.

He advocated an ocean-going attack and a struggle for maritime supremacy with the United States, which was in line with the Cold War mentality of the Soviet Union and the United States at that time. Gorshkov also wrote many works on military theory, and was an accomplished military theorist and strategic thinker. In such works as "The Navy in War Years and in Time of Peace" and "The Maritime Power of the State", Gorshkov for the first time made a scientific and comprehensive exposition of the overall positioning and development strategy of the Soviet Union's maritime power.

His military ideas such as "strategic use of the Navy", "active offensive", and "balancing the Navy" are still an important part of the Russian Navy's military academic theory. Gorshkov was highly regarded by Western naval circles, comparing him to Alfred Thayer Mahan, the author of "On Sea Power", and hailing him as the "Red Mahan".