Serguéi Gorshkov

Admiral Sergéi Georgievich Gorshkov Сергей Георгиевич Горшков (* February 6, 1910 - † May 13, 1988) was a Soviet naval officer, who commanded the largest expansion of the Soviet Union Navy among the world's navy.

He was born in the town of Kamianets-Podilskyi, in the Oblast of Jmelnitski, Ukraine. He joined the Navy in 1927, graduating from the Military School of Frunze in 1931, managing to be designated commander of surface units in the Black Sea the following year. During World War II it was distinguished by landings in the peninsula of Kerch and for commanding a unit of destroyers. He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Navy in 1956 by Nikita Khrushchev, and under Leonid Brezhnev's government oversaw the creation of a gigantic fleet of submarines and surface ships capable of competing against the naval power of the West in the late 1990s. 1970 placing the Navy of the Soviet Union in the vanguard in the naval power equating its homologous of United States.

On October 28, 1967 he was promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Soviet Union Fleet, the third and last of them. This rank was comparable to that of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

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