Feliks Gromov

{{Infobox military person

| honorific_prefix=Admiral of the Fleet

| name = Feliks Gromov

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|8|29}}

| birth_place = Vladivostok, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|1|22|1937|8|29}}

| death_place =

| placeofburial = Federal Military Memorial Cemetery

| image = Admiral of the fleet Feliks Nikolayevich Gromov3.jpg

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| nickname =

| allegiance = {{USSR}} (to 1991)
{{RUS}}

| branch = {{navy|USSR}}
{{navy|RUS}}

| serviceyears = 1955–1997

| rank = Admiral of the Fleet

| commands = Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy
Northern Fleet

| awards = Order of Merit for the Fatherland
Order of Military Merit
Order of the October Revolution
Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 1st & second class

| laterwork =

}}

Feliks Nikolayevich Gromov ({{langx|ru|Феликс Николаевич Громов}}; 29 August 1937 – 22 January 2021)[https://ria.ru/20210123/admiral-1594270617.html Умер экс-главком ВМФ России Феликс Громов] {{in lang|ru}} was a Russian Navy admiral of the fleet who was Commander-in-Chief of the Navy from 1992 to 1997.{{Cite web |last=Dalziel |first=Stephen |title=Russian President sacks navy chief |date=8 November 1997 |work=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/despatches/europe/25749.stm }}

Early life and education

Gromov was born in Vladivostok and joined the navy in 1955. He completed the S.O. Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School in 1959.

Military career

He served as an officer on a destroyer and in 1961 served in the strategic missile troops on an exchange programme. Gromov returned to the navy in 1962 and served on the {{sclass|Sverdlov|cruiser|1}} {{ship|Soviet cruiser|Admiral Senyavin||2}} and the {{sclass2|Kotlin|destroyer|1}} Vdokhnovennyy. He subsequently commanded the cruisers Senyavin and Dmitriy Pozharsky.

In 1977 Gromov became commander of a squadron of surface ships in the Baltic Fleet and was transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet in 1982. In 1984 he became deputy commander of the Soviet Northern Fleet and was promoted to its commander in 1988.

In 1992 Gromov was given command of the Russian Navy following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet by Boris Yeltsin in 1996 and retired on 7 November 1997 at age 60, the mandated retirement age for Admirals and Fleet Admirals.

The Jamestown Foundation speculated that Gromov was dismissed because of a Russian Pacific Fleet ammunition explosion which seems to have attracted wide attention. He died in his dacha and was buried at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery.

References

Sources

https://web.archive.org/web/20061021000536/http://www.jamestown.org/email-to-friend.php?article_id=3219
{{Note|bio}} Morskoy sbornik, No. 4, April 1992, p. 13.

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|title=Commander of the Northern Fleet

|before=Ivan Kapitanets

|years=1988–1992

|after=Oleg Yerofeyev

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|title=Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy

|before=Vladimir Chernavin
{{small|as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy}}

|years=1992–1997

|after=Vladimir Kuroyedov

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