Putin appointed new commander in chief of the Russian Navy
At a selector conference on Wednesday, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu read a decree of the Russian president on the appointment of Admiral Nikolai Evmenov as the new commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy. Also, this decree appointed new commanders of the two fleets - the Northern and Black Sea.
- read Shoigu Putin’s decree.
Congratulating Evmenov on his appointment to the new position, Shoigu noted that former Russian fleet commander-in-chief Admiral Vladimir Korolev, after 46 years of service, went on a well-deserved rest, going to work at the United Shipbuilding Corporation.
- said the Minister of Defense.
The new commander-in-chief of the Navy, Nikolai Evmenov, was born in 1962 in Moscow and graduated from the N. Kuznetsov Higher Naval School of Diving named after the Lenin Komsomol and the Naval Academy named after the Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union.
He served on the K-490 and K-506 submarines as a senior assistant, and then as a commander. After the Academy, the General Staff was the commander of the 25 division of submarines, then the commander of the Submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet. In 2012, he moved to the position of chief of staff of the Northern Fleet, and in 2016 he headed the Federation Council.
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