Filipp Oktyabrsky

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Soviet admiral (1899-1969)

PoliticiansLived 1899 to 1969 · aged 69

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Awards 20

Order of Lenin

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Order of the Red Banner

Hero of the Soviet Union

Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"

Order of Ushakov

Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

Order of Nakhimov

Order of the Red Star

Medal "For the Defence of Odessa"

Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol"

Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"

Commander of the Legion of Merit

Legionnaire of Legion of Merit

Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Order of 9 September 1944

Legion of Merit

Connected to Filipp 6

Ivan PapaninAlso won Order of Nakhimov

Antonín ZápotockýAlso won Order of 9 September 1944

Ivan IsakovAlso won Order of Ushakov

Nikolay Ivanovich KrylovAlso won Medal "For the Defence of Odessa"

Anatoly Petrovich AlexandrovAlso won Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol"

Alexander GorbatovAlso won Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

About this person

Filipp Sergeyevich Ivanov, more popularly known as Filipp Sergeyevich Oktyabrsky, was a Soviet naval commander. He began service in the Baltic Fleet in 1918. From 1925 to 1927 he studied at the Naval Academy in Leningrad. As vice-admiral he was given command of the Black Sea Fleet in March 1939 and headed its actions during the Sieges of Sevastopol (1941-1942) and Odessa (1941). After the war he became a Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, commander of all naval test centres and from 1957 to 1960 head of the Black Sea Higher Naval Institute "Admiral Pavel Nakhimov" in Sevastopol.