Feliks Gromov

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Feliks Nikolayevich Gromov
Born	(1937-08-29) August 29, 1937 Vladivostok, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Soviet Union, Russia
Service/branch	Soviet Navy, Russian Navy
Years of service	1955-1997
Rank	Admiral of the Fleet
Commands held	Russian Navy
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

Fleet Admiral Feliks Nikolayevich Gromov (Russian: Феликс Николаевич Громов; born August 29, 1937, Vladivostok) is a former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy. Gromov is married and has a daughter and a son.

Gromov was born in Vladivostok and joined the navy in 1955. He completed the S.O. Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School in 1959. He served as an officer on a destroyer and in 1961 served in the strategic rocket forces on an exchange programme. Gromov returned to the navy in 1962 and served on the Sverdlov class cruiser Admiral Senyavin and the Kotlin class destroyer Vdokhnovennyy. He subsequently commanded the cruisers Senyavin and the Dmitry 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 in 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.

Military offices
Preceded by None (Vladimir Chernavin, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy)	Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy 1992 – November 1997	Succeeded by Vladimir Kuroyedov

Sources

http://jamestown.org/email-to-friend.php?article_id=3219
^ Morskoy sbornik, No. 4, April 1992, p. 13.

v t e Admirals of the Fleet of the Soviet Navy and Russian Navy

Admirals of the Fleet of the Soviet Union	Kuznetsov Isakov Gorshkov

Admiral of the Fleet, Soviet Union	Kasatanov Lobov Sergeyev Yegorov Smirnov Chernavin Sorokin Kapitanets Makarov

Admirals of the Fleet, Russia	Gromov Kuroyedov Masorin

Persondata
Name	Gromov, Feliks
Alternative names
Short description	Soviet admiral
Date of birth	August 29, 1937
Place of birth	Vladivostok, Soviet Union
Date of death
Place of death

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