KIREEV Grigory Petrovich

Grigory Petrovich Kireev (1890 - 29.7.1938), leader of the Navy, the flagship of the fleet of rank 2 (1937). Educated at the Naval Academy (1933). Participant 1 WWI. In 1917, he served in the Navy, joined the Bolsheviks. In 1918 joined the RKP (b) and the Red Fleet. In 1918, the beginning. detachment of special appointment with the Council of Commissioners of the Baltic Fleet. He had brought the ships of the Baltic Fleet's main base in Helsingfors, later in Soviet propaganda, this operation is called "ice hike". Since 1923 member of the Revolutionary Military Council (PBC), the naval forces of the Black and Azov Seas. In 1926-31 a member of the PBC and the beginning. Political Administration of the Baltic Fleet. Since 1933 the commander and commissar of the Caspian Flotilla, then assistant. and deputy. commander, from 1937 - Commander, Pacific Fleet, summoned to Moscow and arrested on 10.1.1938. 29/7/1938 sentenced to death. Shot. In 1956, rehabilitated.