Nikolai Vinogradov

Nikolai Ignatevich Vinogradov ( – 27 April 1979) was an officer of the Soviet Navy who rose to the rank of admiral.

Born in 1905, Vinogradov joined the navy in 1925 and graduated from various naval courses to serve in staff and seagoing positions. Specialising in submarine warfare, he commanded several submarines, before taking command of a submarine brigade during the Soviet-Finnish War. By the German invasion of Russia in 1941, Vinogradov was in command of the submarine forces of the Northern Fleet. Soviet submarines scored a number of success during the war, reflecting on Vinogradov's organisational skills, and various staff appointments and promotions followed. He commanded the Kamchatka Flotilla with later postings including Chief of the Directorate of the Navy for Personnel and Naval Educational Institutions, Chief of Weapons and Shipbuilding of the Navy and Assistant Chief of the General Staff for the and Navy before his retirement in 1968.

Vinogradov died in 1979, with his memoirs posthumously published in 1989. His awards included two Orders of Lenin, five Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Ushakov First Class and the Order of the Red Star. Among the tributes he received after his death was the naming of the Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Vinogradov.

Early career The submarine in Sevastopol in the early 1930s. Vinogradov served on her in 1931 as navigator. Vinogradov was born on in the village of , located in the present-day Sharyinsky District of Kostroma Oblast. His father was a sailor in the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy, and Nikolai Vinogradov joined the Soviet Navy in 1925, graduating from the M.V. Frunze Naval School in Leningrad in 1930. He took command courses for submarine training in 1932, and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1939. He had been a member of the Communist Party since 1930. The fleet's submarines destroyed or damaged 108 enemy ships during Vinogradov's tenure, with five awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and four receiving the title of "Guards". Five of his captains, , N. A. Lunin, , I. I. Fisanovich and M. I. Gadzhiyev, were the first Soviet submariners of the Second World War to receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.