Nikolai Yevmenov

Nikolai Anatolyevich Yevmenov (, born 2 April 1962) is a Russian admiral who served as the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy from 2019 to 2024. He is currently the director of the N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy.

Biography

Yevmenov was born on 2 April 1962 in Moscow. He studied at the Higher Naval School of Submarine Navigation between 1980 and 1987, after which he was appointed commander of the electronic navigation department of the navigation unit (BCh-1) of a nuclear submarine in the Pacific Fleet from 1987 to 1991.

According to Izvestia he was replaced as commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy by Aleksandr Moiseyev; this was confirmed on 19 March 2024, by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.

He was appointed the director of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy.

Sanctions In February 2022, Yevmenov was put on the European Union sanctions list for being "responsible for actively supporting and implementing actions and policies that undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine as well as the stability or security in Ukraine." He was also sanctioned by the UK government on 15 March 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Awards Order of Alexander Nevsky (2016) Order of Military Merit (Russia) (2006) Order of Naval Merit (Russia) (2015)