Vasily Yeryomin

Vasily Petrovich Yeryomin (; 2 January 1943 — 30 June 2020) was an officer of the Soviet and Russian Navies. He reached the rank of admiral, and served as a deputy commander in chief of the Russian Navy between 1992 and 1995, and head of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy from 1995 to 2003.

Biography Yeryomin was born on 2 January 1943 in the village of , Bondarsky District, Tambov Oblast, in what was then the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union. On being assigned to the fleet he was made commander of an anti-aircraft battery aboard the Kotlin-class destroyer Naporisty, but by October 1967, he was commander of the mine-torpedo department of the Kashin-class destroyer Soobrazitelny, in the Black Sea Fleet's 21st Anti-Submarine Ship Brigade. This was followed by the posts of executive officer of the destroyer Komsomolets Ukrainy from January 1974, and then her commander from December 1974. Komsomolets Ukrainy was at this time also part of the 21st Anti-Submarine Ship Brigade. From 1979, he was chief of staff, and then from July 1983, commander of the . In October 1984, he was appointed commander of the Black Sea Fleet's . In 2000 he co-authored the monograph Naval Education in Russia. He was buried in the city's Serafimovskoe Cemetery on 2 July 2020.

Honours and awards Over his career Yeryomin received the Order of Military Merit in 1996, the Order of the Red Star in 1991, the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" third class in 1975 and second class in 1985, and various other medals. He also received personalized weapons in 1993, and 2002. He was a candidate of military sciences from 1999, with the title of professor from 2002.