Vitaly Ivanov

Vitaly Pavlovich Ivanov (; 12 August 1935 — 27 October 2024) was an officer of the Soviet and later Russian Navy. He held the rank of admiral, and served as commander of the Baltic Fleet between 1985 and 1991, and as head of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy between 1991 and 1995.

Biography Ivanov was born on 12 August 1935 in the village of Poltava, Kharkiv Oblast, in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union. He completed seven years of secondary school, before entering the Saratov Naval Preparatory School in December 1950. He was then posted to the Northern Fleet, where he served as a torpedo group commander aboard the Whiskey-class submarine S-362, then head of the mine and torpedo crew of the submarine from December 1958. In February 1962, he was appointed assistant commander of the S-282, and then senior assistant commander on the submarine S-365. He was head of the Naval Academy during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, transferring into the succeeding Russian Navy, until his retirement in December 1995. Ivanov died in St George's Hospital on 27 October 2024, at the age of 89.

Honours and awards Over his career Ivanov received the Order of the Red Star, the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" second and third classes, and various other medals.