Admiral Fleet. Semen Mikhailovich Lobov

Over 45 years of service in the Navy, the fleet Admiral S. M. Lobov passed all three levels of combat administration-tactical, operational-tactical, operational-strategic. He commanded a destroyer, cruiser, battleship, destroyers division, cruisers division, Northern Fleet squadron, the northern fleet - the main and most powerful operational -strategic association of the USSR Navy. As the fleet commander, his outstanding professional qualities manifested itself in full force. The first of the commanders of the fleets of the Soviet Navy was awarded to him the military rank of the Admiral of the Fleet. S. M. Lobov realized in practice the idea of ​​the Commander -in -Chief S. G. Gorshkov to use the forces of constant readiness in a new form of daily activities - in the form of a combat service, which fundamentally changed the military -political situation in the most important areas of the world ocean. Under his command, the Northern Fleet became a heterogeneous ocean missile -nuclear - the main carrier of the naval strategic nuclear forces of the USSR. The authority of the Admiral of the Navy S. M. Lobov was huge and unquestioned among everyone - from sailors to the highest leadership of the country. The sailors shouted "Hurray" during the announcement of the fleet on his appointment to the post of commander of the Northern Fleet