Filipp Oktyabrsky, Commander of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet

Filipp Oktyabrsky, Commander of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet

Mar 21, 2018 #Red Army

Filipp Oktyabrsky

 

Commander of the Black Sea Fleet of the Red Navy, Soviet Admiral Filipp Oktyabrsky during Great Patriotic War of the Russian Nation.
Commanding the Black Sea Fleet, at the same time in 1941-1942, Filipp Oktyabrsky was the commander of the Sevastopol Defense District, he directed the heroic defense of Sevastopol. He is often criticized for the fact that on the night of July 1, 1942, when the position of city defenders became hopeless, with the permission of the Supreme Headquarters of the Supreme Command of the USSR, he was evacuated by plane, and did not remain in the besieged city and was not captured.

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