Russian admiral

Vladimir Masorin

Admiral of the Fleet Vladimir Vasilyevich Masorin is a retired Russian naval officer who was Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy from 2005 to 2007. He was previously the Chief of the Main Staff and First Deputy Commander-in-Chief in 2005, and commanded the Black Sea Fleet from 2002 to 2005 and the Caspian Flotilla from 1996 to 2002. He was commissioned from the Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School in Crimea in 1970, and commanded two destroyers, a destroyer brigade, and a squadron before reaching higher command. Masorin also graduated from the Grechko Naval Academy and the Russian General Staff Academy.

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1947

August 24

Died

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1940s

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1947 Born

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The world in 1947

When Vladimir arrived

april 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
april 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
april 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
april 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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