Chronopulo Admiral Biography

Anyone who served with him in the period for a year knows that in the most difficult for the country of the last century, Admiral Chronopulo was removed from his post and no longer appeared in the naval sky. But every normally thinking citizen knows something else: under Yeltsin, many intelligent military leaders were completely undeservedly dismissed. True, the case of the forty -second chief commander is a special one.

To return the events for almost a quarter-century ago, as well as recall the aderal’s old merits, unfortunately, who had passed away in the year, all this served as a reason for a meeting of the navy officers of the Black Sea sailors, veterans of the fleet and the armed forces last Sunday. The reason had a material basis. Last year in St. Petersburg, the voluminous monograph by Admiral Mikhail Chronopulo “Life My Sea” was released.

Many years later, official notes and records made by Mikhail Nikolayevich during combat services received a ticket to the light, turning into memoirs with an unusual name. A few copies of the book were brought to Sevastopol, a doctor of technical sciences, professor of retardation of retired Yuri Khaliullin. He presented the memoirs of Admiral Chronopulo in the main base of the Black Sea Fleet.

To listen to the complex time in which Mikhail Nikolaevich had to command the Black Sea Fleet, veterans who served under his command, sailors from the crews of surface ships and coastal units, his fellow countrymen from the Tyumen region and from the Urals, cultural figures, Sevastopol residents came. He put his life path in several hundred pages of the book, opening it for the naval reader from the very beginning - from the moment he is making a decision to become a sailor until he headed the Black Sea Fleet.

The chronopulo passed important stages of formation, served on the artillery cruiser, commanded the military -industrial complex, a brigade of anti -submarine ships, an operational squadron in the Indian Ocean. The zenith of his service was the position of commander of the Black Sea Fleet. He led the fleet at a difficult time, when the processes of the collapse of the USSR began, when dramatic events took place in the Crimea.

But the events in the last historical pages of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet were not tarnished by the political conjuncture. Admiral Chronopulo, as befits a patriot of his homeland, commanded the fleet, as the situation demanded, while preserving honor and dignity. ” Mikhail Nikolaevich worked for days, tried to delve into any question that required an immediate solution. Going around the base from Ishmael to Poti, Admiral Chronopulo was interested in the service and life of any categories of military personnel.

In his notebook, one could see the names of not only officers, but also sailors and over -halves. When Mikhail Nikolaevich decided to “leave something behind”, he remembered the sailors when analyzing military-political events and military services. Yes, so many surnames of the Pacific and the Black Sea have accommodated his historical monograph.

” And he was an obligatory person, kindly treated sailors, foremen and officers. The features of his character were impressed by many. It was possible to take an example from his enormous performance, observe how he consistently goes to the goal, clearly plans naval events, meticulously monitors the stages of combat training of formations and units. I am sure it was a real navy. ” Interesting characteristics were given to the commander of the former head of the SRZ, captain of the 1st rank, retired Anatoly Velichko: “I did not cease to be surprised at the admiral's horizons.

When he inspected some ship, he, going into the hold, spoke at the level of the commander of the warhead-5, when questions appeared-he turned into the head of the naval administration, and then gave his vision of the issue from the position of the commander of the fleet. " From different sides, admiral chronopulo of the fleet veterans revealed the activities of Admiral.

Retired Captain Vitaly Rusin highly appreciated the significance of the book, calling it a textbook for the education of young officers. Retired captain Leonty Chernyavsky honored Mikhail Nikolayevich with the title of “Expert of Human Souls”. Secretary of the Military Scientific Society of the Black Sea Fleet 1, the captain of the 1st rank of reserve Sergey Gorbachev spoke about the admiral’s attitude to the Komsomol movement in the fleet, stopped at the admiral’s behavior during official visits, combat campaigns, and incidents in the Navy.

They complemented the portrait of the Black Sea Fleet commander of the performance of Major General Vyacheslav Kim and the widow of Admiral Laura Nikolaevna. The audience with pleasure watched a documentary about Mikhail Chronopulo "Navy". According to the absolute majority, the book “Life of My Sea” needs an additional circulation and popularization among the sailors of the Black Sea Fleet.