page_title: Mikhail Zakharov
section_title: Later life and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Mikhail Zakharov / Later life and legacy
caption_attribution_description: Русский: БПК "Адмирал Захаров" в 1990 году.
context_page_description: Mikhail Nikolayevich Zakharov was an officer of the Soviet Navy. He saw action in the Second World War and rose to the rank of admiral.
  Born in St Petersburg, in the Russian Empire in 1912, Zakharov began his naval career in 1930 with service with Coastal Defence Artillery Brigades, before moving into the political branch. He was military commissar at the Pacific Fleet's base at Nikolayevsk-on-Amur during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, and during the war served on the military councils of the Pacific Fleet, the Volga Military District and the Northern Fleet. He followed this with work as a propagandist and as a senior instructor, and later as inspector of the fleet's political administration.
  Zakharov served in the political department of the Black Sea Fleet after the war, and in 1956 joined the Pacific Fleet's military council, which he served on for the next 15 years, rising through the ranks to admiral. His last posting was head of the political department of the Naval Academy, which he held until shortly before his retirement in 1977. He had served as deputy to both the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR during this time.
context_section_description: Between January and March 1969 Zakharov took a two-month course at the V. I. Lenin Military-Political Academy, and after stepping down from the Pacific Fleet's military council in September 1971 he became head of the political department of the Naval Academy. Zakharov was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union's sixth and seventh convocations, from 1962 to 1966, and 1966 to 1970 respectively; and deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR's 8th convocation. He stepped down from his naval duties in August 1976 and in February 1977 retired due to ill health. He died in Leningrad on 19 February 1978, and was buried at the Serafimovskoe Cemetery. Obituaries appeared in Leningradskaya Pravda on 21 February; Krasnaya Zvezda on 22 February; and Sovetskii Moryak on 24 February 1978.
  Zakharov received a number of awards and honours during his career. He was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1955; was twice awarded the Order of the Red Banner; held both the first and second classes of the Order of the Patriotic War ; the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" Third Class; and was awarded the Order of the Red Star three times, including in 1947 and 1963. He was also awarded an honorary weapon in 1972. A street was named after him in Vladivostok, with a commemorative plaque installed in 1979. The Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Zakharov, launched in 1982, was named in his honour.
caption: Zakharov's namesake, the Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Zakharov [ru], in 1990
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