in the summer of 1918, as senior watch officer aboard the battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsia in 1930, and as assistant commander of the famous protected cruiser Aurora in 1933. In 1939 he was given command of the gunboat Krasnoye Znamya (see picture, from Korabli i suda VMF SSSR. 1928–1945: spravochnik by S.S.