caption serviceyears branch commands death_place death_date birth_place battles birth_date rank article_title name
lunin during world war ii 1935-1962 soviet navy soviet submarine k21 leningrad , soviet union 17 november 1970 mariupol , ukraine world war ii 21 august 1907 rear admiral nikolai lunin
 nikolai lunin
nikolai lunin

nikolai alexandrovich lunin -lrb- Лунин , Николай Александрович -rrb- -lrb- 1907 -- 1970 -rrb- was an admiral in the soviet navy and a hero of the soviet union .
lunin was born in mariupol the son of a soldier .
he studied at the rostov-on-don maritime college and joined the merchant marine serving aboard the tanker `` azneft '' .
he joined the navy in 1935 and was arrested in the 1938 purge but released after 13 months .
he was transferred to the submarine arm .
in 1941 , lunin commanded the shch class submarine `` shch-421 '' with fyodor vidyayev as his second in command .
he carried out several successful patrols in this boat , sinking a german transport .
in 1942 he was given command of the new k class submarine , `` k-21 '' .
the k-21 made an attack on the german battleship tirpitz in june 1942 .
he subsequently carried out further patrols in arctic waters and claimed 17 german transports .
in 1943 , he became commander of the northern fleet 's submarine brigade and was promoted to rear admiral in 1945 .
after the war lunin was involved in the soviet exploration of the arctic and antarctic .
lunin retired in 1962 and died in 1970 .
he is buried in the military cemetery in st petersburg .
