serviceyears laterwork branch death_place death_date birth_place battles birth_date rank article_title birth_name
1948 - ? journalist , military correspondent of pravda soviet navy moscow 23 december 1999 archangelsk , ussr cold war 8 december 1926 rear admiral timur gaidar
 timur arkadievich gaidar
timur gaidar

timur arkadievich gaidar -lrb- ; december 8 , 1926 -- december 23 , 1999 -rrb- was a soviet/russian rear admiral , writer and journalist .
he was supposed to be the prototype for timur from arkady gaidar 's book `` timur and his squad '' that was the inspiration for the timurite movement .
gaidar was born in arkhangelsk , the son of arkady gaidar .
he graduated from the leningrad naval school in 1948 and the faculty of journalism of the lenin military political academy in 1954 , and served on submarines of the baltic fleet and the pacific ocean fleet .
beginning in 1957 he worked for newspapers , including `` the soviet fleet '' , `` the red star '' , and `` pravda '' .
gaidar died in moscow .
his widow is ariadna bazhova -lrb- born 1925 , daughter of the russian writer pavel bazhov -rrb- .
yegor gaidar , a russian politician , was their son .
