caption serviceyears branch commands death_place death_date birth_place battles birth_date rank article_title name
filipp sergeyevich oktyabrskiy 1917-1960 soviet union amur flotilla , black sea fleet sevastopol , soviet union 08 july 1969 lukshino village , near tver , russia russian civil war , world war ii 23 october 1899 admiral -lrb- 1944 -rrb- filipp oktyabrsky
 filipp oktyabrskiy
filipp oktyabrsky

filipp sergeyevich oktyabrskiy -lrb- , real surname : ivanov - Иванов ; october 23 , 1899 -- july 8 , 1969 , sevastopol -rrb- was a soviet naval commander .
he began service on the baltic fleet in november 1917 .
from 1925 -- 27 he studied at the naval academy in leningrad .
as vice admiral he was given command of the black sea fleet in march 1939 and headed its actions during the sieges of sevastopol and odessa .
after the war he was a deputy commander-in-chief of the navy , commander of all naval test centres and from 1957 to 1960 head of the p.s. nakhimov higher naval school in sevastopol .
