serviceyears branch death_place death_date birth_place allegiance image_size battles birth_date rank article_title name
1937-1943 soviet navy barents sea 1 july 1943 shentala samara oblast , russia soviet union 200 world war ii 7 november 1912 captain 2nd rank fyodor vidyayev
 fyodor alekseyevich vidyaev
fyodor vidyayev

fyodor alekseyevich vidyayev -lrb- , 1912-1943 -rrb- was a soviet navy submarine commander during world war ii .
he was killed in action in 1943 .
vidayev was born in samara oblast , he was an ethnic mordvin .
he finished high school in murmansk in 1930 and graduated with distinction from the m.v. frunze higher naval school in 1937 .
he joined the northern fleet submarine division and started as a junior navigator on the submarine d-2 .
in 1938 he took part in the rescue of four researchers from a drifting ice station .
he took part in the soviet finnish war of 1939-40 blockading petsamo .
in 1941 he was 2nd in command of the `` shch-421 '' serving under nikolai lunin he was given command of this boat in 1942 when lunin was given command of the new submarine `` k-21 '' vidayev carried out twelve war patrols .
his boat set out in july 1943 and never returned .
the town of vidyayevo was named after him as was a don class submarine tender .
