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gennady lyachin hero of the russian federation russian navy 12 august 2000 rus ussr sarpinsky , russian sfsr , ussr russia 20px 01 january 1955 captain first rank gennady lyachin.jpg gennady lyachin
 gennady lyachin Геннадий Лячин
gennady lyachin

captain first rank gennady petrovich lyachin -lrb- , -lrb- 1 january 1955 -- 12 august 2000 -rrb- was the commanding officer of the russian submarine `` kursk '' when the vessel suffered a series of explosions and sank on 12 august 2000 .
president of the russian federation vladimir putin awarded the title of hero of the russian federation to lyachin posthumously `` for courage and heroism , during performance of sailor 's duties '' .
lyachin was born in sarpinsky in volgograd oblast .
he entered the navy in 1972 and graduated from the higher naval school of submarine navigation named for lenin komsomol in 1977 and was commissioned as an officer .
he served as a weapons officer aboard the diesel-electric `` juliett '' class cruise missile submarine k-58 .
from 1984 to 1986 , as captain 3rd rank , he served as the executive officer of the k-77 , also a `` juliett '' class .
in 1986 he attended advanced special officers ' classes during which time he was promoted to captain 2nd rank .
