Background
KONDRAT’YEV, Aleksandr was born on February 25, 1886 in Kronstadt. Son of a port employee.
KONDRAT’YEV, Aleksandr was born on February 25, 1886 in Kronstadt. Son of a port employee.
1910 graduate Naval School.
1908-1914 cadet, midshipman, then warrant officer on various ships of the Black Sea and Baltic Fleets. 1914-1917 inspector, then company commander on the battleship "Aleksandr II”. After 1917 February Revol elected commander of the same battleship, which was renamed "The Dawn of Freedom".
July 1917 led a column of Baltic sailors in armed Bolshevik demonstration and sustained concussion. October 1917, by order of the Kronstadt Soviet, took his ship into battlestation to shield an insurgent Petrograd against possible attack by troops of the Provisional Government. Late 1917-late 1919 served on B;iltic Fleet Personnel Board, selecting detachments of sailors to be sent to the Civil War fronts.
Then fought personally against Yudcnich’s troops. 1920-1921 chief of staff, Sea and River Forces on the Southwestern Front, then in charge of defense of Caucasian littoral of the Black and Azov Seas. 1921-1922 chief of staff, Black Sea Fleet.
1922-1923 worked for central naval organs in Moscow. November 1923 discharged. Subsequently worked for merchant marine and for Board of Special Submarine Assignments.
Fought in World War 2.
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