Background
Kostev Georgiy Georgievich was born on the 7th of May, 1928 in Zhlobin, Belarus.
Kostev Georgiy Georgievich was born on the 7th of May, 1928 in Zhlobin, Belarus.
Kostev have completed Grade 8 in 1944 having received Certificate of Appreciation. Lyuberetsky conscription office sent him to study in the newly created Leningrad Naval Preparatory School (LNPS).
After graduation from LNPS he's been accepted into M.V. Frunze Naval School. In 1950, graduated from M.V. Frunze Naval School with the rank of lieutenant Kostev is appointed by the navigator in a submarine in Kronstadt.Two years of intensive navigation on the Baltic Sea just flew by. In the certification of Georgiy Georgievich was recorded: “the best navigator of the formation”.
In 1952-1953 Kostev has been studied at the Higher Special Classes of Diving Officers and Antisubmarine Defense of the Navy in the city of Leningrad, specializing in command subdivision.
For the period from August 1959 to July 1962 he was a student at the Naval Academy in Leningrad.
Georgiy Georgievich serves on diesel submarines "S-85", "S-219" until 1959 serving as an assistant submarine commander in the Baltic Fleet, a senior submarine assistant in the Black Sea Fleet and a submarine commander in the Pacific Fleet.
In 1956-1957 Kostev has moved from the Northern Fleet to the the Pacific one on diesel submarine "S-219". He moored his "S-219" to the pier in Kamchatka on the 1st of September, 1957.
In 1962 Georgy Georgievich was appointed commander of an atomic submarine. Kostev started trips in nuclear-powered vessels. In 1964 the commander of an atomic submarine "K-50", Captain 2nd rank, Georgiy Georgievich had two of them. After the command of the submarine "K-50" Georgy Georgievich is appointed as Assistant Division Commander in his own formation. In 1966, he was transferred to the service in Moscow on health grounds from the post of Assistant Commander of the Northern Fleet atomic submarine's division for the Navy General Staff, where he served in the Operations Department.
During the intensification of the Arab-Israeli relations in 1967 in accordance with the decision of the Chief of the Navy General Staff Georgiy Georgievich headed the group on combat service issues. In August 1968, Kostev is appointed as Deputy Chief of the Southern Direction of the Operations Department of the Navy General Staff. From that time he produced materials on the analysis and use of forces in the Mediterranean. In September 1968, on the instruction of the Chief of the Navy General Staff, Kostev G.G. left on the squadron to the Mediterranean.
In 1970, Georgiy Georgievich is transferred to the service in The Lenin Military-Political Academy as Head of the Command and Staff instructional Department. He was conducting a scientific work and in January 1974 he defended his Candidates Thesis on the tactical topic.
Now Georgy Georgievich is credited with more than 200 works, which include fundamental war-historical monograph series "The Naval fleet of the country. 1945-1995. Ups and Downs", reprinted under the name "The Naval fleet of the country over the last half-century" in 2000. The analysis of tragic events, occurred with the Kursk nuclear that year, became a principal addition to the third edition of the monograph entitled "The Navy of the Soviet Union and Russia. 1945-2000". This third edition is noted by some awards.In the development of this unique work Georgiy Georgievich published the book "Unknown Fleet", coauthored by his son Igor.
Georgiy Georgievich is one of the authors of the collection of chronicles "Moscow and the fate of the Russian Fleet". Kostev G.G. publishes articles in periodicals and collections, and does it together with his son Kostev I.G., the captain 1-st reserve class. Now the father and son are preparing to publish a new monograph "Underwater Fleet from Stalin to Putin".
For military merits Kostev G.G. was awarded the Order for the Services to the Fatherland in the USSR Armed Force, III degree (1981), the GDR Order of National Merit (1988), medals for Combat Service and "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", other medals and awards of various countries.
Georgiy Georgievich lives in Moscow.
Georgiy Georgievich Kostev was elected a member of the Scientific and Advisory Council for military knowledge promotion of the Moscow City Organization the All-Union Znanie Society, a member of the Scientific and Advisory Commission on the operational art under the Principal Directorate of Higher Educational Institutions of the USSR Ministry of Defense, a member of the Academic Council of the Military-Political Academy. In 1995 he was elected an associate member of the Academy of Military Sciences.