Background
Shchedrin was born in Tuapse and joined the merchant navy as a fourteen-year-old.
Shchedrin was born in Tuapse and joined the merchant navy as a fourteen-year-old.
He continued his education at a marine college and graduated as a navigator in 1932.
In 1941 he was given command of the new Soviet South-class submarine South-56. In 1942 Shchedrin led a flotilla of six submarines from the Pacific fleet to join the Red Banner Northern Fleet across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans via the Panama Canal. This squadron reached Plyarnny in March 1943.
The South-56 carried out 8 war patrols sinking two transports and two warships.
Shchedrin was chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet"s 2nd submarine squadron from 1946–1950, In 1950-1953 he was base commander at Świnoujście, Poland. In 1954 he graduated from the general staff academy with the gold medal and was promoted to Vice Admiral.
He commanded the Kamchatka Flotilla of the Pacific Fleet until 1959 when he joined Navy staff he was editor of the navy"s magazine Morskoi sbornik (Морской сборник) between 1969 to 1973. Shchedrin retired in 1973 and died in Moscow in 1995.