Background
FOKIN, Vitaliy was born on March 17, 1906.
FOKIN, Vitaliy was born on March 17, 1906.
1927 graduate Frunze Naval College.
1922, following Communist Youth League levy, volunteered for Soviet Navy. 1927-1941 consecutively deck officer on cruiser ’’Avrora”. Patrol boat commander.
Commander, destroyer Uritskiy, 1941-1944 commander, destroyer squadron. Northern Fleet; chief of staff, Caspian Flotilla. Naval detachment commander.
1944-1947 squadron commander, Northern Fleet. 1947-1948 chief of staff, Northern Fleet: 1948-1958 deputy commander, then commander, Operations Department, General (later Main) Staff of the Navy. Deputy chief, then chiel.
Main Naval Staff; 1958-1962 commander. Pacific Fleet; 1962-1964 first deputy commander, Soviet Navy. In 1930's his destroyer Uritskiy ranked first in military training in Soviet Navy.
Helped modernize Pacific Fleet. 1959 commander of a naval detachment which visited Indonesia. Deputy, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 1959 and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1962 convocations.
Delegation at 21st (1959) and 22nd (1961) Communist Party of the Soviet Union Congresses.
Religion divides people, and is a cause of numerous wars and conflicts throughout the human history.
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
Member, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961. Communist Party member from 1927.