Background
BERENS, Yevgeniy was born on October 30, 1876 in Tiflis of a noble seafaring family.
BERENS, Yevgeniy was born on October 30, 1876 in Tiflis of a noble seafaring family.
1895 naval cadet school.
1904 in Russo-Japanese War as senior navigator of cruiser Varyag-, 1908 as first officer of battleship Tsesarevich, distinguished himself by aid to victims of Sicilian earthquake. Taught naval history at cadet school. Lectured at General Staff Academy.
1910-1914 naval attache in Germany. 1914-1917 head, Foreign Department, Naval General Staff. After 1917 October Revol elected chief, Naval General Staff.
Planned Arctic convoy in which Russian Baltic Fleet vessels escaped from Helsingfors to Kronstadt. Suggested scuttling of Black Sea vessels to prevent their capture by Germans. From April 1919 commander, Soviet Naval Forces and assistant commander in chief for Naval Affairs.
On his initiative old river and lake flotillas were reinforced and new ones organized. Fought at Tsaritsyn; from February 1920 special plenipotentiary of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Revol-Military Council. Soviet naval expert at international conferences in Genoa (1922), Lausanne (1922-1923) and Rome (1924).
1923-1924 naval expert with Soviet mission in England. From March 1924 naval attache in England. From 1925 simultaneously naval attache in France.
From late 1926 special emissary for People’s Commissariat of the Navy.
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