Background
Yuri Kvyatkovsky was Born on February 20, 1931 in Kzyl-Orda, Kazakhstan.
Yuri Kvyatkovsky was Born on February 20, 1931 in Kzyl-Orda, Kazakhstan.
In 1941, Yuri Kvyatkovsky moved to his father in Leningrad, where he studied at school № 181 of the Dzerzhinsky district. At the end of April 1942, he was evacuated to the North Caucasus where in August of the same year, as the front approached, they managed to move to Kazakhstan, where mother's parents lived. There, Yuri continued his studies until the 7th grade.
In 1946, Yuri returned home - to the city on the Neva river. In 1947 Kvyatkovsky enrolled in the 2nd course of the Leningrad preparatory naval school. In 1948, on the basis of a preparatory school, the 1st Baltic Higher Naval School of Underwater Navigation was created, where in 1949 Kvyatkovsky became a cadet. In 1953 after graduation he received the specialty of a torpedo-miner submariner and was appointed commander of the Northern Fleet submarine "B-8" mine-torpedo group in Polyarny.
In 1954, Yuri Kvyatkovsky became the commander of the submarine torpedo-artillery combat unit, and in 1956 was transferred commander of the torpedo-artillery warhead to the Northern Fleet under construction submarine "S-276". After the submarine was put into the Navy, Kvyatkovsky continued his service in the settlement of Gremikha of the Iokangsk naval base, later becoming an assistant, and in 1958 - as a senior assistant to the submarine commander . In 1958, Yuri Kvyatkovsky was sent to Leningrad to study in the Higher Orders of Lenin, in special officer classes, on the faculty of submarine commanders . After graduation in 1959, he was appointed commander of his well-known submarine "S-276". Kvyatkovsky repeatedly participated in naval drills and long-range campaigns, and on the results of his participation in the navy submarines competitions in torpedo shooting in 1962, he received a special passing prize of the Navy Commander-in-Chief for the best torpedo attack of the year.
In 1963, Yuri Kvyatkovsky enrolled in Leningrad Naval Academy command faculty. In 1966, Yuri Kvyatkovsky graduated from the academy, and was appointed senior officer in the Moscow Navy Main Command reconnaissance.
By 1970 Y.P. Kvyatkovsky was appointed Deputy Chief of the Navy Main Staff Intelligence Department. In 1972 Captain of the 1st rank Kvyatkovsky was sent to study at the USSR Armed Forces General Staff Military Academy.
In 1974, after graduating from the academy, Y. Kvyatkovskiy was appointed head of the Navy Main Staff Intelligence Department. In this capacity, he constantly participated in the chiefs’ campaigns with the major maneuvers of the Navy and the Armed Forces. In October 1978, he was transferred to the post of the Northern Fleet Reconnaissance Deputy Chief and in January 1979 he was appointed head of the Northern Fleet Intelligence Service - deputy chief of staff of the Northern Fleet for Intelligence.
In 1981 Yu.P. Kvyatkovsky received the title of Rear Admiral, and in 1985 he was transferred to the General Staff Military Academy for the post of senior lecturer in the Department of the Navy Operational Art.
Until 1992, Yuri Kvyatkovsky led the naval intelligence of the country. In 1992, in the rank of Vice Admiral Y.P. Kvyatkovsky retired and headed the research and production enterprise "Integration". Since 1994 he worked as a deputy, and since 1996 first deputy director of the Russian Maritime Historical and Cultural Center under the Government of the Russian Federation.
In 1997, after the transformation of the Marine Center into the Russian State Military Historical and Cultural Center under the Government of the Russian Federation (Rosvoentcenter) Y.P. Kvyatkovsky was appointed its director.