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Feliks Nikolayevich Gromov (; 29 August 1937 – 22 January 2021) was a
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who was Commander-in-Chief of the Navy from 1992 to 1997.


Early life and education

Gromov was born in Vladivostok and joined the navy in 1955. He completed the S.O. Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School in 1959.


Military career

He served as an officer on a destroyer and in 1961 served in the strategic missile troops on an exchange programme. Gromov returned to the navy in 1962 and served on the and the ''Vdokhnovennyy''. He subsequently commanded the cruisers ''Senyavin'' and ''Dmitriy Pozharsky''. In 1977 Gromov became commander of a squadron of surface ships in the Baltic Fleet and was transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet in 1982. In 1984 he became deputy commander of the Soviet Northern Fleet and was promoted to its commander in 1988. In 1992 Gromov was given command of the
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following the
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. He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet by
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in 1996 and retired on 7 November 1997 at age 60, the mandated retirement age for
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s and Fleet Admirals. The
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speculated that Gromov was dismissed because of a Russian Pacific Fleet ammunition explosion which seems to have attracted wide attention. He died in his
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and was buried at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery.


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*https://web.archive.org/web/20061021000536/http://www.jamestown.org/email-to-friend.php?article_id=3219 * ''Morskoy sbornik'', No. 4, April 1992, p. 13. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gromov, Feliks Russian admirals Commanders-in-chief of the Russian Navy Soviet Navy personnel Soviet admirals 1937 births 2021 deaths Military personnel from Vladivostok Recipients of the Order of Military Merit (Russia) Recipients of the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 2nd class Pacific Higher Naval School alumni N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy alumni Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia Burials at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery Admirals of the fleet (Russia)