Viktor Fedorov

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Viktor Dmitryevich Fyodorov (Russian: Виктор Дмитриевич Фёдоров; born 23 November 1947) is a retired officer of the Soviet and Russian Navies. He holds the rank of admiral, and served as commander of the Pacific Fleet between 2001 and 2007. Fyodorov was born into a military family on 23 November 1947, in Zharomte, China. He moved with his family in 1959 to Novotsurukhaituy, Priargunsky District, Zabaykalsky Krai, and graduated from Secondary School No. 3 in Priargunsk. He later studied at the Far Eastern Maritime School of the Ministry of the Fishing Industry, graduating with honours in 1968. He joined the Soviet Navy that year, being appointed as head of the navigational departments aboard the minesweepers MT-65 and MT-68. Receiving his officer's commission in 1971, from 1971 to 1973 he was assistant commander of the minesweeper MT-66, and then until 1977, commander of the minesweeper MT-421. He combined the later role with studies at the Pacific Higher Naval School, graduating in absentia with a diploma in 1976. In 1977 he enrolled at the Grechko Naval Academy, graduating in 1979 and being appointed that year to command the 146th Defensive Squadron of the 47th Defensive Ship Brigade of initially the Primorskaya Flotilla between 1979 and 1980, and the Sakhalin Flotilla between 1980 and 1981. From these posts he rose to be chief of staff of the 47th Defensive Ship Brigade between 1981 and 1983, the brigade's commander from 1983 to 1985, and then chief of the operative department of the staff of the Primorskaya Flotilla until 1987.