Trainin Pavel Alekseevich (1895-1956)

Trainin Pavel Alekseevich (1895, Pinsk, Minsk Province — 1956, Leningrad) — naval commander, Rear Admiral (1940).

Pavel Trainin completed two years at a polytechnical institute and graduated from an officers’ (praporshchik) school in 1917. He joined the Red Army in 1919 and served in the navy from 1920.

In 1922, he was deputy chief of staff of the Far Eastern Republic fleet. He later served as assistant commander of a destroyer and commander of a monitor. In 1929, he took part in the Soviet–Chinese armed conflict.

From 1931 to 1939, he was head of the command faculty and head of the Department of Coastal Defence at the Naval Academy. In 1940, he was appointed commander of the Ladoga Military Flotilla.

In 1941, he commanded naval bases in Liepāja and Riga. From July to September 1941, he was under arrest. In 1942, he commanded the Kerch Naval Base; in 1942–1943, he was deputy commander of the Volga Military Flotilla.

In 1944, he became head of the Minesweeping Department of the Navy. In 1945–1947, he served as deputy chairman of the Allied Control Commission in Hungary. From 1947 to 1950, he was head of the Department of Operational-Technical Sciences, and from 1950 to 1956 — head of the Department of Operational Art at the Naval Academy.

Pavel Trainin was awarded seven orders.