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Place of Birth: Kasharsky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia
About Ivan Kapitanets
- Ivan Matveyevich Kapitanets (Russian: ???´? ?????´???? ??????´???; 10 January 1928 – 25 September 2018) was a Russian admiral of the fleet who served in the Soviet Navy. Kapitanets entered the Navy in 1946 and graduated from the Caspian Higher Naval School in 1950.
- After graduation he joined the Northern Fleet and served as torpedo officer on the destroyer Okrylenny.
- He completed the Advanced Special Officers' Course in 1958 and commanded the destroyers Ostry and Otryvisty of the Northern Fleet.
- After completing the Naval Academy in 1961 he commanded a destroyer squadron of the Northern Fleet.
- Kapitanets graduated from the General Staff Academy in 1970 and was deputy commander of the 5th Operational Squadron (the Soviet Mediterranean squadron) between 1970 and 1973.
- In 1973 Kapitanets was assigned to the Pacific Fleet and commanded the Kamchatka squadron.
- He was promoted to Vice Admiral in 1975.
- Kapitanets was deputy commander of the Baltic Fleet in 1978 and commanded this fleet in 1981-85 when he was promoted to commander of the Northern Fleet.
- Kapitanets was made first deputy commander of the Soviet Navy and Admiral of the Fleet in 1988.
- He retired in 1992. In retirement Kapitanets consulted for the Russian Government on naval matters and was a member of the Academy of Military Sciences.
- He was also the author of several books on Russian naval history.
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