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Georgy Abashvili
(
Georgian
:
?????? ????????
;
Russian
:
Гео?ргий Семёнович Абашви?ли
,
Georgiy Semyonovich Abashvili
) (8 January 1910 ? 26 September 1982) was a
Soviet
naval
commander and
vice-admiral
(1955).
An ethnic
Georgian
, Abashvili was born in
Tbilisi
,
Georgia
, then part of the
Russian Empire
. He graduated from the
Leningrad
Naval College in 1931 and joined the Soviet
Baltic Fleet
with which he served through the
Finnish campaign
and
World War II
. In 1944, he was deputy chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet and also commanded a division of
destroyers
which played a vital role in relieving the
blockade of Leningrad
.
[1]
In 1953 he was senior officer with the Soviet vessels visiting
Poland
and in 1954 with those called in
Finland
.
[2]
During the
Cuban Missile Crisis
in 1962, Abashvili was deputy commander-in-chief to
Issa Pliyev
and naval commander in the proposed Group of Soviet forces in
Cuba
(
Operation Anadyr
).
[3]
According to one account, he was against the immediate use of force during the crisis days. He is said to have delayed the Soviet missile launch order during the height of tensions and became one of the people who contributed in preventing a nuclear war.
[4]
He retired the same year and died of
stroke
in Leningrad in 1982.
[
citation needed
]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
(in Georgian)
????????, ?????? ("Abashvili, Giorgi"), in: ??? (
Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia
), v. 1, p. 17. Tbilisi: 1975
- ^
Jones, David R. (1978),
The Military-naval encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union
, v. 1, p. 34. Academic International Press,
ISBN
0-87569-028-9
- ^
(in Russian)
Korshunov, Yuri (2004), Россия, какой она не стала (
The Russia which it never became
), p. 299. Olma Media Group,
ISBN
5-7654-4002-9
- ^
Smirnov, Alexey.
"Георгий Семёнович Абашвили - Вице-адмирал остановил начало третей мировой войны"
[Georgy Semyonovich Abashvili - Vice Admiral stopped the start of World War III].
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