Gavriil Zhukov
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Soviet Union
Soviet NavyGavriil Zhukov | |
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| Born | 24 March 1899 Bereyozovy Gai, Samara Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Died | 8 January 1957 (aged 57) |
| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Branch | Soviet Navy |
| Service years | 1918–1950 |
| Rank | Vice Admiral (1944) |
| Commands | Odessa Defense Region |
| Conflicts | Russian Civil War Spanish Civil War World War II |
| Awards | Order of Lenin (3) Order of the Red Banner (4) Order of Nakhimov Medal "For the Defence of Odessa" |
Gavriil Vasilyevich Zhukov (Russian: Гавриил Васильевич Жуков; 24 March 1899 - 8 January 1957) was a Soviet naval commander who served in both the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War.
Zhukov was born in the Village of Beryozovy Gai in the Samara Governorate in 1899. After limited schooling at the age of 15 he was employed at a factory manufacturing artillery fuzes. Later he traveled to Petrograd and entered a maritime School there. In April 1918, he joined the Red Army sailors' detachment and took part in battles with the White Guard troops in Samara, Simbirsk and Kazan in the composition of the Volga Military Flotillas. He rose through the ranks first as a seaman, then a machine gunner, chief of staff of the sailors' unit and finally adjutant to the unit commander. After the Civil War from 1925 to 1927 he studied at the Russian Naval School. During the Spanish Civil War from October 1936 to 31 July 1937, Zhukov was in Spain as adviser and assistant to the naval attaché to Nikolai Kuznetsov . For his participation alongside the Spanish Republicans he received his first Order of Lenin. From its construction in 1937 to 1939 he was captain of the cruiser Maxim Gorky and was then promoted in 1939 to command the Detachment of Training Ships of the Baltic Fleet, before serving as commandant of the Northwestern Fortified Region of the Black Sea Fleet. In March 1940, he was transferred to command the Odessa Naval Base .
