Admiral Korolyov appointed Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief - Defense Ministry
MOSCOW. April 7 (Interfax) - Admiral Vladimir Korolyov, former commander of the Northern Fleet, has become the Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief, says a report posted on the Russian Defense Ministry website.
"[Korolyov] was appointed Russian Navy Commander in April 2016," the report said.
Interfax-AVN reported on March 14 that Northern Fleet commander Korolyov had become the acting Navy commander-in-chief, while the former commander-in-chief, Admiral Viktor Chirkov, had decided to retire for health reasons.
Korolyov was born in 1955. He joined the Navy in 1972 and graduated from the Frunze Higher Naval School in 1977 and from the Kuznetsov Naval Academy in 1995.
He became the commander of the Black Sea Fleet in July 2010.
In June 2011, Korolyov was appointed Northern Fleet commander. Surface ships of the Northern Fleet went on an Arctic voyage under his flag in fall 2012, and the first landing in Russia's history was performed on the Novosibirsk Islands.
In December 2014, he headed the joint strategic command of the Northern Fleet with the attached Kola air defense formation, separate motorized infantry and Arctic brigades and aircraft. The command's zone of responsibility in the territory of Russia, along the coast of the Arctic Ocean, was expanded to the administrative border of the Chukchi administrative district. He directly supervised the development of the Northern Fleet's military infrastructures in the Arctic, the report said.