Fyodor Alekseyevich Vidyayev (Russian Фёдор Алексеевич Видяев) ( born 1912, died 1943) was a Soviet Navy

Soviet Navy

The Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean...

 submarine commander during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. He was killed in action in 1943.

Vidayev was born in Samara Oblast

Samara Oblast

Samara Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Samara. Population: In 1936–1990, it was known as Kuybyshev Oblast , after the Soviet name of Samara .-Demographics:Population:...

, he was an ethnic Mordvin. He finished high school in Murmansk in 1930 and graduated with distincion from the M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School in 1937. He joined the Northern Fleet submarine division and started as a junior navigator on the submarine D-2

Dekabrist class submarine

The Dekabrist-class were the first class of submarines built for the Soviet Navy after the October Revolution. They were authorized in the Soviet Naval Shipbuilding Program of 1926....

. In 1938 he took part in the rescue of four researchers from a drifting ice station

Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations

Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations are important contributors to exploration of the Arctic. The stations are named North Pole Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations are important contributors to exploration of the Arctic. The stations are named North Pole Soviet and...

. He took part in the Soviet Finnish War

Winter War

The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 – three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland – and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty...

 of 1939-40 blockading Petsamo.

In 1941 he was 2nd in command of the Shch-421

Shchuka class submarine

The Shchuka class submarines , also referred to as Shch or SC class submarines were a medium-sized class of Soviet submarines, built in large numbers and used during World War II...

serving under Nikolai Lunin

Nikolai Lunin

Nikolai Alexandrovich Lunin was a Admiral in the Soviet Navy and a Hero of the Soviet Union.Lunin was born in Mariupol the son of a soldier. He studied at the Rostov-on-Don maritime college and joined the merchant marine serving aboard the tanker Azneft...

 he was given command of this boat in 1942 when Lunin was given command of the new submarine K-21 Vidayev carried out twelve war patrols. His boat set out in July 1943 and never returned.

The town of Vidyayevo

Vidyayevo

Vidyaevo is a closed rural inhabited locality in Kolsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Despite having a rural status, it is municipally incorporated as Vidyayevo Urban Okrug, as such status is the only one allowed by the federal law for the closed inhabited localities. Population: 6,307 .It...

 was named after him as was a Don class submarine tender

Don class submarine tender

The Don class submarine tender was the NATO reporting name for a group of submarine tenders built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1950s. The Soviet designation was Project 310 Batur.-Design:...

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