Grigori Ivanovich Shchedrin (1912–1995) 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 and admiral. He was a Hero of the Soviet Union

Hero of the Soviet Union

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Shchedrin was born in Tuapse and joined the merchant navy as a fourteen year old. He continued his education at a marine college and graduated as a navigator in 1932.

Shchedrin joined the navy's submarine servoice in 1934, He commanded boats M-5 and Shch-110

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...

and won first prize in the Soviet Pacific Fleet in 1939 to 1941. In 1941 he was given command of the new Soviet S class submarine

S class submarine

Five classes of submarine are known as the S class:* The S class of three boats built by Scotts of Greenock in 1914–1915 and transferred to the Italian Regia Marina in 1915....

 S-56

In 1942 Shchedrin led a flotilla of six submarines from the Pacific fleet to join the Red Banner Northern Fleet across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans via the Panama Canal

Panama Canal

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. This squadron reached Plyarnny in March 1943. The S-56 carried out 8 war patrols sinking two transports and two warships. Shchedrin wa awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union on 5 November 1944.

Shchedrin was chief of staff of the Baltic Fleet's 2nd submarine squadron from 1946–1950, In 1950-53 he was base commander at Świnoujście

Swinoujscie

Świnoujście is a city and seaport on the Baltic Sea and Szczecin Lagoon, located in the extreme north-west of Poland. It is situated mainly on the islands of Uznam and Wolin, but also occupies smaller islands, of which the largest is Karsibór island, once part of Usedom, now separated by a Piast...

, Poland. In 1954 he graduated from the general staff academy with the gold medal and was promoted to Vice Admiral. He commanded the Kamchatka Flotilla of the Pacific Fleet until 1959 when he joined Navy staff. he was editor of the navy's magazine Morskoi sbornik (Морской сборник) between 1969 to 1973.

Shchedrin retired in 1973 and died in Moscow in 1995.