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Born in 1978, citizen of the Russian Federation
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Higher legal education, graduated from the Saratov State Academy of Law with a degree in jurisprudence in 2000
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The head of the Kaluga Investigative Committee has changed
In the regional department of the ICR, for the first time in 10 years of its existence, there was a change of leadership. Major General Vladimir EFREMENKOV, who created the structure virtually from scratch and headed it for 10 years, left this position. The duties of the head of the Kaluga Investigative Committee are now performed by Colonel Vadim KOROBOV (pictured).
Kaluga lawyer accused of fraud of 300 thousand rubles
On January 17, the acting head of the regional Investigative Committee, Vadim Korobov, opened a criminal case against a lawyer from the Kaluga region, who is suspected of fraud on an especially large scale (Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
According to investigators, a resident of Obninsk approached a lawyer with a request for legal assistance in a criminal case of theft, which is being processed by the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Borovsky district. The 58-year-old suspect offered his trustee a “deal”, according to which, for a monetary reward, he would resolve the issue with law enforcement officers about not bringing her to criminal responsibility.
A Kaluga lawyer was caught taking a bribe of 300 thousand rubles that was not handed over.
According to investigators, a resident of the city of Obninsk turned to the 58-year-old lawyer for legal assistance.
On January 17, the acting head of the regional Investigative Committee, Vadim Korobov, opened a criminal case against a lawyer from the Kaluga region, who is suspected of fraud on an especially large scale (Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He is suspected of committing an offense under Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (large-scale fraud
Korobov Vadim Konstantinovich(February 15, 1927, Vologda - April 12, 1998, Moscow) - Soviet submariner, Hero of the Soviet Union (1976), admiral (1987).
Biography
For the successful completion of command assignments and the courage and bravery demonstrated by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 25, 1976, Rear Admiral Vadim Konstantinovich Korobov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 11416).
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Literature
- M. M. Thagapsov. In the service of the Fatherland. - Maykop: LLC "Quality", 2015. - P. 181. - 262 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9703-0473-0.
Sources
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov. - M.: Voenizdat, 1987. - T. 1 /Abaev - Lyubichev/. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN ex., Reg. No. in RKP 87-95382.
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– I’ll drink it, give me a bottle of rum! - Pierre shouted, hitting the table with a decisive and drunken gesture, and climbed out the window.They grabbed him by the arms; but he was so strong that he pushed the one who approached him far away.
“No, you can’t persuade him like that for anything,” said Anatole, “wait, I’ll deceive him.” Look, I bet you, but tomorrow, and now we're all going to hell.
“We’re going,” Pierre shouted, “we’re going!... And we’re taking Mishka with us...
And he grabbed the bear, and, hugging and lifting it, began to spin around the room with it.
Prince Vasily fulfilled the promise made at the evening at Anna Pavlovna's to Princess Drubetskaya, who asked him about her only son Boris. He was reported to the sovereign, and, unlike others, he was transferred to the Semenovsky Guard Regiment as an ensign. But Boris was never appointed as an adjutant or under Kutuzov, despite all the efforts and machinations of Anna Mikhailovna. Soon after Anna Pavlovna's evening, Anna Mikhailovna returned to Moscow, straight to her rich relatives, the Rostovs, with whom she stayed in Moscow and with whom her beloved Borenka, who had just been promoted to the army and was immediately transferred to guards ensigns, had been raised and lived for years since childhood. The Guard had already left St. Petersburg on August 10, and the son, who remained in Moscow for uniforms, was supposed to catch up with her on the road to Radzivilov.
The Rostovs had a birthday girl, Natalya, a mother and a younger daughter. In the morning, without ceasing, trains drove up and drove off, bringing congratulators to the large, well-known house of Countess Rostova on Povarskaya throughout Moscow. The countess with her beautiful eldest daughter and guests, who never ceased replacing one another, were sitting in the living room.
The Countess was a woman with an oriental type of thin face, about forty-five years old, apparently exhausted by children, of whom she had twelve. The slowness of her movements and speech, resulting from weakness of strength, gave her a significant appearance that inspired respect. Princess Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskaya, like a homely person, sat right there, helping in the matter of receiving and engaging in conversation with the guests. The youth were in the back rooms, not finding it necessary to participate in receiving visits. The Count met and saw off the guests, inviting everyone to dinner.
“I am very, very grateful to you, ma chere or mon cher [my dear or my dear] (ma chere or mon cher he said to everyone without exception, without the slightest shade, both above and below him) for himself and for the dear birthday girls . Look, come and have lunch. You will offend me, mon cher. I sincerely ask you on behalf of the whole family, ma chere.” He spoke these words with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face and with an equally strong handshake and repeated short bows to everyone, without exception or change. Having seen off one guest, the count returned to whoever was still in the living room; having pulled up his chairs and with the air of a man who loves and knows how to live, with his legs gallantly spread and his hands on his knees, he swayed significantly, offered guesses about the weather, consulted about health, sometimes in Russian, sometimes in very bad but self-confident French, and again with the air of a tired but firm man in the performance of his duties, he went to see him off, straightening the sparse gray hair on his bald head, and again called for dinner. Sometimes, returning from the hallway, he walked through the flower and waiter's room into a large marble hall, where a table for eighty couverts was being set, and, looking at the waiters wearing silver and porcelain, arranging tables and unrolling damask tablecloths, he called to him Dmitry Vasilyevich, a nobleman, who was taking care of all his affairs, and said: “Well, well, Mitenka, make sure everything is fine. “Well, well,” he said, looking around with pleasure at the huge spread-out table. – The main thing is serving. This and that...” And he left, sighing complacently, back into the living room.
- Marya Lvovna Karagina with her daughter! – the huge countess’s footman reported in a bass voice as he entered the living room door.
The Countess thought and sniffed from a golden snuffbox with a portrait of her husband.
“These visits tormented me,” she said. - Well, I’ll take her last one. Very prim. “Beg,” she said to the footman in a sad voice, as if she was saying: “Well, finish it off!”
A tall, plump, proudly looking lady with a round-faced, smiling daughter, rustling their dresses, entered the living room.
“Chere comtesse, il y a si longtemps... elle a ete alitee la pauvre enfant... au bal des Razoumowsky... et la comtesse Apraksine... j"ai ete si heureuse..." [Dear Countess, how long ago... she should have been in bed, poor child... at the Razumovskys' ball... and Countess Apraksina... was so happy...] lively women's voices were heard, interrupting one another and merging with the noise of dresses and the moving of chairs. That conversation began, which is started just enough so that at the first pause you get up and rustle with dresses. , say: “Je suis bien charmee; la sante de maman... et la comtesse Apraksine” [I am delighted; mother’s health... and Countess Apraksina] and, again rustling with dresses, go into the hallway, put on a fur coat or a cloak and leave. about the main city news of that time - about the illness of the famous rich and handsome man of Catherine's time, old Count Bezukhy, and about his illegitimate son Pierre, who behaved so indecently at an evening with Anna Pavlovna Scherer.
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Korobov Vadim Konstantinovich(February 15, 1927, Vologda - April 12, 1998, Moscow) - Soviet submariner, Hero of the Soviet Union (1976), admiral (1987).
Biography
Korobov's grave at the Troekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow.For the successful completion of command assignments and the courage and bravery demonstrated by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 25, 1976, Rear Admiral Vadim Konstantinovich Korobov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 11416).
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Literature
- M. M. Thagapsov. In the service of the Fatherland. - Maykop: LLC "Quality", 2015. - P. 181. - 262 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9703-0473-0.
Sources
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov. - M.: Voenizdat, 1987. - T. 1 /Abaev - Lyubichev/. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN ex., Reg. No. in RKP 87-95382.
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This was my complex and sometimes funny childhood reality in which I lived at that time. And since I had no other choice, I had to find my “bright and beautiful” even in what others, I think, would never find it. I remember once after my next unusual “incident”, I sadly asked my grandmother:– Why is my life so different from everyone else’s?
Grandmother shook her head, hugged me and quietly answered:
– Life, my dear, consists of a tenth of what happens to us and nine-tenths of how we react to it. React cheerfully, baby! Otherwise, at times it can be very difficult to exist... And what is different is that at the beginning we are all different in one way or another. You will just grow and life will begin to “tailor” you more and more to general standards, and it will depend only on you whether you want to be the same as everyone else.
And I didn’t want to... I loved my unusual colorful world and would never trade it for anything. But, unfortunately, every beautiful thing in our life is very expensive and we need to really love it very much so that it doesn’t hurt to pay for it. And, as we all know very well, unfortunately, you always have to pay for everything... It’s just that when you do it consciously, you remain satisfied with free choice, when your choice and free will depend only on you. But for this, in my personal opinion, it is truly worth paying any price, even if it is sometimes very expensive for oneself. But let's get back to my fasting.
Two weeks had already passed, and I still, much to my mother’s chagrin, did not want to eat anything and, oddly enough, physically I felt strong and absolutely wonderful. And since I looked, in general, quite well then, I gradually managed to convince my mother that nothing bad was happening to me and, apparently, nothing terrible was in danger for me yet. This was absolutely true, as I truly felt great, except for that “oversensitive” mental state that made all my perceptions maybe a little too “naked” - the colors, sounds and feelings were so vivid that it sometimes it became difficult to breathe. I think this “hypersensitivity” was the reason for my next and yet another “incredible” adventure...
At that time, it was already late autumn and a group of our neighboring children gathered in the forest after school to pick the last autumn mushrooms. Well, naturally, as usual, I decided to go with them. The weather was unusually mild and pleasant. The still warm rays of the sun jumped like bright bunnies across the golden foliage, at times seeping down to the ground and warming it with the last farewell warmth. The elegant forest greeted us in its festively bright autumn attire and, like an old friend, invited us into its tender embrace.
My beloved, gilded in autumn, slender birches, at the slightest breeze, generously dropped their golden “leaves-coins” to the ground and did not seem to notice that very soon they would be left alone with their nakedness and would bashfully wait for spring will again dress them in their annual delicate attire. And only the stately, evergreen spruces proudly shook off their old needles, preparing to become the only decoration of the forest during the long and, as always, very colorless winter. Yellow leaves rustled quietly underfoot, hiding the last russula and milk mushrooms. The grass under the leaves was warm, soft and moist and seemed to invite one to walk on it...
As usual, I kicked off my shoes and walked barefoot. I always loved walking barefoot everywhere, whenever the opportunity arose!!! True, these walks very often had to be paid for with a sore throat, which sometimes lasted quite a long time, but, as they say, “the game was worth the candle.” Without shoes, my feet became almost “sighted” and there was a particularly acute feeling of freedom from something unnecessary that seemed to interfere with breathing... It was a real, incomparable little pleasure and sometimes it was worth paying for it.
The guys and I, as always, split up in pairs and went in different directions. Very soon I felt that I had been walking alone for some time. I can’t say that this scared me (I wasn’t afraid of the forest at all), but I felt somehow uneasy from a strange feeling that someone was watching me. Deciding not to pay attention to this, I continued to calmly collect my mushrooms. But gradually the feeling of observation intensified and it became less pleasant.
I stopped, closed my eyes and tried to concentrate to try to see who was doing it, when suddenly I clearly heard someone’s voice that said: “That’s right...” And for some reason it seemed to me that it didn’t sound from outside, but only in my head. I stood in the middle of a small clearing and felt that the air around me began to vibrate strongly. A silver-blue, transparent shimmering pillar appeared right in front of me and a human figure gradually became denser in it. He was a very tall (by human standards) and powerful gray-haired man. For some reason I thought that he looked ridiculously like the statue of our god Perkunas (Perun), for whom bonfires were lit on the Holy Mountain on the night of June 24 every year.
How a Solovetsky cabin boy became a tester of the first naval ballistic and cruise missiles, was the first to fire an underwater missile salvo and circumnavigate the world underwater
The desire to be first just for the sake of being first rarely gives a person real victories. Much more often, gifts of fate go to those who stand in the first row for the sake of protecting their comrades, for the sake of their Motherland - because duty dictates so. The golden rain of awards and high titles rarely falls on the shoulders of such people, but the memory of them never dies. A striking example of this is the fate of Admiral Vadim Korobov, one of the most famous post-war submariners of the Soviet Union. Born on February 15, 1927 in Vologda, he served in the North all his life and became a real legend of the Northern Fleet - and, perhaps, of the entire Russian submarine fleet.
Admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union Vadim Korobov. Photo from the site http://lexicon.dobrohot.org
From the Vologda region to the Arkhangelsk region
“The future Hero of the Soviet Union, the legendary admiral grew up as a serious boy beyond his years...” - this is probably how this story would have begun if it had been written thirty or forty years ago. But we won’t start ours like that. Because offensively little is known about the childhood of the future vice admiral. What exactly? That his parents were, as indicated in the documents, employees, that he was born in Vologda, and spent his childhood in the Vinogradovsky district of the Arkhangelsk region. More precisely, in Vadik Korobov’s childhood, this area was called differently - Bereznikovsky. And he became Vinogradovsky only in 1940, receiving his name in honor of an active participant in the Civil War and one of the founders of the North Dvina military flotilla - Pavlin Vinogradov. He died in 1918 in a battle near the village of Shidrovo, which ten years later became part of the newly formed Berezniki district.
This is exactly how the mysterious at first glance phrase from the official biography of Vadim Korobov is explained: “In my childhood, I lived in the Vinogradovsky district of the Arkhangelsk region, studied at the Berezniki secondary school.” Berezniki is a regional center, which was never renamed along with the district. And in the village school, which is now called MBOU Bereznikovskaya Secondary School, to this day they are proud of one of their most famous graduates. In 2015, on September 1, the school unveiled a memorial plaque in honor of Vice Admiral Korobov: so that its students would remember, as they say on the school website, “the glorious exploits of heroes, ordinary soldiers and eminent admirals.” But then, in the early 1930s, no one could have thought which of Bereznikov’s students would become an all-Union celebrity...
Apparently, Vadim Korobov ended up in Berezniki when he was two or three years old - it’s impossible to establish more precisely without archival materials. The region was created in 1929, and most likely, the parents of the future admiral were transferred here “for strengthening,” providing the newly formed administration with experienced personnel from other regions - a common Soviet practice. And then - the ordinary fate of an ordinary boy born in the second half of the twenties. A poor childhood, a seven-year regional school, and then the war.
Jung, who did not end up in the war
Vadik Korobov met the Great Patriotic War as a fourteen-year-old teenager: he could neither go to the front nor go to school. So he would have languished in the rear, waiting for his call, which fell right at the very end of the war...
The creation of the famous school of cabin boys on the Solovetsky Islands changed everything. Yes, that’s right, in the old, pre-revolutionary spelling, this word was written in the order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Nikolai Kuznetsov dated May 25, 1942 “On the creation of a school for Navy cabin boys.” Thus, the obstinate commander-in-chief seemed to emphasize the continuity of the Solovetsky school in relation to its predecessors - the Kronstadt school of sea boys, created by Peter I in 1707, the School of cabin boys that appeared a century later at the Navigation School of the Russian Navy and the Kronstadt school of cabin boys revived in 1910.
The cabin boys from the first cohort of the Solovetsky school lived in such dugouts, built with their own hands. Photo from the site http://sy-museum.ru
Vadim Korobov was not included in the first intake of cadets at the Solovetsky school of cabin boys - and most likely not due to his age. For years it was quite suitable: in the Kuznetsov order there was clause 3, according to which the school was supposed to be “staffed with young Komsomol members and non-Komsomol members aged 15-16 years old, with a 6-7 grade education, exclusively by volunteers through Komsomol organizations in the regions in agreement with the Central Committee Komsomol". But he ended up in the second, the smallest - only 1,300 people, among whom was 16-year-old Vadim. In July 1943, at the height of the Battle of Kursk, the Vinogradovsky district military registration and enlistment office, on the recommendation of the district Komsomol committee, sent him to the Solovetsky school of young boys to study radio engineering.
During classes at the Solovetsky school of young boys. Photo from the site http://sy-museum.ru
How outstanding a student he was can be judged by the following two facts. First: almost immediately after Korobov’s arrival, he was elected Komsomol organizer of the second company of radio operators. Second: in July 1944, Korobova, among the best graduates of the Solovetsky school of cabin boys, was sent for further training to the newly liberated Leningrad at the newly created Leningrad Naval Preparatory School. It would seem like a complete collapse of hope! Instead of going into the thick of naval battles, defending the freedom of the country, taking revenge on the Nazis - back to the desk... But Vadim Korobov understood very early what the commander’s order meant. And he began to study textbooks, preparing to become not just a radio operator on a minesweeper or destroyer, but a naval officer, the future owner of the captain's bridge. And he passed this path surprisingly quickly.
First mate of the first missile
However, almost certainly this time seemed almost endless to the cadet of the Leningrad Naval Preparatory School Vadim Korobov. While he was sitting at his desk, the war ended, they returned - or did not return, which happened, alas, more often! - from military campaigns his classmates at the Solovetsky school of cabin boys. And he studied all the sciences: the standard “preparatory” curriculum included mathematics, physics, chemistry, literature and the Russian language, history and geography, foreign languages, physical education, and naval affairs. And here - again from study to study: after graduating from a preparatory school in 1946, Vadim Korobov immediately became a cadet of the Supreme Naval Order of Lenin, the Red Banner School. M.V. Frunze - the first and main forge of officer personnel of the Soviet Navy. And only in September 1950 - seven years after the military registration and enlistment office sent him to serve! - Lieutenant Korobov finally gets on a warship! Moreover, in fact, he returned home: the newly minted officer was assigned to the Northern Fleet.
And then it turns out that studying has not gone away - it just took a different form! Probably, it was precisely this long “training” entry into the service that gave the future vice admiral one of his most important skills - the ability to constantly learn and not shy away from any new knowledge. The first two years of service - from November 1950 to November 1952 - Lieutenant Vadim Korobov was the navigator of the medium submarine S-19 of the submarine training brigade. The skills and abilities of the young officer, and most importantly, the very ability to learn himself and teach others, were quickly appreciated by the commanders, and a month before the new year of 1953, Vadim Korobov became a cadet in the class of submarine commanders of the Higher Special Officer Classes of Underwater Diving and Anti-Submarine Defense at the Training Detachment them. S.M.Kirova.
In September of the same year, senior lieutenant Vadim Korobov returned to his submarine S-19, but as a senior assistant commander - he had only one step left to the highest position on the ship. But it’s not so easy to pass: you need to gain more experience, serve on different boats. And therefore, just five months later, in February 1954, Korobov, who received the next rank of captain-lieutenant, was sent to the Kronstadt naval base. There he was to participate in completing and training the crew of the Project 611 B-67 boat being built at Leningrad Plant No. 196 (now part of the Admiralty Shipyards).
Submarine B-67 on a voyage. Photo from the site http://www.uhlib.ru
This task turned out to be more difficult than it seemed at first glance. While senior lieutenant Korobov was racing his subordinates on submarines of the same type, at the very top they were deciding which of the new submarines would be used for experiments with the latest - sea-based nuclear missiles. And they decided that it would be the B-67. So it fell to senior officer Korobov to move the boat in tow along the White Sea-Baltic Canal from Leningrad to Molotovsk (as present-day Severodvinsk was called at that time). Because the commander of the submarine, captain II rank Fyodor Kozlov, as well as the commander of the warhead-2 - missile unit - senior lieutenant Semyon Bondin and 12 of his subordinates, sailors and foremen, went on a business trip to the Kapustin Yar training ground. They had to master a new weapon: the first Soviet ballistic missile for submarines, the R-11FM, created at the Sergei Korolev Design Bureau.
"New things are brewing"
For a young man - only 28 years old! - for the first mate, all this was a secret behind seven seals. Here’s how Vadim Korobov himself, already a vice admiral, spoke about it in one of his last interviews: “When I, then a lieutenant commander, was appointed as the first mate on the B-67 torpedo boat under construction (I’ll emphasize it especially) of the then new project 611, I even I couldn’t guess that there was already a government decision to re-equip this ship for testing the first naval missile R-11FM. Everything was kept secret. When they started cutting out missile silos, they didn’t even say anything. The boat was stationed in Molotovsk on the White Sea. I realized that new things were brewing only after the commander and several other crew members were sent to the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Trans-Volga region, where the “terrestrial” tests of the R-11FM began. Well, I was instructed to accept a choice of any of the barracks of the former Gulag as a coastal barracks. There are thorns all around, rotten floors, water, rats... It’s as if two eras have come together.”
It is noteworthy that this was not the first time that these two eras converged in the fate of Vadim Korobov. After all, the Solovetsky school of cabin boys was also located on the territory of the Solovetsky special-purpose camps - SLON. And before moving to the cells of the Solovetsky Monastery, the cabin boys lived in frame dugouts - 32 people in each, on three-tier bunks. Such dugouts were heated by potbelly stoves and lit by smokehouses - iron inkwells with wicks soaked in fish oil provided for lubricating boots.
No matter how difficult the living conditions in which the crew of the first missile submarine of the Soviet Union lived, work on the development of the submarine was in full swing. On September 11, 1955, the naval flag was raised on the B-67, and on the same day the boat was assigned to the 162nd separate division of repaired submarines at the Belomorsk naval base. Three days later, on the night of September 14-15, the first missile ammunition was loaded onto it. And a day later the boat went to sea for the first time - and immediately began firing rockets.
The launch of the R-11FM ballistic missile from the silo of the B-67 submarine. Photo from the site http://www.uhlib.ru
Even after his resignation, Admiral Vadim Korobov sparingly shared his memories of how the world’s first naval launch of the world’s first ballistic missile for submarines took place. Other test participants are not too talkative either. But some idea of the atmosphere of the first sea launches is given by a quote from the book of memoirs of academician Boris Chertok “Rockets and People”: “The time has come to go to sea. The base for the first missile submarine was Severodvinsk, which in the early 1950s was still called Molotovsk. This seaside city had everything we needed: a shipyard, a base for ground storage and testing of missiles, a base for submarine crews and, most importantly, an atmosphere of “maximum favorability” for our work. Seven missiles were prepared for the first sea tests. They were equipped with a new marine control system. The test and launch launch systems in the marine version “Saturn-M” and “Dolomite” were developed jointly with us and NII-885 by the maritime institutes MNII-1 and NII-10. To monitor the flight, telemetry receiving stations were installed on the shore. Observation and communication were carried out by a special ship. The onboard transmitting equipment for telemetry and orbit control was mounted in a non-detachable head section and worked with a slot antenna.
Practicing the emergency release of a missile from the B-67 submarine. Photo from the site http://www.uhlib.ru
The first launch of the R-11 FM missile from a submarine was carried out in the White Sea on September 16, 1955. Korolev, together with Isanin, personally supervised these tests. Seven launches in the White Sea were successful. At the same time, three missiles were launched after long-term storage. The launches were carried out in conditions of a stationary and moving boat at a speed of up to 10 knots and waves of up to 2-3 points. Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy (for shipbuilding - Author's note) Admiral was invited to the final launch in September 1955<Лев>Vladimirsky, Marshal<Митрофан>Nedelin (Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR for special weapons and missile technology. - Author's note), commanders of fleets and flotillas.
The process of the boat surfacing, the release of the mine cover, the rise of the rocket<…>Finally, the effective launch at exactly the right time caused thunderous applause from all the guests on board the destroyer. This was the beginning of arming the fleet with long-range ballistic missiles.”
“...Depart for Sormovo on the Volga”
The launch of the R-11FM ballistic missile was the first of the “first times”, of which there would be four more in the life of military submariner Vadim Korobov. The second “first time” for him was participation in the test launches of the first domestic sea-based cruise missile P-5. He carried them out, having already reached the position of submarine commander. After the successful launch on September 10, 1955, many B-67 crew members received incentives. Korobov also went for a promotion, in January 1957 becoming the commander of the S-146 submarine, modernized for new weapons. This is how he himself talks about it: “Being the first mate on the B-67, I seriously took up the study of “ballistics.” Moreover, Korolev let it slip several times that an intercontinental missile was already being prepared. It was planned to equip submarines with these missiles over time. In short, I personally saw the prospects. And the appointment to the “one hundred and forty-sixth” happened without any preliminary conversation. An encrypted message arrived: by order of the Commander-in-Chief N... he was appointed commander of the S-146, to leave for Sormovo on the Volga to receive the boat. I plucked up courage and gave a telegram to the Korolev Design Bureau, so that Sergei Pavlovich petitioned the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy to cancel this order, since I wanted to continue serving on a ship with ballistic missiles. There was no answer. Maybe the telegram was simply not sent from our communications center. I had to go to Gorky.”
Project 613 submarine, which included the S-146, while sailing in the ice. Photo from the site http://militaryrussia.ru
A familiar situation, isn't it? Once upon a time, in 1944, instead of a warring fleet - at the school, now, thirteen years later - a new torpedo boat instead of a missile one... But an order is an order, and Lieutenant Commander Vadim Korobov once again obeys it. Submits to become a pioneer again! And most likely, this appointment, unpleasant for him at first glance, was a manifestation of the highest trust on the part of the command. There are no coincidences in the fleet - there are patterns that are not immediately clear. And since Korobov was entrusted with a boat with the latest weapons, which was to be the first to test it, it means that the headquarters understood: it showed its best side in the previous test launches, and it will show in these ones as well. And they were not mistaken.
And again, a quote from an interview with Admiral Vadim Korobov: “Somewhere in April 1957, two months after my arrival in Gorky, an invitation to OKB-52 came. I immediately went to Reutov, where Chelomey’s design bureau was located. The conversation with Vladimir Nikolaevich began with the fact that the chief designer showed me a French magazine, where the P-5 (our secret missile!) was depicted in a longitudinal section on a colored insert. By the way, Chelomey leafed through the magazine with some special satisfaction. Like, look, the boat is just about to fire this missile, and the French already appreciate my work so well. And then the “new construction” everyday life began, then the boat was moved to the White Sea in the dock. We stood in Severodvinsk against the wall of the 402nd plant (later and now an enterprise for the construction of nuclear submarines - V.U.). The flight test plan broke down immediately after the rocket prototype was brought from the test site. It turned out that it did not fit into the container. Oh, and we cursed the engineers after that. We had to urgently dismantle the inside of the container and cut down the stainless steel. The factory crew (30 people) worked on the boat for a month and a half. We only went to sea in November.”
"The depths did not accept us"
To be more precise, work to bring the launch container to the required size dragged on until November 5, and it was clear that it was impossible to postpone the first launch: we needed to do it before winter. And so the boat went out for testing on November 20, accompanied by port icebreakers: no one knew whether the ice conditions would change dramatically, and the rocket launch had to be a bloody nose! “There was already pancake ice. And although he didn’t interfere with traffic yet, we were in a hurry,” recalls Vadim Korobov. - The launch took place in the evening. They were afraid that the impact of the gas jet on the durable hull would damage the membranes of the personnel of the 10th compartment. The sailors plugged their ears with cotton wool, we installed sensors, but nothing happened. The rocket went. For about a minute or a minute and a half we saw the starter glowing. Then he disappeared, and telemetry showed that the P-5 “went out of range” and fell into the sea. Instead of the required 350, it flew 35-40 km. The crew worked correctly. There were problems with the rocket. But the reasons for the breakdown were not communicated to me. That’s why I can’t name them now. Unlike Korolev, who during the tests of the R-11FM in 1955-56 went to sea for each launch, Chelomey said goodbye to us at the wall, wished us good luck - and began to wait for the results.”
Submarine S-146 testing the P-5 cruise missile. Photo from the site http://militaryrussia.ru
The failure hit the test program hard: they were frozen, and the submarine spent the winter at the 402nd plant in Molotovsk. “Flight design tests continued from spring until late autumn of 1958,” Admiral Vadim Korobov continues his story. - And with the beginning of freeze-up on the White Sea, the S-146 moved to the Northern Fleet (Olenya Bay) to conduct state tests of the P-5. And with each new launch (and there were about fifty of them), the rocket increasingly acquired its combat qualities. The shortcomings were eliminated over time, especially in the management system. The autopilot was given not only the range based on flight time, but also the altitude based on the barometric sensor. But even on the White Sea near Arkhangelsk there may be one pressure, and on the other side, that is, near the Kola Peninsula, it can be completely different. It is impossible to take all this into account at once, and the missile goes to the target depending on the entered data on the pressure at the launch site. It was after numerous firings with the C-146 that they decided to abandon the barometric altitude sensor. So the P-5D complex with a radiometric altitude sensor soon appeared.
Diagram of the first Soviet sea-launched cruise missile P-5. Photo from the site http://kollektsiya.ru
But one day all the test results could be buried at the bottom of the Barents Sea. Due to the fault of my mechanic, when diving to periscope depth, the boat unexpectedly failed. And below there are about hundreds of meters. “Under the keel 50... 15... 10 meters!” - such reports broke my heart. “5 meters,” - only then did the “eska” stop, and then it was sharply thrown upward. The boat flew to the surface up to the keel and lay on its side. Electrolyte splashed out in the second compartment, throwing everyone up... But there didn’t seem to be any serious damage. The rocket is intact. If not for the missile container, the S-146 could have capsized. The depths did not accept us only due to the design of the boat.”
First underwater launch
However, the submarine remained intact, the launches were completed successfully, and on June 19, 1959, the P-5 sea-launched cruise missile was adopted by the Soviet Navy. Based on the results of all tests, the commander of the S-146 received his first military order - the Order of the Red Star. And just two months later, the newly minted order bearer - here they are, the whims of naval decisions! - returned to the B-67 submarine. On it, Vadim Korobov received his third “first time”: under his command, the boat launched the world’s first underwater salvo of a ballistic missile.
The first launch of the S-4.7 ballistic missile from the B-67, which the boat carried out in August 1959, was unsuccessful. Although all the sensors showed that the launch had taken place, the rocket remained standing in the shaft and took off only after the boat surfaced and the shaft lid was opened, frightening both the submariners and the observers on the Aeronaut experimental ship. After this failure, the commander of the submarine changed - Korobov returned to it. But his first underwater launch was also unsuccessful.
B-67 commander, captain II rank Vadim Korobov. Photo from the site http://www.uhlib.ru
Vadim Korobov behind the periscope. Photo from the site http://vpk-news.ru
Another quote from an interview with Vadim Korobov: “On August 14, 1960, we went out for the second shooting. For me, shooting from under water is, naturally, a first. Immersion. I'm in the conning tower, Kirtok is in the central post. I command: “Fill the mine!” And then there was a blow, the boat shook.<…>We float up under the cabin lid and try to open the lid automatically. But the lid was jammed. Several attempts are useless. I was only able to open it manually. We surface and run out onto the bridge. The rocket is in the silo, the gyro devices are working. But... the “head” of the rocket is crushed on four sides. What to do?<…>You can climb into the shaft under the engine through the lower hole, open the mechanical valve and bleed the air from the cylinder. Then the rocket is completely safe. I turned for help to the designers who went out to shoot. They looked at me in bewilderment: “Under the nozzle? Vadim Konstantinovich, we are not fools...” It was necessary to build personnel for the missile warhead. There were people willing to perform the risky operation. The sergeant-major of the 1st class of the old-timers climbed in. Another sailor helped him. Unfortunately, I forgot their last names. Let's be honest: the guys accomplished a feat. Moreover, having saved the rocket, we found out the cause of the accident, and this, as it turned out, was an elementary violation of technology. A pipe runs along the shaft cover, through which air escapes into the tank when the shaft is filled with water. The pipe was higher than the lid. Typical factory defect! When the lid was closed, the pipe was crushed. This means that the flow area and water pressure have changed when the upper level of the shaft is filled. The water crushed the “head” of the rocket.”
And only on September 10, 1960, the first successful underwater launch of a ballistic missile in the USSR took place from a B-67. Vadim Korobov recalls: “<Ракета стартовала>from a depth of 30 meters at a boat speed of 3.2 knots. Of my superiors, the only person on board was the chairman of the commission, Captain 1st Rank Kirtok. Many no longer believed in success. The S-4.7 rocket did not go into production due to its short flight range, but it gave impetus to further research. Diesel boats of the 629th project were already being mass-produced in Severodvinsk, which were soon modernized for R-21 missiles, launched from under water and having a range of up to 1,400 km.”
The first salvo and the first circumnavigation
In September 1961, Captain II Rank Vadim Korobov left the B-67 submarine for the second time - and this time for good. The submariner became a student of the Naval Order of Lenin Academy (the current Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Navy "Naval Academy named after Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union N. G. Kuznetsov"), which he graduated in 1964, and in 1965 he became the commander of the modernized nuclear missile submarine K-33. On it, Captain 1st Rank Vadim Korobov experienced his fourth “first time”: under his command, in June 1967, a nuclear submarine for the first time in the country carried out an underwater salvo with all its ammunition - three R-21 ballistic missiles.
Submarine K-33 undergoing testing. Photo from the site http://svpg.ru
Rear Admiral Vadim Korobov experienced his last, fifth “first time” in 1976. Then, under his command, a tactical group consisting of the missile submarine cruiser K-171 (commander - captain 1st rank Eduard Lomov) and the multi-purpose submarine K-469 guarding it (commander - captain 2nd rank Viktor Urezchenko) made a unique transition from the Northern to the Pacific fleet of the southern way - around Cape Horn. For 80 days, the submarines never surfaced - only when leaving the bases in Gremikha and Zapadnaya Litsa and when entering the base in Vilyuchinsk, a total of a little more than a hundred miles out of a total distance of less than 22 thousand!
Project 667B submarine, which included the K-171. Photo from the site http://files.balancer.ru 
Northern Fleet. The Project 671 submarine, which included the K-469, is returning to base. Photo from the site podlodka.info
For this unprecedented transition, six submarine officers, including Rear Admiral Vadim Korobov, were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on May 25, 1976. The high award was the highest recognition of the merits of the former Solovetsky cabin boy, who gave his entire life to the Russian fleet. Vadim Korobov remained in service until July 14, 1989 - that is, exactly 46 years! During this time, he managed to go through all its steps - from a cabin boy and cadet to the commander of submarine formations, and he retired with the rank of admiral, from the post of admiral inspector of the Navy of the Main Inspectorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense. By this time, his black naval jacket was decorated with the “Golden Star” of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree (award for the 40th anniversary of the Victory) and 15 medals .
But what about the fate that gave Vadim Korobov such a wonderful opportunity - to become a discoverer five times in his life? No fate decided this! All this is his own merit. What else does one deserve who formulated his officer’s credo like this: “I think that the essence of military officer service lies in the fact that a person who has taken on this difficult duty fulfills it conscientiously, sees in it the content of his life, finds the highest moral satisfaction in his work. If not, if he serves “from” to “to,” then he is simply earning a living. But to be honest, it’s boring to exist like this.”
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Vadim Konstantinovich Korobov was the senior assistant to the commander of the B-67 submarine. On September 16, 1955, the first launch of a Soviet sea-based ballistic missile was made from this submarine. He commanded the S-146 submarine, which first tested the first Soviet naval cruise missile, the P-5 (1957).
“On Saturday, on the night of April 12, 1998, Vadim Konstantinovich Korobov passed away... Commander of the nuclear submarine K-33, commander of a division, flotilla of strategic submarines, chief of staff of the Northern Fleet, admiral inspector of the Main Navy inspections of the USSR Ministry of Defense - these are only some pages of his bright biography. The path of Admiral V.K. Korobov was marked by many state awards. In 1976, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union... Vadim Konstantinovich was active in public life even after. left military service. Despite his age and deteriorating health, he sacrificed all his strength, passing on the invaluable experience of the older generation." ( Myasnikov Evgeniy. In memory of Admiral Korobov... Place of publication is unknown. 04.1998)Submariners tested missiles
and lived in the old ELEPHANT barracks
- A well-known fact, one might say historical: on September 16, 1955, for the first time in the world, a ballistic missile was launched from a submarine in the White Sea. It was the royal rocket R-11FM. And the submarine with tactical number B-67 was commanded by captain 2nd rank Fedor Ivanovich Kozlov. Chief designer Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was on board. And then you were the senior assistant commander - the second man on the first Soviet submarine missile ship. Is this fate, Vadim Konstantinovich?In what sense?
- The fact is that throughout your entire service you had to be a pioneer in the development of sea-based missile weapons. I don’t think you can find another person like him. Or am I exaggerating?
Then fate. I'll say this. After all, the officer himself rarely chooses his fate. You see, when I, then a lieutenant commander, at the end of 1954, was appointed as the first mate on the B-67 torpedo boat under construction (I emphasize especially) of the then new Project 611, I could not even guess that there was already a government decision to re-equip this ship for testing the first naval missile R-11FM. Everything was kept secret. When they started cutting out missile silos, they didn’t even say anything. The boat was stationed in Molotovsk (since 1957 the city of Severodvinsk) on the White Sea. I realized that new things were brewing only after the commander and several other crew members were sent to the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Trans-Volga region, where the “terrestrial” tests of the R-11FM began. Well, I was assigned to take charge of the coastal barracks. It was as if two eras had come together." ( Vladimir Urban. Underwater start. Red Star. Moscow. July 1, 1995 p.7)
Solovetsky cabin boy's trip around the world
Admiral Vadim Konstantinovi Korobov was born on February 15, 1927 in Vologda, lived in the Vologda and Arkhangelsk regions. “At the age of 16, at his personal request, he was sent to the school of cabin boys of the Northern Fleet, which was located on the Solovetsky Islands. A year later, as one of the capable students, Vadim was sent to Leningrad to study...In 1955, a ballistic missile was launched on the surface for the first time from the B-67 submarine, on which Vadim Korobov was the senior assistant commander. Five years later, the submarine, commanded by Vadim Konstantinovich, launched a ballistic missile from under water for the first time in the USSR.
A historical event in the life of V.K. Korobov was a circumnavigation of the world underwater from January to April 1976 as the commander of a group of a strategic missile submarine cruiser and a nuclear torpedo submarine. The group left the KSF base on the Kola Peninsula without ever surfacing, crossed the equator, reached Antarctic latitudes, dodging icebergs, passed the Drake Strait and other dangerous areas for navigation, and arrived safely at their native shores. For the exemplary performance of the command’s assignment and the courage, bravery and skill demonstrated at the same time, V.K. Korobov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union." ( Sergey Goryachev. The life around the world of Admiral Korobov. Red North. Vologda. 03/19/2003)