- President
- Kliment Voroshilov
- Prime minister
- Georgy Malenkov , Nikolai Bulganin
- General secretary
- Georgy Malenkov , Nikita Khrushchev
- Preceded by
- Himself (as Minister of the Navy)
- Succeeded by
- Sergey Gorshkov
- Born
- ( 1904-07-24 ) 24 July 1904, Medvedki , Russian Empire
- Died
- 6 December 1974 (1974-12-06) (aged 70), Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1924–1956)
- Allegiance
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1919–1922), Soviet Union (1922–1956)
- Branch service
- Soviet Navy
- Years of service
- 1919–1956
- Rank
- Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union
- Commands
- 5th Fleet (1950–1951), Pacific Fleet (1938–1939), Cruiser Chervona Ukraina (1933–1936)
- Battles wars
- Spanish Civil War World War II Winter War Black Sea campaigns