Alexander Marinesko
Soviet naval officer
Died when: 50 years 314 days (610 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko (Russian: ????????? ???????? ?????????, Ukrainian: ????????? ???????? ???i?????, Romanian: Alexandru Marinescu; 15 January [O.S. 2 January] 1913 – 25 November 1963) was a Soviet naval officer and, during World War II, the captain of the submarine S-13 which sank the German military transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff.
The most successful Soviet submarine commander in terms of gross register tonnage (GRT) sunk, with 42,000 GRT to his name, he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1990.
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