(2000-03-06 ) (53 years old)

Alexander Ivanovich Otrakovsky(January 3, Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, USSR - March 6, Vedeno, Chechen Republic, Russia) - Russian military leader. Chief of the Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy (1992-2000). Hero of the Russian Federation (2000), major general.

Biography

Since 1990 - Deputy Chief of the Coastal Forces of the Red Banner Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.

The memorial plaque was installed in Severomorsk, on the house where Alexander Otrakovsky lived.

Awards

• Hero of the Russian Federation - for services to the Motherland, awarded by Presidential Decree Russian Federation No. 592 of March 28, 2000 (posthumously),
• Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd class

Write a review on the article "Otrakovsky, Alexander Ivanovich"

Literature

• Belyaev V. N. "Who's Who in the Murmansk Region". Biographical guide. - St. Petersburg-Murmansk, 2004;
• Vasiliev S. Ya. “Wish me military happiness!” .. - Murmansk, 2007.
• Dementiev O. V., Klevtsov V. V. “Step into immortality”. - M.: Zvonnitsa-MG, 2007. - 336 p. - ISBN 978-5-88093-146-0.

Notes

Links

An excerpt characterizing Otrakovsky, Alexander Ivanovich

- Oh, how much light-o-skov! ... And class-and-how, ba-a-tuski !!! ... - in complete delight, lisping squeaked, spinning "top" on his mother's knees, a three-year-old baby . - And ba-a-boski! ... And what boboski-s-s!
I stared at him dumbfounded, and for a while I sat like that, unable to utter a word. And the baby, as if nothing had happened, happily continued to mumble and break out of his mother’s hands holding him tightly in order to “feel” all these “pretty things” that suddenly unexpectedly fell from somewhere, and even so bright and so colorful.... Stella, realizing that someone else saw her, with joy began to show him various funny fairy-tale pictures, which finally fascinated the baby, and he, with a happy squeal, jumped on his mother's knees from the wild delight pouring "over the edge" ...
- Girl, girl, who are you girl?! Oh, ba-a-tyuski, what a big mi-i-ska !!! And quite creepy! Mama, mama, can I take him home?
His wide-open blue eyes enthusiastically caught every new appearance of the “bright and unusual”, and his happy face shone with joy - the baby accepted everything that happened in a childish way, as if that was how it should have been ...
The situation was completely out of control, but I did not notice anything around, thinking at that moment only about one thing - the boy saw!!! I saw it just as I saw it!.. So, it was still true that such people exist somewhere else?.. And it means that I was completely normal and not at all lonely, as I thought at first!. So, it really was Dar? .. Apparently, I was too dumbfounded and looked at him intently, as the confused mother blushed a lot and immediately rushed to “calm down” her little son, so that only no one could hear what he was talking about ... and immediately began to prove to me that “he just invents everything, and that the doctor says (!!!) that he has a very violent fantasy ... and you shouldn’t pay attention to him! ..”. She was very nervous, and I saw that she would very much like to leave here right now, if only to avoid possible questions ...
“Please don't worry! I pleaded softly. - Your son does not invent - he sees! Same as me. You must help him! Please don't take him to the doctor again, your boy is special! And the doctors will kill it all! Talk to my grandmother - she will explain a lot to you ... Just do not take him to the doctor anymore, please! .. - I could not stop, because my heart ached for this little, gifted boy, and I wildly wanted what it would be no need to "save" it!..
“Look, now I’ll show him something and he will see - but you don’t, because he has a gift, but you don’t, and I quickly recreated Stella’s red dragon.
“Oh-oh-oh, what a hundred-oh is this?! ..” the boy clapped his hands in delight. - It's a dlaconsik, right? Like in a fairy tale - dlakonsik? .. Oh, how beautiful he is!
“I also had a gift, Svetlana ...” the neighbor whispered softly. “But I won’t let my son suffer the same way.” I have already suffered for both ... He must have another life! ..
I even jumped in surprise!.. So she saw?! And I knew?! .. - here I just burst out of indignation ...
"Didn't you think he might have the right to choose for himself?" It's his life! Just because you couldn't handle it doesn't mean he can't either! You have no right to take away his gift from him even before he realizes that he has it! .. This is like murder - you want to kill a part of him that he has not even heard of yet! .. - hissed indignantly at I am her, but inside I just "stand on end" from such a terrible injustice!
I wanted to convince this stubborn woman to leave her wonderful baby alone! But I clearly saw from her sad, but very confident look that it’s unlikely that at the moment I will be able to convince her of something at all, and I decided to leave my attempts for today, and later talk with my grandmother, and perhaps together come up with what could be done here ... I just looked sadly at the woman and asked again:
“Please don’t take him to the doctor, you know he’s not sick!”
She only smiled tightly in response, and quickly taking the baby with her, went out onto the porch, apparently to breathe fresh air, which (I was sure of it) she really lacked at the moment ...
I knew this neighbor very well. She was a rather pleasant woman, but what struck me the most at one time was that she was one of those people who tried to completely "isolate" their children from me and poisoned me after the "lighting the fire" accident! .. (Although her eldest son, we must give him his due, never betrayed me and, despite any prohibitions, still continued to be friends with me). She, who, as it now turned out, knew better than anyone else that I was a completely normal and harmless girl! And that I, just like she once, was just looking for the right way out of that “incomprehensible and unknown” into which fate had so unexpectedly thrown me ...
Without a doubt, fear must be a very strong factor in our lives if a person can so easily betray and so easily turn away from someone who needs help so much, and whom he could easily help if not for the same one, so deeply and reliably settled in him fear ...

Memorial Day of Saints Peter and Fevronia, July 8, is celebrated in the country as the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity

A teacher of history and social studies by profession, Olga worked in Severomorsk as a graphic designer in residency, where military doctors trained, and liked the lonely general at that time, whom she did not know anything about, because he had just arrived at a new duty station.

The general was easier. It was not easy for the division commander to find out everything about the employee working in the military camp, but how to get to know each other, talk?

Making an appointment with the divisional commander seems to be inappropriate. And then he and his doctor friend made such a joke. The general went under a drip, although there was no need for it, and the doctor ran headlong to Olga Alekseevna to ask her "for the sake of all saints" to sit by the bedside of a "very sick" person who definitely needs to be looked after.

Why don't you have nurses? - Olga was angry, she had a lot of her work at that time.

- Honey, I'm begging you...

Already at the second date at the dropper, the general proposed to her.

- I was afraid, worried. By that time I had my own small apartment. And a daughter from his first marriage. And he, seeing my situation, made another trick. He invited all his friends and me to the restaurant, and there, in front of everyone, he again offered me to become his wife. And I couldn't refuse him. And they got along well with their daughter. She was born on January 2, and Sasha was born on the 3rd, and they were very similar characters. And I became friends with his son from his first marriage, Ivan - at that time the captain of the marine brigade.

The general's name was Alexander Ivanovich Otrakovsky. He was the chief of the coastal troops of the Northern Fleet, stationed in Severomorsk. On March 5, 2000, the general died in Chechnya. He was not struck by a sniper bullet. A mine-stretching did not watch. He didn't get ambushed. The general was killed by fatigue: his heart stopped in his sleep.

This is what, I thought, should be the heart of a general that could not stand the war? And what should be the war, from which even the hearts of combat generals stop?

General Otrakovsky began to serve on the Black Sea, then on the Baltic, and then a nomadic military wave washed him up on the shores of the northern seas. He had just been given another state-owned apartment with state-owned numbered furniture, and he began to equip it with extraordinary passion.

“Think about what else needs to be done,” he urged his wife.

“Sasha, but this is all official, then it will be a pity to leave it,” Olga tried to object.

“Ah, woman, you don’t understand anything,” the Russian general, born in the Caucasus, got excited. – I don’t know how long God has given me to be on this sinful earth, and I want to live now.

Planted flowers in pots. On vacation - and they rested on the sea - they picked up palm trees. He even called from the war, asking how their palm trees were?

“Your palm trees are growing,” answered the wife.

Home was more than home to him. After business trips and exercises, after planes, trains, hotels, field tents, he departed here with his soul. He was very simple in everyday life, and unpretentious in food - he loved fried potatoes, pickles and sauerkraut. Yes, even hot pepper, so that everything burns in the mouth. At home, he gladly gave himself into submission to his wife and was absolutely homely. In sweatpants and slippers, he could easily pass for some accountant or house manager. But when, going to the exercises, he put on his spotted uniform, he was transformed before our eyes. He became slim, fit - an absolutely amazing man.

That's what Olga said about him.

Once, at a local factory, the general ordered for his wife and brought home a kitchen that Olga had long dreamed of.

- I go, iron tables, cabinets, and he is happy. Dreamed of my own home. “Here,” he said, “let's retire, build a house and breed ostriches.” "Why ostriches?" I laughed. "Well, quail then." “So you are a general, you are supposed to command” - “So I will command them. Commander of the quail division! Sounds like it...?

I specially went to Olga Alekseevna to the North. I needed this meeting. For no one else could tell about the general better than his wife.

- What was he like? different. Lived to the fullest. As in the song: walk - walk like that, shoot - shoot like that.

Alexander Ivanovich had many friends. Even in the Caucasus. After all, he was born in Kutaisi and spoke only Georgian until the age of three. In Chechnya, during the war, he also had kunak friends. They brought him what he loved - wild garlic, all kinds of greens.

I say: "Sasha, be careful, because these are Chechens." And he: “Woman, you don’t understand anything – Chechens are different.” Here, in Severomorsk, he often arranged collective forays into nature. Loved to sing. His favorite song was an old hussar song: “Enough grief to grieve, whether it’s a matter of camping under tents in the field ...”. True, he knew only one verse from it. But he did not invite guests to the house. He wanted me to be the only one in the house. Communication was more than enough for him at work. After all, the service is such that there was no rest day or night. I hated the telephone with a fierce hatred. He didn't let me sleep. And if they call at night, then something bad has happened ...

What else? Alexander Ivanovich could not stand office work. He said: well, I will come there, I will solve my problems, and then what? Here in the field I felt like a fish in water.

- He passed everything through himself and was not indifferent to everything that happened in the army, country, world. He couldn't show it. And he could explode - he had an explosive character. Swears plenty, then calms down. He was strict with his soldiers, but not as a boss, but as a father. Loved them, shore. Proud of every little boy. I remember one guy got his face slashed. He, like all marines, was under two meters, and Alexander Ivanovich was small in stature. And now the general stands almost on tiptoe and wipes the blood from the soldier's face. And with such warmth looks at him ...

- He slept very little. I got up every hour. In order to somehow deceive insomnia, he went to check the posts. I gave him sleeping pills and brewed soothing teas. But it was necessary to know Alexander Ivanovich. This is such a rebellious man! For a day or two I tried to be submissive, like a lamb, they say, do with me what you want. And then - everything, leave me alone, once ...

The Caucasian war found the commander of the marines on vacation. He could not have been in that war. I tried to get through to the commander of the united group of troops, General Troshev, but did not get through and urgently flew to Murmansk. And there, having completed the necessary formalities and taking with him the best fighters and among them his own son, he flew off to war. He could not fail to take his son again out of duty and conscience. And he did not take it because to keep him there under his wing. He practically did not see Vanya during the war. He walked ahead with scouts, and the general was supposed to be at headquarters.

Now they say that what the marines did in Chechnya should be written down in military textbooks. They were thrown onto the dominating ridges in the very cold. And they, with frostbitten hands, feet, teeth, held on to these ridges and held them. The fights with the enemy were fierce. Paratroopers of Pskov were dying nearby. Then it was the turn of the Marines. The group in which Ivan Otrakovsky performed a combat mission was completely destroyed. Ivan was saved by a miracle. A few days before the tragic battle, he and several other people were sent to rest in Severomorsk.

“I even felt on the phone how much he was worried about the death of his fighters,” Olga Alekseevna told about her husband. “Maybe those losses hurt his heart…”

"But isn't the general accustomed to death?" - I ask, - After all, both in the school and in the academy they taught him one thing - to kill.

“He was taught to defend,” the general’s widow gently corrects me.

The day before the tragedy, Olga talked to her husband on the phone. She knew that the command, by order of order, tried to force Alexander Ivanovich, who had “stayed up” for several months in the Caucasus mountains, to return to Severomorsk, where he would rest, cool his nerves in the frosty north breeze. And he did everything to stay in Chechnya. And she was angry with him for it.

“I can’t leave them here alone,” he explained to his wife this intransigence, referring to his soldiers and officers, comrades in arms. – Do you understand what the duty and honor of an officer are...

She understood. But I didn’t understand how one person had so much duty and honor. Probably from God. Because there were no soldiers in his family. The general absorbed the concept of honor, apparently, among the officers of the Marine Corps. And debt - a person either has it, or he doesn't.

They did not return to the topic of vacation in that last telephone conversation. Chatted about all sorts of trifles. The husband asked with an opportunity to send the Kola beer, which every Severomorian considers the best beer in the world. And a razor. And also a collar for a dog - he got a Caucasian shepherd dog at the front, and she needed her own dog ammunition.

In short, we talked about everything. And suddenly the general said:

- Ol, if something happens to me, bury me in Severomorsk.

She fainted.

- Yes, what are you? Don't you dare think bad. You have to come home, you hear? I'm waiting for you. We have so much more to do...

“You must remember this,” the general summed up under that last telephone conversation.

And Olga hadn't been able to sleep for three nights in a row. If she fell asleep, she woke up covered in sweat and with a sharp sense of anxiety. "If anything happens to me..." Shouldn't happen. It doesn't need to happen!

There was an awkward silence that morning. A staff officer came running, asked if Olga Alekseevna was at work, and ran away, saying that he was looking for flowers, promising to return. For some reason, I thought: probably, Alexander Ivanovich was promoted. Then she was summoned to the division headquarters, where all the senior officers gathered, and for some reason an ambulance was standing at the entrance. She doesn't remember what happened next...

General Alexander Otrakovsky was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia. A large landing ship of the Northern Fleet bears his name.

Olga remained in the garrison for some time, but then left for her homeland. She lives in Voronezh.

Especially for "Century"

The article was published within the social significant project Russia and Revolution. 1917 - 2017" using state support funds allocated as a grant in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated December 08, 2016 No. public organization"Russian Union of Rectors".

Cardiac
Russian troops lost another general in Chechnya. On Monday night, in the village of Vedeno, at his command post, the head of the coastal troops of the Northern Fleet, the commander of the Marine Corps in the federal forces, 53-year-old Major General Alexander Otrakovsky, died of a heart attack. And although this death belongs to the category " non-combat losses", the general himself was a real fighter. Largely thanks to him, the Marines became the most combat-ready units and at the same time fought almost without loss.
The federal grouping lost its first general in January. This was the deputy commander of the North group, Major General Mikhail Malofeev, who died during the storming of Grozny. The next was Alexander Otrakovsky. True, his death was quite peaceful: he died in his sleep from heart failure. This was the third attack.
Otrakovsky's heart began to play pranks even during the first Chechen war. They say it was because he took the deaths of his Marines hard. True, compared with other troops, their losses then were not so many - 64 killed. But for Otrakovsky it was more than enough. As a result, the general even had to be sent to the hospital, to St. Petersburg. But he, having recovered a little, fled from there again to the war.
North Caucasus for Otrakovsky was not a stranger. He was born there, grew up and began his military career - he studied at Ordzhonikidzevsky Suvorov School. Then in 1969 he graduated from the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms command school and connected his life with the fleet. More precisely, with the marines: nine years in the Black Sea Fleet, then a military academy, and after it, nine years in the Baltic and the Northern Fleet. He went on ocean trips, where he spent a total of nine years again. He was repeatedly offered high and non-dusty positions in Moscow, but he preferred to remain in the army.
In 1995, Otrakovsky again ended up in the Caucasus - he commanded the air assault brigades of the Marines of the Northern Fleet. They were called "polar bears". Otrakovsky was awarded the Order of Courage for military merit.
He took into account the experience of the battles and made adjustments to the training system for the marines. As a result, the airborne assault battalion of the Northern Fleet, which was under his direct supervision, became the best in Russia. The current war has confirmed this.
Last September, Otrakovsky was appointed commander of all marines in Chechnya. Side by side with him fought his son Ivan - captain, commander of a company of marines of the Northern Fleet. Two weeks ago, Ivan received a shell shock, and he was sent to the Arctic. The father had every right to go with his son (all officers and ensigns had already gone home on leave), but refused. He believed that more needed in the war.
He really was needed. And not only as a warrior, but also as a diplomat. “We have a short conversation with the bandits,” Otrakovsky said, “they beat and will beat. normal people, ordinary people we are common, human language find. With our combat experience, take any locality easier than winning over people. But the psychology of a Chechen is a delicate thing.”
Considering the subtlety of the Chechen psychology, the general conducted all negotiations with the locals in dress uniform. I brought it with me specially. It made a greater impression on the Chechens than army camouflage and guns. So, for example, he managed to agree on the surrender of the village of Novogroznensky without a single shot.
At the end of last year, the command presented Otrakovsky to the title of Hero of Russia. Now he will become a Hero posthumously.

VYACHESLAV B-GUDKOV, VLADIMIR B-MATYASH

The large landing ship "Alexander Otrakovsky" is the eleventh in the first series of 12 ships of the project 775, the construction of which was carried out at the shipyard "Stochni Midnight im. Bokhaterev Westerplaty, Gdansk, Poland. Since 1996 it has tail number 031.

The ship is intended for amphibious landing on an unequipped coast and for the transfer of troops and cargo by sea. Capable of transporting different kinds armored vehicles, including tanks.

It was laid down at the shipyard under building number 775/11 as "SDK-55". In 1977 it was renamed "BDK-55". July 30, 1978 was introduced into the Northern Fleet.

Main characteristics: Displacement 4080 tons. Length 112.5 meters, width 15 meters, draft 3.7 meters. Travel speed 18 knots. Cruising range 6000 miles at 12 knots. The crew of 77 people, including 7 officers.

Power plant: 2 diesels, 2 propellers, power 19200 hp

Capacity: Up to 500 tons of equipment and cargo and 225 paratroopers can be placed on board.

Armament: 2 twin 57 mm AK-725 artillery mounts, 2 launchers of the A-215 Grad-M multiple launch rocket system, 4 launchers of the Strela-2 portable anti-aircraft missile system.

May 09, 2001 was renamed "Alexander Otrakovsky" in honor of the Russian military figure, Hero of Russia Major General Alexander Otrakovsky (born January 3, 1947 in Kutaisi, died March 6, 2000). He was buried on March 10, 2000 in the city of Severomorsk, on the Alley of Heroes.

In 2009, he took part in the Ladoga-2009 and Zapad-2009 operational-strategic exercises.

From July 10 to August 29, 2012 he performed tasks in the areas of the Barents, Norwegian and North Seas, in Atlantic Ocean, as well as in various areas of the Mediterranean Sea, together with the ships and vessels of the Baltic, Black Sea and Northern Fleets under a single command, which was carried out by Rear Admiral Vladimir Kasatonov, commander of the Kola flotilla of diverse forces of the Northern Fleet, from the board of the large landing ship "George the Victorious".

In 2012 academic year coastal troops of the Northern Fleet for the first time in the history of the Russian Navy on the unequipped coast of the islands of the Novosibirsk archipelago in the Arctic. During the navigation of the ships of the Northern Fleet in the Arctic regions, for the first time in the history of the fleet, a unit of marines landed on the coast of Kotelny Island, which is part of the New Siberian Islands archipelago, located between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea. The landing was carried out from the board of the large landing ship "Alexander Otrakovsky" on caterpillar amphibious transporters PTS-M.

In July 2013, the military prosecutor's office of the Federation Council stated that counterfeit bottom-outboard fittings were installed on the ship, which could cause the ship to sink. 35, the shipyard responded by saying that the fittings were of high quality and could not cause the ship to sink. On July 2, 2013, a criminal case was initiated under Part 3 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The command of the Northern Fleet imposed restrictions on the operation of the BDK.

On October 09, 2013, the crew of the ship of personnel and equipment of units of a separate rocket and artillery brigade involved in rocket firing.

November 7, 2014 in the Barents Sea, two warships and support vessels of the Northern Fleet to organize interaction as part of a detachment under a single command. On November 19, a detachment of ships and support vessels of the Northern Fleet, led by a large anti-submarine ship, left Severomorsk for the Barents Sea and. The detachment also included the large landing ship "Alexander Otrakovsky", the rescue tug "SB-406" and the tanker "Dubna". On December 01, a detachment of ships and support vessels of the Northern Fleet left the English Channel and. According to a message dated January 04, 2015, after the completion of the scheduled preventive maintenance and replenishment of stocks of materiel in the Novorossiysk naval base Black Sea Fleet, BDK . March 29 for the third time since the beginning of 2015. 08 April after the third deployment in the Mediterranean. April 17 and for the fourth time headed for the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year. April 28 . He took part in the Russian-Chinese naval exercise, which took place in the Mediterranean Sea from May 17 to 21. May 23 and returned to the Black Sea. 01 June and headed for the Mediterranean Sea. July 3 once again and entered the Black Sea. The crew of the ship was the best in the Northern Fleet in the 2015 academic year. February 18, 2016 through the Bosphorus, heading for the Mediterranean Sea. According to a message dated June 30 of the Northern Fleet, after the successful completion of the tasks of a long-range voyage, the duration of which was 588 days.

According to a message dated March 01, 2017, the crew of the ship, performing the planned tasks of the combat training course in the Northern Fleet training ground in the Barents Sea, using standard weapons and technical means, missile and air strikes conditional enemy. According to a report dated April 06, he completed tasks at the fleet combat training range in the Barents Sea in support of a sea minesweeper

ABOUT Trakovsky Alexander Ivanovich - Chief of the Coastal Forces of the Red Banner Northern Fleet, Commander of the Marine Corps in the Chechen Republic, Major General.

Born on January 3, 1947 in the city of Kutaisi (now the Republic of Georgia). Russian. From workers. In 1959 he graduated from five classes high school in the city of Rustavi, Georgian SSR. In the same year he entered the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov military school in the city of Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), which he successfully completed in 1966.

IN Armed Forces USSR since 1966. In 1969 he graduated from the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School named after V.I. Lenin. From 1969 to 1978 he served in various command positions in a separate marine regiment of the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet: from a platoon commander to a marine battalion commander. In 1981 he graduated military academy named after M.V. Frunze, and then continued to serve as head of the operational department of the marine brigade of the twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet. Since November 1984 - commander of the 336th separate guards brigade Marine Corps of the Baltic Fleet (Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region).

From May 1990 - Deputy Chief, and from November 1992 - Chief of the Coastal Troops of the Northern Fleet.

Major General Otrakovsky A.I. from January to March 1995, he took part in the restoration of constitutional order in the Chechen Republic: commander of the operational group of coastal troops of the Northern Fleet. He acted bravely and skillfully during the storming of Grozny. During that war, he suffered his first heart attack.

From September 10, 1999, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus. Being the commander of the naval infantry forces in Chechnya, he was not only a military general, but also a diplomat, relying in his work on local commanders of the Chechen militia.

The brave North Sea general suddenly died of acute heart failure at the command post of the airborne assault battalion near the Chechen village of Vedeno on the night of March 6, 2000. He was buried on March 10, 2000 in the city of Severomorsk, Murmansk Region, on the Alley of Heroes.

At by order of the President of the Russian Federation of March 28, 2000 for the courage, courage and selflessness shown in the liquidation of illegal armed groups in the North Caucasus region, Major General Otrakovsky Alexander Ivanovich awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously.

Major General (1993). He was awarded the Order of Courage (1995), "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree (1987), medals.

May 9, 2001 to one of the big landing ships The Red Banner Northern Fleet was named "Alexander Otrakovsky". A memorial plaque was installed in the city of Severomorsk, Murmansk Region, on the house where the Hero lived.