Allegiance Soviet Union Awards Service/branch Soviet Navy | Unit Patrol boat СК-0183 Role Sailor Years of service 1939-1942 Name Ivan Golubets | |
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Rank Старший матрос (senior sailor) Died March 25, 1942, Sevastopol, Ukraine Similar People Erich von Manstein, Filipp Oktyabrsky, Gheorghe Avramescu, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, Francesco Mimbelli | ||
Battles/wars Battle for Sevastopol Battles and wars Siege of Sevastopol | ||
Ivan Karpovich Golubets (Russian: Ива́н Ка́рпович Голубе́ц; 8 May 1916 – 25 March 1942) was a Soviet sailor with the Black Sea Fleet. He was posthumously made a Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Biography
Ivan Golubets was born in the city of Taganrog on 8 May 1916 into the family of a Ukrainian worker. He worked at the iron and steel factory after 7 years in Taganrog's high school No. 2.
In 1937, Ivan Golubets enrolled into the Soviet Navy. In 1939, he graduated from the Coast-guard school in Balaklava, and served at the 2nd and in the 1st divisions of the Black Sea Fleet's coast-guard ships in the city of Novorossiysk. He participated in World War II beginning in June 1941, serving as steersman on the corvette (сторожевой корабль) SK-0183 (3rd division of guard-ships), making the brave feat in the spring of 1942 in Sevastopol.
On 25 March 1942 German artillery fired at the Streletskaya Bay, the engine department of another guard ship, SK-0121, was hit and burst into flames. Ivan Golubets took necessary measures for extinguishing the fire. After the second shell hit the Soviet ship, there was an explosion of the fuel tanks, which could lead to the explosion of anti-submarine bombs on board, threatening a chain explosion on other ships in the Bay. Golubets understood the situation and started rolling the anti-submarine depth bombs off the ship, until the last bomb exploded, but many other ships and people's lives were saved.
On 14 June 1942, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet issued a decree posthumously naming Ivan Golubets the Hero of the Soviet Union.