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Alexander Marinesko

1913 - 1963

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Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko (Russian: Александр Иванович Маринеско, Ukrainian: Олександр Іванович Марiнеско, Romanian: Alexandru Marinescu; 15 January [O.S. 2 January] 1913 – 25 November 1963) was a Soviet career naval officer. During the last year of World War II, he became known as the captain of the submarine S-13, which sank the German military transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea in January 1945. Passengers included civilians and women and children being evacuated from East Prussia, in addition to military and related personnel. More than 9,300 of the more than 10,000 passengers and crew died. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Marinesko is the 711th most popular military personnel (up from 756th in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 254th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alexander Marinesko ranks 711 out of 2,058. Before him are Husband E. Kimmel, Sergey Akhromeyev, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Vitalian, Zhuge Jin, and Mario Terán. After him are August Hirt, Jules Brunet, Sigismund Korybut, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Wilhelm Schepmann, and Billy Mitchell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Alexander Marinesko ranks 94. Before him are Alexander Pokryshkin, Bill Shankly, Victor Mature, Mark Felt, Loretta Young, and Pinetop Perkins. After him are Pierre Werner, Marika Rökk, Maurice Wilkes, Eddie Constantine, Tokutaro Ukon, and Johannes Steinhoff. Among people deceased in 1963, Alexander Marinesko ranks 50. Before him are Mohammad Ali Bogra, Sivananda Saraswati, Remedios Varo, Rikidōzan, Alois Hudal, and Hubert Pierlot. After him are Eduard Spranger, Karl von Terzaghi, William Beveridge, Camille Chautemps, Sarit Thanarat, and Otto Struve.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Marinesko ranks 238 out of 1,365. Before him are Vladimir Korolenko (1853), Mikhail Eisenstein (1867), Denys Shmyhal (1975), Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Michael Rostovtzeff (1870), and Paul Muni (1895). After him are Lyudmila Rudenko (1904), Sigismund Korybut (1395), Lina Kostenko (1930), Angelica Balabanoff (1878), Leonid Pasternak (1862), and Sergei Winogradsky (1856).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Alexander Marinesko ranks 21. Before him are Kirill Moskalenko (1902), Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836), Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906), Pavel Batitsky (1910), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), and Ivan Bohun (1618). After him are Sigismund Korybut (1395), Andriy Melnyk (1890), Grigory Kulik (1890), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Sergey Gorshkov (1910), and Valerii Zaluzhnyi (1973).

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