page_title: Viktor Mardusin
section_title: Command rank and staff postings
hierarchical_section_title: Viktor Mardusin / Command rank and staff postings
caption_attribution_description: English: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Oct. 24, 2003) -- Members of the official greeting party and interpreters prepare for a press conference in front of Federation Navy Udaloy Class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov (DDG 543) after the ship arrived in Pearl Harbor for a five-day port visit. The Marshal Shaposhnikov was later joined by the Russian Dubna Class Light Oiler Pechenga (AOL) and both ships are in Pearl Harbor for a friendship visit, reciprocating a recent port call to Vladivostok, Russia made by San Diego-based guided missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82) and 7th fleet-based dock landing ship, USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43). The Russian Federation Navy last visited Pearl Harbor in 1995 while participating in the combined maritime disaster relief exercise, Cooperation From the Sea. U. S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class William R. Goodwin. (RELEASED)
context_page_description: Viktor Nikolayevich Mardusin is an officer of the Russian Navy. He currently holds the rank of vice-admiral, and has most recently served as deputy commander of the Western Military District.
  A native of Bryansk, Mardusin began his service in the Soviet Navy, after attending the P. S. Nakhimov Black Sea Higher Naval School. His early career was spent in the Baltic Fleet, where he served aboard several small missile ships, rising through the ranks and eventually taking command of one of the fleet's elderly destroyers, just prior to her decommissioning. After further studies at the navy's higher educational institutions, Mardusin served as commander of divisions and then brigades of small missile ships, before serving in staff officer positions as commander of a naval base, and as deputy and chief of staff of several of the navy's fleets. During his time as Deputy Commander of the Pacific Fleet, he visited the US naval base at Pearl Harbor and met with US naval officers.
  Mardusin then spent two years as commander of the Baltic Fleet, where he had begun his naval service decades earlier.
context_section_description: Mardusin's next posting, from May 2001 to August 2003, was as commander of the Baltic Naval Base, followed by his transfer in August 2003 to take up his new role as Deputy Commander of the Pacific Fleet. On 4 November 2003 Mardusin visited Pearl Harbor as part of a naval visit to the American base by the Udaloy-class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov and the Dubna-class tanker Pechenga. He met with US admirals Jonathan Greenert, Thomas B. Fargo and Barry McCullough during the visit, which marked the first time Russian ships had visited Pearl Harbor since 1995.
  Mardusin held the post of Deputy Commander of the Pacific Fleet until March 2005. On 9 March 2005 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Black Sea Fleet, before returning to the Pacific Fleet as its chief of staff from 6 May 2006 until 6 December 2007. On 6 December 2007 he was appointed commander of the Baltic Fleet. During his period in command, Somali pirates captured the Ukrainian cargo vessel MV Faina, with several Russian crewmen among the hostages. The Neustrashimyy-class frigate Neustrashimyy was dispatched from the Baltic Fleet to patrol off the Somali coast, with Mardusin stating that the frigate would be deployed "for more than two months in order to guarantee the safety of Russian ships." On the Neustrashimyy's return to base in February 2009, Mardusin welcomed her crew, and as per tradition, presented her commander, Captain 2nd Rank Alexei Apanovich, with a roasted piglet.
  Mardusin was commander of the Baltic Fleet until 8 September 2009. He had by that time, on 1 September 2009, been appointed Deputy Chief of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. On 4 October 2013 Mardusin was appointed deputy commander of the Western Military District, replacing Lieutenant General Oleg Makarevich, who was appointed Chief of Staff of the Eastern Military District.
caption: Mardusin, second from right, meeting with US Navy officers at Pearl Harbor. In the background is the Marshal Shaposhnikov.
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