Mikhail Alexandrovich Kedrov
| Mikhail Alexandrovich Kedrov | |
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Mikhail Kedrov
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| Born | 13 September 1878 |
| Died | 29 October 1945 (aged 67) Paris |
| Allegiance |
 Russian EmpireTemplate:Country data RussianWhite Movement |
| Service/branch |
 Imperial Russian Navy
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| Years of service | 1899-1920 |
| Rank | Vice Admiral |
| Commands held |
Black Sea Fleet Wrangel's fleet |
| Battles/wars |
Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War |
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kedrov (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Ке́дров)(1878–1945, France) was a Russian naval officer.
Kedrov graduated from the Sea Cadet Corps in 1899 at the top of his class and served as a midshipman on the cruiser Gertzog Edinburgsky.
During the Russo-Japanese war he served as a pesrsonal flag officer to admiral Stepan Makarov. He was not on the battleship Petropavlovsk when that ship was sunk (with the loss of the admiral and his staff) as he was detached to the destroyer Boyevoy at the time. Subsequently Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft appointed Kedrov as his flag captain. Kedrov was wounded aboard the battleship Tsesarevich during the battle of the Yellow Sea. After recovering in hospital in Tsingtao he made his way to Cam Ranh Bay in French Vietnam joining up with the Second Pacific squadron. He fought at the battle of Tsushima aboard the cruiser Ural surviving her sinking.
Kedrov completed the Mikhailov Artillery Academy in 1907 and was promoted to Captain Lieutenant and served aboard the training ship Petr Velikiy as a gunnery instructor eventually becoming her commander in 1913 and deputy chief gunnery officer of the Baltic Fleet.
In 1914 kedrov was the flag captain of the 2nd battleship squadron of the Baltic Fleet. In 1914 he was tasked with bringing the codebooks salvaged from the German cruiser SMS Magdeburg to Britain and was attached to the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet until 1915 serving aboard the cruiser HMS Theseus and the battleships HMS Conqueror and HMS Emperor of India
In November 1915 Kedrov was appointed to command the Russian battleship Gangut. In February 1916 he was summoned to Russian general headquarters to explain directly to the tsar, Nicholas II, the causes of disturbances in the Russian fleet. Kedrov then was made commander of the destroyer division of the Baltic Fleet, and later was then promoted to Rear admiral in the Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy in the autumn of 1916.
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