Oskar Stark
| Oskar Viktorovich Stark | |
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Oskar Viktorovich Stark
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| Nickname(s) | (Russian: Оскар Викторович Старк |
| Born | 16 August 1846 |
| Died | 13 November 1928 (aged 82) Helsinki, Finland |
| Allegiance |
 Russian Empire
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| Service/branch |
 Imperial Russian Navy
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| Rank | Admiral |
| Battles/wars |
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War |
| Awards |
 Order of St Vladimir, 2nd degree |
Oskar Viktorovich Stark (Russian: Оскар Викторович Старк, 16 August 1846 – 13 November 1928) was a vice-admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and a noted explorer of Peter the Great Bay and the Far Eastern seas. A strait in Peter the Great Gulf and a bay in the Tatar Strait are named after him.
Stark graduated from the Sea Cadet Corps in 1864. In his early career, he participated on numerous expeditions as commander of the frigate Vostok from 1874-1877 to chart the Arctic and Pacific coasts of Siberia. He subsequently captained a gunboat in the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) and later the gunboats Sivuch and Pervenets. He was captain of the cruiser Vladimir Monomakh from 1891-1892. From 11 April 1898 to 7 October 1902 Stark served in the Russian Pacific Fleet. On 6 December 1902, he was promoted to vice admiral. By appointment from Viceroy of the Far East Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Stark was commander of the Russian naval base at Port Arthur from 1 May 1898 to 7 October 1902. On 7 February 1902 he concurrently held the position of Commander of the Russian Pacific Fleet.
At the start of the Russian-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a pre-emptive strike on the Russian fleet anchored at Port Arthur. At the time of the attack, Stark was holding a birthday party for his wife on the deck of his flagship, the battleship Petropavlovsk, and the crowd attending the party mistakenly thought the exploding Japanese ordnance was fired in honour of the birthday party.
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