Fyodor Vidyayev
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Fyodor Alekseyevich Vidyayev (Template:Langx, 1912-1943) was a Soviet Navy submarine commander during World War II. He was killed in action in 1943.
Vidayev was born in Samara Oblast, he was an ethnic Mordvin. He finished high school in Murmansk in 1930 and graduated with distinction from the M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School in 1937. He joined the Northern Fleet submarine division and started as a junior navigator on the submarine D-2. In 1938 he took part in the rescue of four researchers from a drifting ice station. He took part in the Soviet Finnish War of 1939–40 blockading Petsamo.
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- 1912 births
- 1943 deaths
- People from Samara Oblast
- Mordvin people
- Soviet submarine commanders
- Soviet military personnel killed in World War II
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
- People who died at sea
- Saint Petersburg Naval Institute alumni