Alexey Schastny

Alexey Mikhailovich Schastny was a Russian and Soviet naval commander. he commanded the Baltic Fleet during the ice cruise.

Schastny was born into a military family in Zhitomir, Ukraine. His father Mihail Mikhaylovich Schastny, was a major general of artillery in the Imperial Russian Army. Schastny was educated in the Vladimir Kiev cadet Corps 18921896. He graduated second in his class from the Sea Cadet Corps in 1901 and completed the mine warfare officers class in 1905.

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