Nikolai Yevmenov

Nikolai Anatolyevich Yevmenov (Николай Анатольевич Евменов) (born 2 April 1962) is an officer of the Russian Navy. He holds the rank of admiral, and is the current commander in chief of the Navy.

Biography
Yevmenov was born on 2 April 1962 in Moscow. He studied at the Higher Naval School of Submarine Navigation between 1982 and 1987, after which he was appointed commander of the electronic navigation department of the navigation unit (BCh-1) of a nuclear submarine in the Pacific Fleet from 1987 to 1991.

Between 1995 and 1997 he studied at the N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy. Between 1997 and 1999 he commanded ballistic missile submarines in the Pacific Fleet. Between 1999 and 2006 he was chief of staff, deputy commander and subsequently commander of the 25th submarine division of the Pacific Fleet, having studied at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia during 2001 to 2003. In 2012 Yevmenov became deputy commander of the Northern Fleet, becoming commander in 2016 and being promoted to Admiral in 2017.

Yevmenov was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy on 3 May 2019 replacing Admiral Vladimir Korolyov.

Awards

 * Order of Alexander Nevsky (2016)
 * Order of Military Merit (Russia) (2006)
 * Order of Naval Merit (Russia) (2015)