Vice-Admiral Ibrahim bey Allahverdi bey oglu Aslanbekov /Асланбегов Аврамий Богданович; 1822, Baku - 1900, Saint Petersburg/ with his very early 2nd class Rising Sun order that he received in 1882.
He was also awarded:
Gold Badge for graduating from the Naval Corps
Award Gold Medal “For Achievements in Science”
Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd class
Order of St. Anna, 3rd class
Order of St. Anna, 2nd class with swords (1855)
Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class with swords (1856)
Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class with bow “for 25 years of service in officer ranks” (1857)
Imperial Crown to the Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class with swords (1859)
Imperial Crown to the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class with swords (1859)
Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class (1874)
Order of St. Stanislaus, 1st class (1881)
In 1881, at the coronation ceremony of Emperor Alexander III, I. Aslanbekov was awarded a sabre and a one-time cash prize in the amount of an annual salary
Order of St. Anna, 1st class (1883)
Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class (1885)
Order of the White Eagle (1888)
Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1898)
Serbian Order of Cross of Takovo (1879)
Hawaiian Royal Order of Kalakaua I, 2nd class (Knight Grand Officer) (1882)
Silver medal on the St. George ribbon to be worn in the buttonhole "For the Defense of Sevastopol" (1855)
Bronze medal “In memory of the Eastern (Crimean) War of 1853–1856” (1856)
Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 Red Cross Badge
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Cross "For Service In The Caucasus" 1864
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Ibrahim bey Aslanbekov was born on September 20 (October 2), 1822 in Baku.
At the age of 13 (September 5, 1835), with the knowledge and at the request of Baku Khan Mirza Magomed Khan I, he was sent to St. Petersburg to study at the Naval Cadet Corps (NCC).
January 7, 1837 - Graduated from the Naval Corps as a midshipman, first on the list, and was listed in the Golden Book.
1837-1838 - Spent internship navigation voyages in the Baltic Sea on the frigates Proserpina and Alexander Nevsky.
1838, December 21 – After successfully passing the final exams, according to the list of graduates of the ICC: “Promoted to midshipman of the fleet, Aslanbegov Abram Bogdanovich.”
1839-1842 – Assigned to the hydrographic department of the Officers’ Class, which was established on January 29, 1827 at the ICC for “improving a certain number of the most excellent of the newly promoted officers in the higher parts of the sciences required for naval service.” Graduated from the Officers’ Class with honors.
1842, October 28 – Promoted to lieutenant and sent to the Black Sea.
1843-1853 – Voyages on ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the Black, Mediterranean Seas, and the Greek archipelago. Participated in landings off the Abkhazian coast and battles with the highlanders.
1853-1856 – Participated in the Crimean (Eastern) War.
1853, September 4 - Appointed commander of the tender "Pospeshny".
1854 - with the rank of lieutenant, in command of the steamship "Elborus", Aslanbekov went on four cruises to Constantinople (June 30, July 7, August 3 and 6) to destroy enemy commercial vessels and safely returned to Sevastopol.
A few days later, Aslanbekov, captain of the steamship "Elborus", again set off on a long-distance cruising, participated in the transportation of troops, night observation of the sea, in naval battles, demonstrating courage and heroism.
1854, August - Commanded a mobile artillery battery and artillery fire on enemy batteries. On August 27, while repelling another assault, he was shell-shocked.
“On the morning of September 20,” the commander of the steamship Elborus wrote in his diary, “an enemy column appeared on the heights and several riflemen went down and started dealing with the outposts located on the right bank of the Black River; they informed me, I ordered a bomb to be launched, then another, and I went to the Inkerman pier to see how the bombs were falling, and ordered them to continue. It was pleasant to learn from the officers from the Vladimir that our four bombs were so successful that they forced the enemy columns to leave their positions and run away behind the mountains.”
1854, December 6 - For military service he was promoted to captain-lieutenant “for distinction.”
1855, August 31 – Sinking of the steam frigate Elborus. After the ship was sunk in Sevastopol Bay, he took command of a land defense sector and a mobile artillery battery of landing naval guns.
1855, September 1 – Appointed commander of the 42nd naval crew (FE) of the Black Sea Fleet and head of the 1st defensive line on the northern side of Sevastopol.
1855-1858 – After the Eastern War, he was at the port of Nikolaev, where he commanded the 36th FE of the Black Sea Fleet (since 01.05.1857)
1858, March 12 – Appointed first commander of the 1st sail-and-screw corvette Sokol under construction, while retaining the post of commander of the FE.
1860-1864 – Served on the Sokol, which was launched on August 30, 1859 and commissioned in 1860. Served at the disposal of the Russian envoy to Constantinople, and in early 1861 was sent to join Admiral Shestakov’s squadron off the coast of Syria. On
June 8, 1861, he was transferred to the Baltic Fleet and on June 23, 1861, together with the frigate Ilya Muromets, he made the transition from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. He arrived in Kronstadt at the end of September 1861 and was part of the Baltic Fleet until September 17, 1863.
1862, January 1 – Promoted to captain of the 2nd rank “for distinction”.
1863, September 17 - Arrived in Nikolaev, having made the transition on the Sokol from Kronstadt back to the Black Sea, and returned to the Black Sea Flotilla.
1864, January 7 - Transferred to the Baltic Fleet and appointed commander of the battleship Retvizan.
1864-1868 - During voyages on the Retvizan in the Baltic Sea.
1866, January 1 - Promoted to captain of the 1st rank.
1868 - Enlisted in the staff of the commander of the first Practical Squadron of the armored fleet, Vice-Admiral G.I. Butakov, while remaining in his previous position - Commander of the steam frigate Solombala. The ship was enlisted in the squadron as an admiral's ship and for dispatch service on voyages in the Gulf of Finland.
1869-1872 - Repeatedly appointed to committees assembled to clarify national needs on various issues - Member of the Commission for the Establishment of Navigation Schools, Development of Merchant Shipping and Shipbuilding in Courland; Member of the Committee for Determining the Prospects for the Development of the Military and Commercial Ports in Sevastopol (“… to find adaptations and improvements required by the extension of the railway to Sevastopol, and the necessary division of the port into military and commercial…”).
1871, March 28 - Appointed commander of the 3rd Fleet of the Baltic Fleet.
1872 - During the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Peter I, he was entrusted with accompanying the “grandfather of the Russian fleet”, Peter’s boat, to Moscow for the First All-Russian Polytechnic Exhibition, and on May 30, 1872, he took part in the ceremonial ceremony of its voyage along the Moscow River.
1876 – Appointed commander of the 8th FE BF.
1878, January 1 - Promoted to Rear Admiral while retaining his previous position as commander of the 8th Federative Squadron.
1879, August - Appointed head of the Pacific Ocean squadron, consisting of the first iron-hulled armored cruisers Minin, Knyaz Pozharsky, Gertsog Edinburgsky, Asia, Africa, and steam-sail clippers. With these ships, he sailed around the world from the Baltic Sea to the Far East.
1879-1882 - Service in the Far East: 1880 - head of a detachment of cruisers on a foreign voyage; 1881-1882 - Chief of Naval Forces in the Pacific Ocean.
1881, spring - Cruised through the ports of Southeast Asia. On the cruiser "Africa," he toured Russian ports in the Far East. After visiting the Petropavlovsk port, Rear Admiral Aslanbekov, commander of the Pacific Ocean detachments, wrote: "After disembarking, I visited all three Russian churches located here. One of them, an old one built on the site of an even older one, contains two historical icons: one of the Apostle Peter, who sailed with the famous Captain Bering, which his officers mounted in a silver frame, and the other, dedicated to the Apostles Peter and Paul, made with donations from those who participated in the Battle of Petropavlovsk, in memory of that glorious day. Near the new church stands a cast-iron cross in honor of Bering, who is buried on the island named after him."
1881-1882 - Leading a squadron (the cruiser Africa, the clippers Plastun and Vestnik) on a voyage to Australia (N.N. Miklukha-Maclay returned on the clipper Vestnik on the return voyage), visited the Aleutian Islands, Vancouver, San Francisco, Honolulu, the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, and 5 Australian ports.
1882, May - The clipper Plastun conducted a cartographic survey of Sakhalin Island.
The strait in the Sea of Okhotsk and the peninsula on Sakhalin, discovered and described by the expedition of the clipper Plastun, are named after Aslanbekov.
“Aslanbekov, Pr., Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin Island” is a narrow strait connecting Nabil Bay with the sea. Nabil Lagoon is connected to the sea by the Aslanbekov Strait.
Named in 1882 during hydrographic work in the Nabil Strait by the commander of the clipper Plastun Polyansky in honor of the commander of a detachment of warships in the Pacific Ocean, Rear Admiral Avraamy Bogdanovich Aslanbekov.
1882, June 11 - Arrived in Nagasaki, where on July 27 he handed over the detachment to Rear Admiral N.V. Kopytov, and returned to Russia with an appointment to the Baltic Fleet.
1883 - Commander of the squadron at the Kronstadt roadstead during the Imperial review.
1884, April 8 - Appointed junior flagship of the Baltic Fleet.
1885 - Enlisted in the fleet.
1887, September 22 - Promoted to Vice Admiral.
1884-1898 - Acted as junior flagship of the Baltic Fleet.
1888 - Elected a Full Member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society.
1898 - Retired.
On December 7, 1900, Vice-Admiral Aslanbekov Ibrahim bey Allahverdi bey oglu died in St. Petersburg. He was buried in Moscow at the Pyatnitskoye Cemetery.