Fleet Deputy Commander for Military and Political Work - Colonel
Unit: Black Sea Fleet
Actual Rank: Navy Captain (1st Rank)
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"During his last business trip to Mariupol, the officer was engaged in ensuring the evacuation of civilians, and died, according to preliminary data, on the night of March 19 from a sniper's bullet."
Paliy has since been nominated for posthumous promotion to Rear Admiral, though no decision has yet been reached on the matter.
Paliy has since been nominated for posthumous promotion to Rear Admiral, though no decision has yet been reached on the matter.
Cargo ID: #330
Full Name: Andrei Nikolayevich Paliy
Russian Name: Палий Андре́й Никола́евич
Date of Birth: February 13, 1971 (age: 51)
Place of Birth: Kyiv, Ukraine
Place of Death: Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Previous Deployments: Georgia, Syria, Ukraine (2014)
Education: Kyiv Higher Naval Political School (graduated 1992 with the degree "social psychologist and pedagogue")
A battle boat will be named after the deceased Black Sea Fleet deputy commander Andrey Palya.
The ceremony will take place on Navy Day on July 31.
The name of Captain First Rank, Deputy Commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Andrey Palya, who died during the liberation of Mariupol from Ukrainian nationalists, will be given to the patrol boat P-415 of the Raptor project.
"Today in Sevastopol, at the Grafskaya pier, a ceremony was held to assign the name "Andrey Paliy" to the patrol boat P-415."
Born into a family of hereditary military men. He studied at secondary school No. 10 in Severomorsk, Murmansk region. In 1992 he graduated from the Kiev Higher Naval Political School, specializing in social psychology. After graduation with the rank of lieutenant, he was appointed deputy for educational work of the commander of the 4th company of the 2nd regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine in Kyiv, but in March 1993, due to his refusal to take the Ukrainian military oath, he left for the Northern Fleet.
He served in the Northern Fleet on the destroyer Besstrashny as a psychologist, later as deputy commander of the RTBCh for educational work. Participated in the formation of the crew, acceptance of the ship from industry, sea and state trials, crossing the inter-fleet transition in August 1994 from the Baltic to the Northern Fleet. Then he sailed on the rescue ship “Georgiy Titov”. Subsequently, he sailed on the heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser "Peter the Great". He was appointed deputy commander at the Belomorsk naval base. In 1999, he was a psychologist at the Kerch BOD and subsequently deputy commander of the Pytlivy ICR.
In August 2004, Andrei Nikolaevich returned to his unit of the Black Sea Fleet as deputy commander of the RSBC for educational work of the BKK "Ochakov" 1134B, in May 2005 he was appointed deputy commander of the 11th UPLK of the 30th DNA of the Black Sea Fleet for educational work. Since the fall of 2004, he has repeatedly served as deputy commander of a campaign to work with personnel of detachments of ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, including during the operational-strategic exercises “West-2009”, “Vostok-2010”, Russian-Italian naval exercises "IONEX-2011". In August-September 2008 he took part in the war in Georgia. In April-July 2010, he headed the moral and psychological support for the inter-fleet transition of the Project 1164 cruiser "Moscow" from the Black Sea to the Pacific Fleet through the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Since 2011 - Head of the Department for Work with Personnel of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation.
He took part in the creation of the museum of the 4th coastal battery in Sevastopol.
At the end of 2020, he was deputy commander of the Russian Armed Forces in Syria.
Participant of long sea voyages.
On the night of April 13-14, 2022, exactly 2 years ago, the tragedy of the Black Sea Fleet cruiser "Moscow" occurred. As a result of a fire and an explosion of ammunition, it was seriously damaged and sank during the rescue operation.
27 sailors were missing and are now considered dead; one person died in a fire, his body was carried from the ship. The reasons have not been officially stated. There are only version that this was the result of an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The cruiser, being in the area of Odessa and Zmeiny Island, interfered with the enemy in this strategic area. We will not know the true reasons for the death of the cruiser soon. (Spoiler Neptune)
In the photo, Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet A.N. Paliy died in March 2022, Military greeting to the cruiser "Moscow".
This is their last joint photo at the end of December 2021.
"According to one version, Andrie Paliy died from a sniper's bullet, according to another, from a shrapnel wound. Both versions have not yet been officially confirmed and verified. It is known that the Black Sea Fleet was preparing documents for awarding Andrei Paliy the rank of rear admiral before his death."
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