Ivan Golubets

Ivan Karpovich Golubets (1916-1942) was a Soviet sailor with the Black Sea Fleet. He was posthumously made a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Ivan Golubets was born in the city of Taganrog on May 8, 1916 in the family of a Ukrainian worker. He worked at the iron and steel factory after 7 years in a Taganrog's high school.

In 1937, Ivan Golubets enrolled into the Soviet Navy. In 1939, he graduated from the Coast-guard school in Balaklava, and served at the 2nd and in the 1st divisions of the Black Sea Fleet's coast-guard ships in the city of Novorossiysk. He participated in the World War II since June, 1941, serving as steersman on the corvette ("сторожевой корабль") "SK-0183" (3rd division of guard-ships), making the brave feat in the spring of 1942 in Sevastopol.

On March 25, 1942 German artillery fired at the Streletskaya Bay, the engine department of another guard ship, "SK-0121", was hit and burst into flames. Ivan Golubets took necessary measures for extinguishing the fire. After the second shell hit the Soviet ship, there was an explosion of the fuel tanks, which could lead to the explosion of anti-submarine bombs on board, threatening a chain explosion on other ships in the Bay. Golubets understood the situation and started rolling the anti-submarine depth bombs off the ship, until the last bomb exploded, but many other ships and people's lives were saved.

On June 14, 1942 Presidium of the Supreme Soviet issued a decree posthumously naming Ivan Golubets the Hero of the Soviet Union.