761.13/2–2650: Telegram
The Chargé in the Soviet Union ( Barbour ) to the Secretary of State
Moscow
, February 26,
1950.
676. Soviet Press February 26 carries decree Supreme Soviet USSR ordering separation naval forces from Ministry Armed Forces and formation All-Union Naval Ministry USSR. Ministry Armed Forces renamed War Ministry. Admiral I. S. Yumashev named Naval Minister.1
Barbour
- Admiral Ivan Stepanovich Yumashev was the Commander in Chief of the Naval Forces of the Soviet Union, 1947–1951.↩