Biographie
The town of Shiritoru, in Sakhalin island, was renamed as Makarov in 1946.
Service militaire
He joined the Imperial Russian Navy in 1863 and served as a Cadet aboard a clipper of the Pacific Fleet and in 1866 took part in the voyage of the corvette Askold from Vladivostok to Kronstadt via the Cape of Good Hope. Makarov served with the Baltic Fleet between 1867 and 1876 serving as flag captain to Admiral Andrei Popov. Makarov transferred to the Black Sea Fleet in 1876.
He was appointed as a Captain (IRN).
He was appointed as a Admiral (IRN). Makarov was highly decorated for his service as a captain of the Russian torpedo boat tender Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.
He was one of the first adopters of the idea of torpedo boats and he himself went to action in torpedo boats. On January 16, 1877 he was first in the world to launch torpedoes from a boat (which itself was launched from a tender) against a Turkish armed ship the Intibah. Makarov directed two round-the-world oceanographic expeditions on the corvette Vityaz (1886-1889 and 1894-1896).Makarov proposed the idea, oversaw the construction the world's first icebreaker "Yermak" and commanded her in two arctic expeditions in 1899 and 1901. Promoted to Commander of the Russian Pacific Fleet, Admiral Makarov was killed in action during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 on the battleship Petropavlovsk after his ship struck a mine.
Références
Dunmore, John (1991)
