Igor Vladimirovich Osipov (born 6 March 1973) was a Russian Navy admiral who served as commander-in-chief of the Black Sea Fleet from May 2019 to August 2022, succeeding Aleksandr A. Moiseyev and preceding Viktor Nikolayevich Sokolov.
Biography[]
Igor Vladimirovich Osipov was born in Novoshumnoye, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union in 1973, and he joined the Soviet Navy in 1990 and became an officer in the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet in 1995. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 2004 and held a brigade command from 2007 to 2011; the next year, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff. Osipov went on to command the Russian naval base at Baltiysk in Kaliningrad Oblast from 2012 to 2015, served as chief of staff and first deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet from 2016 to 2018, was promoted to Vice-Admiral in 2018, and served as commander of the Black Sea Fleet from 2019, being promoted to Admiral in 2021. On 16 April 2022, Osipov was reportedly detained by the FSB after the Russian Navy's morale-crushing loss of the cruiser Moskva, which may have been carrying nuclear missiles at the time that it sank off Sevastopol. He was replaced as commander of the fleet in 2022.