MOSCOW. Sept 13 (Interfax-AVN) - Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky has been appointed Russia's Navy commander after the retirement of previous commander Fleet Adm. Vladimir Masorin, a security agencies source told Interfax on Thursday.
"Masorin turned 60 on August 24, the age limit for a military commander. Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky, previously commander of the Northern Fleet, has been appointed new Navy commander," the source said.
Masorin was appointed Russian Navy commander in September 2005.
Vysotsky was born in the Lviv region of Ukraine in 1954. He graduated from the Black Sea Naval College in 1976 and the Higher Special Naval Officer Classes in 1982, after which he served on various commanding positions on the Pacific Fleet. After graduating from the Kuznetsov Naval Academy in 1990, Vysotsky was appointed commander of a heavy aircraft carrier in the Pacific Fleet and a deputy commander and later commander of a division of rocket-carrying vessels.
In 1999, Vysotsky graduated from the Russian General Staff Military Academy and was appointed chief of staff of the Northern Fleet and a first deputy commander of the Kola flotilla of multiple-type fleet forces. He was later appointed commander of this flotilla. In August 2004, Vice Adm. Vysotsky was appointed chief of staff and a first deputy commander of the Baltic Fleet. A year later, he was appointed commander of the Northern Fleet.