{{For|people with the same last name|Senyavin (disambiguation)}} {{Short description|First Russian Vice Admiral (1680-1738)}} thumb | right | alt=Battle of oesel. | Battle of oesel. '''Naum Akimovich Senyavin''' or '''Sinyavin''' ({{langx|ru|Наум Акимович Сенявин}}; {{circa}} 1680 – {{OldStyleDate|June 4|1738|May 24}}) was Vice Admiral (1727) of the Imperial Russian Navy.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/node/436966 |title=Letters and edicts of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor Peter the Great, written to Naum Akimovich Sinyavin, who continued his service in the Russian Navy Fleet, from the beginning of the mogul from the rank of matrozskiy to the rank of admiral, kept by th |language=en |access-date=2024-02-17 |archive-date=2022-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816233011/https://www.prlib.ru/en/node/436966 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was Russia's first Vice Admiral. He was the father of Alexey Naumovich Senyavin.
== Biography == In 1698, Naum Senyavin began his military career as a soldier of the Preobrazhensky regiment. He became a sailor under the Captain Peter Mikhailov and was then was promoted to the rank of non-commissioned officer. Naum Senyavin first distinguished himself during the Great Northern War.
In 1713, he was appointed commander of a battleship. In 1716, when António de Vieira was in the Danish capital, he witnessed the poor treatment given by Naum Senyavin to his sailors and informed the Russian court of what had happened.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Milhazes |first=José |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fLIICAAAQBAJ&dq=Naum+Senyavin&pg=PP20 |title=O Favorito Português de Pedro O Grande |date=2022-02-21 |publisher=Leya |isbn=978-972-20-5692-2 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
In 1719, as a squadron commander, Senyavin fought Swedish forces during the Battle of Ösel and captured three ships.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grant |first=R. G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZNADwAAQBAJ&dq=Naum+Senyavin&pg=PA408 |title=1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History |date=2017-10-24 |publisher=Book Sales |isbn=978-0-7858-3553-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Showalter |first=Professor Dennis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k_GxAgAAQBAJ&dq=Naum+Senyavin&pg=RA1-PA1700 |title=Early Modern Wars 1500–1775 |date=2013-09-16 |publisher=Amber Books Ltd |isbn=978-1-78274-121-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Savoretti |first=Angelo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0rLEAAAQBAJ&dq=Naum+Senyavin&pg=PT275 |title=Le grandi guerre sui mari giorno per giorno |date=2023-09-01 |publisher=Newton Compton Editori |isbn=978-88-227-6192-7 |language=it}}</ref> In 1721, he became a member of the Admiralty Board (Адмиралтейств-коллегия). In 1728–1732, Senyavin commanded a galley fleet. In September 1737, he was appointed commander of the Dnieper Flotilla during the Russo-Turkish War of 1735-1739. He build the shipyard below the Dniper rapids near Khortytsya island.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zaporizhzhya Sights {{!}} Khortytsia Museum of Dniper Flotilla |url=https://ukraine-kiev-tour.com/ukraine_zaporizhzhya_sights_khortytsia_museum_dniper_flotilla.html |access-date=2024-02-17 |website=ukraine-kiev-tour.com |archive-date=2022-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929143823/https://ukraine-kiev-tour.com/ukraine_zaporizhzhya_sights_khortytsia_museum_dniper_flotilla.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
Peter the Great gave some lands close to Saint Petersburg to Senyavin, and the estate became known as the selo of Sinyavino. Currently it is an urban-type settlement in Kirovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lo-sinyavino.ru/mo/oi|script-title=ru:Историческая справка и особенности муниципального образования|publisher=Синявинское городское поселение|language=Russian|accessdate=19 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215210756/http://www.lo-sinyavino.ru/mo/oi|archive-date=15 December 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 1738, an epidemic of plague broke out and Senyavin died of this disease at the end of May 1738.
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