{{Short description|Russian admiral (1926–1999)}} {{Infobox military person |name = Timur Gaidar |native_name = Тимур Гайдар |native_name_lang = ru |birth_date={{Birth date|1926|12|8}} |death_date= {{Death date and age|1999|12|23|1926|12|8}} |birth_place= Arkhangelsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |death_place= Moscow, Russia |relations = Arkady Gaidar (father),<br>Yegor Gaidar (son) |image=GaidarTA.jpg |caption= |nickname= |allegiance = {{USSR}} |branch = {{navy|Soviet Union}} |service_years=1948–? |rank=Rear Admiral |commands= |battles=Cold War |awards= |other_work=journalist, Military correspondent of Pravda }} '''Timur Arkadyevich Gaidar''' ({{langx|ru|Тиму́р Арка́дьевич Гайда́р}}; December 8, 1926 – December 23, 1999) was a Soviet/Russian rear admiral, writer and journalist. He was supposed to be the inspiration for Timur from Arkady Gaidar's book ''Timur and His Squad'' that was the inspiration for the Timurite movement.

==Early life and career== Gaidar was born in Arkhangelsk, the son of well-known children's writer Arkady Gaidar and screenwriter {{ill|Lia Solomyanskaya|ru|Соломянская, Лия Лазаревна}}. He graduated from the Leningrad Naval School<ref>Later the Higher Naval School of Submarine Navigation, incorporated in the Saint Petersburg Naval Institute in 1998.</ref> in 1948 and the faculty of journalism of the Lenin Military-Political Academy in 1954, and served on submarines of the Baltic Fleet and the Pacific Ocean Fleet. Beginning in 1957 he worked for newspapers, including ''The Soviet Fleet'', the ''Red Star'', and ''Pravda''.<ref>[http://www.arhangelskobl.ru/peoples/533 Gaidar Timur Arkadyevich], ''Famous people of Arkhangelsk Oblast''</ref> He fought in the Bay of Pigs Invasion and was a friend of Cuban General Raúl Castro.{{efn|According to Andrey Illarionov, Timor Aikadievich Gaidar ({{langx|ru|Тимур Аркадьевич Гайдар}}) was a high ranking GRU agent posing as a ''Pravda'' reporter while he was in Cuba, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan during the Soviet War in Afghanistan, as well as Syria, Indonesia, the Persian Gulf, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. At his home in Cuba, the younger Gaidar was six when he claimed he saw his father meet with Major General I. D. Statsenko ({{langx|ru|И. Д. Стаценко}}), who was the commander of the 53rd (41st) missile division, Rear Admiral A. M. Tikhonov ({{langx|ru|А. М. Тихонов}}), who was the head of counterintelligence of the Group of Soviet Forces in Cuba (GSVK) ({{langx|ru|Группы советских войск на Кубе (ГСВК)}}), and Raul Castro, who was the Minister of War for the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, while 15 ships of the United States 7th fleet could be seen from his window although the 7th Fleet would have been in the Pacific Ocean during the Cuban Missile Crisis which the Soviets called ''operation Anadyr'' ({{langx|ru|операции Анадырь}}).<ref>{{cite web |last=Илларионов |first=Андрей (Illarionov, Andrey) |url=https://magazines.russ.ru/continent/2010/146/il7.html |title=«Трудный путь к свободе» Часть вторая |trans-title=Hard road to freedom: Part two |language=ru |work=«Континент» Литературный, публицистический и религиозный журнал (continent.russ.ru) №146 2010, № 4 октябрь — декабрь |date=4 May 2011 |access-date=26 March 2022 |archive-date=10 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110070748/https://magazines.russ.ru/continent/2010/146/il7.html |quote=See 20. Наш человек в Гаване (20. Our Man in Cuba).}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Илларионов |first=Андрей (Illarionov, Andrey) |url=https://vtoraya-literatura.com/pdf/kontinent_146_2010__ocr.pdf |title=«Трудный путь к свободе» Часть вторая |trans-title=Hard road to freedom: Part two |language=ru |work=«Континент» Литературный, публицистический и религиозный журнал (continent.russ.ru) №146 2010, № 4 октябрь — декабрь |pages=164–170 |date=4 May 2011 |access-date=26 March 2022 |archive-date=25 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325233002/https://vtoraya-literatura.com/pdf/kontinent_146_2010__ocr.pdf}}</ref>}} In 1965–1971 Timur Gaidar was working in Belgrade, SFRY.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2286615|title=Посол Ее Величества сэр Эндрю М. Вуд // Тимур Гайдар: от Тито до Милошевича|lang=ru|trans-title=Her Majesty's Ambassador Sir Andrew M. Wood // Timur Gaidar: From Tito to Milošević|publisher=Ogoniok|date=1999-05-30}}</ref>

Gaidar died in Moscow. His widow is Ariadna Bazhova (born 1925), daughter of the Russian writer Pavel Bazhov. Yegor Gaidar, a Russian politician, was their son.<ref>{{cite web |last=Антон |first=Васецкий (Anton, Vasetsky) |url=https://www.trud.ru/article/24-12-2009/234359_gajdar-ded_gajdar-otets_gajdar-syn.html |title=Гайдар-дед, Гайдар-отец, Гайдар-сын |lang=ru |trans-title=Gaidar-grandfather, Gaidar-father, Gaidar-son |website=Trud |date=2009-12-24 |access-date=26 March 2022 |archive-date=27 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027100831/https://www.trud.ru/article/24-12-2009/234359_gajdar-ded_gajdar-otets_gajdar-syn.html}}</ref>

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