High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov (Russian: Николай Герасимович Кузнецов) (July 24, 1904, Medvedki – December 6, 1974, Moscow) was a Soviet naval officer who achieved the rank of Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union and served as People`s Commissar of the Navy during The Second World War.