Biographical description of the life of the Russian admiral Grigory Ivanovich Butakov (1820-1882). Grigory Ivanovich Butakov, Russian naval leader, naval commander, adjutant general, admiral, founder of the tactics of the steam armored fleet, researcher of the Black Sea. It was Butakov who in 1877 expressed the idea that Russia has neither an armored nor a cruising fleet, having many excellent, but single vessels, and proposed to build cruisers and battleships in series designed in accordance with the intended tasks of the fleets, and prepare personnel for them in advance. The funds for the grave monument to him were donated by the sailors of the Baltic Fleet. The bust from the monument was transferred to the Museum of Urban Sculpture of St. Petersburg, since its author was the famous sculptor M.A. Chizhov.