Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haife shi a cikin dangin Cossack ataman, Panteleyev da mahaifinsa dukansu masu sha'awar jirgin ruwa ne, suna zaune a Saint Petersburg. Tare da Juyin Juya Halin Rasha a cikin 1917 Panteleyev ya ba da kai tare da ƙungiyar ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa na Red Navy na Ma'aikata da Manoma, kuma ba da daɗewa ba aka ba shi umarnin kansa. Ya shiga cikin kare Petrograd a lokacin yakin basasa na Rasha, da kuma murkushe tawayen Kronstadt a 1921. Yin ƙarin karatu da kwasa-kwasan jiragen ruwa, Panteleyev ya ƙware a cikin kewayawa kuma ya yi aiki a kan wasu jiragen ruwa na Black Sea Fleet, sannan a matsayin jami'in ma'aikaci na Arewacin Soja. Bayan umarnin brigades na jirgin ruwa a cikin Bahar Maliya, an nada Panteleyev shugaban ma'aikatan Baltic Fleet, a cikin tsammanin tashin hankali na gaba. Ya yi aiki a lokacin Yakin Soviet-Finnish, kuma bayan mamayewar Jamus na Tarayyar Soviet, an ba shi aikin kwashe Soviet daga Tallinn
sannan ya dauki nauyin tsaron ruwan Leningrad. Nasarar da aka samu a wannan yanki ya biyo bayan wani alƙawari don ɗaukar nauyin da kuma samar da isasshen man fetur ga sojojin da ke aiki a yankin. Bayan ya cimma wannan, sai aka nada shi kwamandan rundunar, tare da muhimmin aiki na karewa da kuma ci gaba da bude hanyoyin zuwa tashar jiragen ruwa na Arewa. Ya sami nasarar shirya rakiyar da kuma kare rundunar Arctic, kuma ya sanya filayen jirgin sama da tallafi ga 'yan kunar bakin wake na Burtaniya da ke kai hare-hare a kan "Tirpitz". Don wannan sabis ɗin an sanya shi Abokin Abokin Bath ta Burtaniya.