Air force

Soldiers carry wounded patient aboard to aircraft starting out for a base hospital

Women of Moldavian ASSR, that built the fighter aircraft named after Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova on their personal savings

Pravdinsk. At the airfield. Chekalin Valentin Seliverstovich. Born in 1922 in the village Beloe of the Troitsky district of Altai Territory. In 1941 he was sent to the Kemerovo flight school. After graduation he served in the 19 th Air Aviation Army of the 423rd Fighter Regiment. Decorated with orders and medals.

Hero of the Soviet Union Khalzov Viktor Stepanovich (1921-1985), senior pilot of an assault aviation regiment.

Shapkin Nikolai Vasilievich (1923-1945), a native of the village of Krasnaya Pustyn, Sergach district. Guard senior lieutenant, pilot. Hero of the Soviet Union, the best air reconnaissance in the Baltic. He died on March 5, 1945 near the Polish city of Gdynia. Buried in Poland.

The crew of military pilots who died during a combat mission on November 20, 1942 on the territory of Kolyma. Deputy squadron commander, captain Ivan Alekseevich Kovylin, born in 1912, navigator, captain Dmitry Vasilievich Mikhasev, born in 1913, radio operator sergeant Nikolai Dmitrievich Boriskin, born in 1917. Photo courtesy of the library of the Susuman urban district.

Prokofiev V. Я. - participant Of the WWII. Born June 21, 1921 in the village of Shishlovo, Ostrovsky district, Pskov region. Called to the USSR Supreme Soviet on October 12, 1939 by the Vasileostrov Regional Military Commissariat of Leningrad. From October 12, 1939 to June 1940 - a cadet of the Krechevitsky School of Junior Air Specialists of the Leningrad Region. From September 1941 to July 1946, he was an air gunner and radio operator of 63rd night bomber artillery regiment of the 132nd artillery division, Transcaucasian Front, Independent Coastal Army, 4th Ukrainian Front, 1st and 2nd Belarusian Fronts. During this time of WWII has made 312 successful flights. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Great Patriotic War 2 articles, the Order of the Red Star, the Medals "For Courage", "For the Defence of the Caucasus", etc.

Khalizev Anatoly - pilot

First independent flight by student of skydiving and gliding club of the Society for the Assistance of Defense, Aircraft and Chemical Construction (abbreviated as OSOAVIAKHIM). Tatar Soviet Republic

Kolkhozniks of agricultural cartel “Kzil Bayrak” in Dubyazskiy region, Tatar Soviet Republic, handover airplane to Red Army. 1941-1945. Tatar Soviet Republic

Lieutenant General of Aviation Nikolay Vasilievich Shibanov. Born in 1923 in the v. Gorbunovo Belevsky district in Tula region. Military leader. Pilot of the 156th Fighter Aviation Regiment (1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts).

Shapovalov Alexander Alexeevich (18.03.1913-03.05.1986). From 1941 to 1945 he was a bomber pilot. Major, commander of a bomber squadron. Participated in the defeat of German troops near Moscow, fought on the Karelian front, in the Far East against Japanese militarists. For services to his homeland in the Great Patriotic War he was awarded orders and medals: the Order of the Red Banner of War, the Order of the Great Patriotic War II degree, the Order of the Red Star, the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War", the Medal "For Military Merit", the Medal "For the Victory over Japan", "For Bravery", etc.

Pilot, Guards junior lieutenant, navigator of the 15th Guards Division, Nikolai Tsatsyn (1924-1944) in the Red Army since 1940. 85 night sorties were successfully performed on the B-25. In 1944, when bombing military industrial facilities in Finland, Nikolai, being a target illuminator, in spite of bad weather conditions, illuminated the target. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and went missing on 25 June 1944.

Hero of the Soviet Union, First Lieutenant. At the front since June 1941. Flight Commander of the 29th Fighter Aviation Regiment, during four months of the war made 173 sorties. In ten air battles, he shot down seven planes (in a group). The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded posthumously on 22.10.1941. Awarded the Order of Lenin.

Grigory Semenovich Tsygankov (right). Spring 1942. GKU GAK.F.R-1483. Op.2. D.2. L.3