Air force

Preparing a fighter aircraft for a combat mission in the 6th Guards. Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 62nd Fighter Aviation Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force ( refueling).

TSYGANOV DMITRY GRIGORIEVICH Tsyganov Dmitry Grigorievich (1919-1943), 1941-1942 - Guard Lieutenant, pilot from the 6th Guards Fighter Artillery Regiment of the 62nd Aviation Brigade of the Air Force of the Black Sea Fleet. He died in 1943 in the Caucasus.

Shlyk Illarion Vasilievich Shlyk Illarion Vasilievich (1917-1942), 1941-1942 - Senior Lieutenant, Flight Commander of the 367th High-Speed Bomber aviation Regiment of the 132nd Bomber aviation Division of the 5th Air Army of the Air Force of the North Caucasian Front. Died on 07/10/1942

Rank: Senior Lieutenant Type of troops: Aviation. Halimov Dzhimil Halimovich, was in the Red Army from 31.08.1935 Title: Senior technician-lieutenant. June 22, 1941 was in the Bialystok region of the BSSSR, the 13th AP of the Red Army Air Force of the BSSR. On the very first day of the war, the airfield was destroyed, an order was received to retreat, in case of being surrounded by the Germans, not to surrender. They were chosen in small groups, being completely unaware of their families and their fate. He was lucky, he met a grandma with a 2-year-old daughter at one of the crossings and even helped them get into one of the cars with refugees, giving them all his dry rations. Next time they will see each other only after 2 years. On July 22, 1941, Grandpa entered the order of 3 AE 118 MDRAKKP of the Northern Fleet Air Force, as a mechanic for the Pe-2 and Pe-3 aircraft. Provided more than 167 accident-free combat missions to bombing enemy troops and airfields. The crew served by my grandfather was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Red Banner. During the mission, 3 Pe-3 aircraft made an emergency landing, being knocked out by enemy fighters, and my grandfather with a group of technical personnel in difficult conditions in the front line in a short time restored the damaged aircraft. From December 1942, he worked in the 28th ORAE of the Northern Fleet Air Force as a flight mechanic on SB aircraft, during this time he served 6 night combat missions for bombarding enemy troops and airfields. Since March 1943, at 3 AE 118 RAP he has been working as a flight mechanic on the Hurricane aircraft. In August 1943, with his flight technical staff, he put into operation 3 Yak-9 aircraft and from October 1 to October 18, 1943, he served 58 daytime combat missions with his flight for reconnaissance of enemy ships and transports. The work in the Arctic was very difficult, especially during the winter.

Rank: Colonel. Type of troops: aviation. My father, Pavel Vasilievich Khrapkov, was born on September 17, 1914, died on May 23, 1993. Fighter pilot, participant of the Great Patriotic War from the first to the last day. Before the war, he lived in Leningrad, worked, studied at a flight course. From the first days of the war he was drafted into aviation. He recalled: “... constant raids and bombing by the Germans haunted our small group. We slept on planes, food was brought to our cars. You will forget a little, and again the order - “Air! Air!". We took off immediately. They fought back. Many of our people were shot down, but we did not remain in debt either. He himself was hit, woke up already in the hospital. On another occasion, he was surrounded by German aircraft. I was the squadron commander and they decided to take me prisoner. Above, below and on the sides of the enemy vehicles. I saw the smoke of a burning factory ahead and sent the car there, the Germans lost me. Another time he was shot down in the Luga area, and ended up in a group of soldiers leaving the encirclement. I was the only one who had a map. Brought everyone out. " After the exhausting battles of the first months of the war, some were sent to rest and reorganized in Kadnikov, Vologda Oblast (November 1941). The regiment lost more than half of its pilots in killed and wounded. We lived in apartments in Sokol, where he met my mother. Before the war, he had a wife and a one-year-old son in Leningrad. He received a message that they were killed by bombing on the train while leaving the city. My mother is a teacher, a divorced woman, fell in love, got pregnant. Her father asked her to leave her pregnancy: “I can be killed at any moment, and after me there will be no one left on earth. Do you know what it is like to go into battle when no one is waiting for you at home? " ... Battles near Moscow, then near Stalingrad. Letters, translations. But a year later, the first wife and son were found. Genka, son, was burned in that bombing, he has scars for life. Letters and transfers to Sokol stopped. The family of the head physician of the evacuation hospital lived in our apartment, she helped to find my father, arrange alimony. In the regiment, my father was called Peter for his outward resemblance to Peter the Great, which is why my patronymic is written in my documents "Petrovna". This photo was sent by Gena, with whom we sometimes corresponded. Father died on 05/23/1993 in Belarus, where they moved at the end of their lives. He was buried in Minsk at the Northern (military) cemetery.

CITY: s. Romanovka, Grodno region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1912 DATE OF DEATH: 01/01/1974 HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant Colonel Type of troops: Aviation Abramchuk N.I. was born on 20.11.1912 in the village Romanovka of Grodno region in a peasant family. After graduation, he worked at the shipyard named K. Marx in the city of Astrakhan. He graduated from the FZU school, studied at the workers' faculty of the Institute of Water Transport Engineers. In the Soviet Army - since 1932. On the ticket of the Central Committee of the Komsomol in 1933, he was sent to the Engels military aviation school. In 1936 he was assigned to the Far East, served in Primorye. At the front - since June 1941. He fought on the Southwest, Stalingrad, 1st Ukrainian fronts. He made sorties to attack enemy personnel and equipment, provided cover and escort for his bombers and attack aircraft. 08/01/1942 Captain Abramchuk guarded the Stalingrad railway station and, while repelling an attack by a group of enemy aircraft, personally shot down two Ju-88 aircraft. One of the crew members was taken prisoner. Squadron commander of the 894th Fighter Aviation Regiment (101st Air Defense Fighter Air Division of the country's territory) Captain Abramchuk by June 1943 made 239 successful combat missions. Personally shot down 11 enemy aircraft. For the heroism and fearlessness shown in the battles against the German fascist invaders. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 09.10.1943, Captain N. I. Abramchuk was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, 2 Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star, and medals. After the war, N.I. Abramchuk served in jet aviation. Since 1954, Lieutenant Colonel Abramchuk is in reserve. He lived in Kiev. He died in 1974.

Rank: Petty Officer. Type of troops: Aviation. Her combat path began in May 1942 at the station. Bakaritsa of Arkhangelsk within 1.5-2 months. completed the course of a young soldier, then was sent to the Karelian Front as part of the 7th Air Army of the 101st battalion, where part of it built dugouts for flight personnel and airfields and landing sites to guard the Kirov railway. (Murmansk-Vologda), along which military supplies and food were transported. This road was continuously bombed by enemy aircraft, so it had to work under the bombing. After the liberation of the Soviet Arctic, part of it was transferred to the West in the mountains. Kaliningrad (Tver), to Belarus, to East Prussia, and she was demobilized in August 1945 from the city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad). She was awarded medals "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", For the liberation of the Soviet Arctic "," For the capture of Konigsberg. "The Veteran of Labor medal, jubilee medals of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1942-1945 year 20,30,40,50,60,70 years. She has already gone through a lot, this is what she wrote in her memoirs: "Oh, and the girl's lot was hard in the war. I was appointed a foreman. We built airfields and landing sites for planes, cleared of felling, uprooted stumps. We worked for 16-20 hours under bombing. "The food was not important: 650 g of bread, but a talker, whitewashed with flour. Yes, sauerkraut, which we prepared ourselves. That's the whole ration." after the war came to her village: Not a single man. Women plow on themselves and fell wood. "And our mother has 6 daughters." I am the eldest. The only brother Pavlik (Pavel Aleksandrovich Pirogov, born in 1918, died a heroic death on the Sinyavinskiye heights near Leningrad, died on 14/01/1943 in the rank of corporal of the 71st Rifle regiment was a liaison and a member of the Komsomol "). , village of Gontovaya Lipka, east of the road, "- information from the personal list of irrecoverable losses of the commanding staff of the 71st rifle division from January 13-20, 1943. She had to raise all her sisters. And they lived with their great-grandfather for 44 years. grandmother Valya (journalist) and her brother Alexander. He is a retired lieutenant colonel. On May 9, Mom and Dad will carry the portraits of my great-grandfathers in the columns of the Immortal Regiment.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel Type of Troops: Aviation My grandfather Ivanov Alexander Vladimirovich was born in the city of Kovrov, Vladimir Region. The story is from him. I met the beginning of the war at the military school of pilots in the city of Armavir on June 22, 1941. In August we graduated from military school, but sent us not to the front, but to the Far East. There we had to protect the borders of our Motherland. But when it became definitely known that Japan would not side with Germany, the flight crew of three air divisions, 6 fighter regiments were sent to the front. The 3rd Fighter Corps was formed from the pilots of the Far East. The corps was commanded by Colonel Savitsky. The regiment was armed with the latest Yak-1 aircraft. All pilots were looking forward to the start of combat work. I was the youngest of the pilots in the regiment, I was in my twenties. With all my might I tried not to lag behind my comrades in flight work. The regiment began combat work. The first combat mission was to cover their troops in the area of ​​the city of Novorossiysk - Malaya Zemstanitsa Krymskaya. The weather was sunny, spring. Everyone tried to clearly maintain order of battle in the ranks. We came to the given area. We had an altitude of 4000 meters, on the radio I heard the voice of the commander of the group, Captain Lapshin: "Attention! The enemy is on the right" and immediately the command, "Let's attack!" The first air battle began. It was difficult to correctly assess the situation, there was not enough experience, unusual attention was distracted by fans of glowing trails and unfamiliar aircraft silhouettes; In this battle, our group did not shoot down a single aircraft, but all the pilots felt a real air battle, all of them had complete confidence in their abilities. In the next flight, the account of the downed aircraft was opened by the flight commander of Senior Lieutenant Sasha Lavrenov (later Hero of the Soviet Union). The air battles became more intense with each passing day. Air battles practically did not stop all day. Our pilots entered the battle immediately upon approaching the front line. In the last days of April, the fighting in the air turned into a real air battle. Our troops went on the offensive. The air was literally cramped. IL-2 attack aircraft were working near the ground. At medium altitudes, groups of bombers performed their tasks, each had cover for fighters. And all this happened over a small area, the village of Krymskaya - the city of Novorossiysk. Air battles lasted for several hours. Groups of aircraft on both sides changed without stopping the battle. In some air battles, 50 or more aircraft from each side took part. A few days before the end of the Kuban operation, in one of the sorties, after finishing the air battle, we headed for the airfield, for a while I relaxed my attention and came under fire from ME-109. The upper casing was torn off from the right edge, shrapnel hit the right arm and leg, the gas tank came out at an angle to the top of the plane. He swayed up and down from the oncoming air flow, holding on to the gas lines. ... Friends, seeing my position, covered me from the air. Everything went well, we managed to reach the airfield and land normally. It was another lesson that one should not forget the instructions of the senior pilots: "discretion begins with takeoff and ends with landing." Further, the combat path of our regiment passed through the south of Ukraine as part of the 4th Ukrainian Front. 1943 was the most productive year. Our troops marched from the walls of Stalingrad to Kiev. It is 1300 km. Every day, being above the troops, we watched this unstoppable advance. A dusty trail followed our columns of troops and equipment on all roads. Everyone moved west. On April 8, 1944, the liberation of Crimea began. The offensive began through Sivash. Three days later we landed at the Simferopol airfield. Crimea was cleared of German invaders in just 1 month. On May 9, Sevastopol was liberated. I would like to tell you about the Berlin operation. In January 1945, we, as part of the 1st Belorussian Front, took part in the liberation of Warsaw. The old Polish city was destroyed to the ground. In early April 1945, we landed at an airfield in Germany near the small German town of Morin. Berlin, as they say, is just a stone's throw away. For the aerodrome work, the German population was brought in, many women, teenagers, elderly men. We look at this nation with interest. None of them raise their heads, work with concentration, avoid eye contact. Thin, pale, now they feel the war at home. Every day we performed the main task of covering the ground forces. On April 16, 1945, the 1st Belorussian Front launched an offensive. There was a thick haze in the air, flew out in groups of 6-8 aircraft. The main task was to cover their ground troops on the battlefield. During the day, each pilot made 6-7 sorties. The complete superiority of our aviation was felt in the air. On one of the sorties we patrol in a given area west of the Oder with a group of 6 aircraft. I am the leader of the group. I see off to the side slightly above 6 "messengers".I get up on a parallel course with a climb. The Germans noticed us, but obviously they do not intend to enter the battle. We increase the speed, they will not be able to leave; I transmit to the guidance station "I see six messengers, we are attacking." The Germans have no choice but to accept the battle. Intense combat work continues every day. A week later we land almost at the very fascist den, 25 km away. from Berlin, next to the ring motorway. Here it is a fascist nest. It presented the darkest view from the air. Over the vast space, gray-dirty ruins, a sea of ​​fires and a black smoky sky smoked. In the last days, April 27-28, our regiment landed at the Dalgov airfield, 3-4 km west of Berlin, not far from its suburbs. It was a German experimental airfield. In the hangars we saw 2 ME-262 turbojet aircraft and one ME-163 jet fighter with a liquid-propellant jet engine. Pilots, hastily retrained from bombers and transport aircraft, began to appear in the air on German fighters. Some aces with iron crosses preferred to advance to the airfield to the Americans and British. In those days, I obviously turned up such a hastily trained pilot, inexperience was guessed in his actions. This was my last victory, the twelfth. On May 2, 1945, it was just beginning to dawn, we were awakened by explosions and automatic fires. We got up on alarm, a few minutes later we were at the planes. The regiment commander reported on the situation: "The German units are striving to break out of the center of Berlin and go west." Came just to our airfield. A short order follows: "After takeoff, release the entire ammunition load at the advancing (or, more correctly, at the retreating) Germans, landing at a nearby airfield." We take off, find clusters of dark figures in the middle of the street and houses stuck to the walls, and in long bursts we release all the ammunition at them. The technical staff and the aerodrome service took up defensive positions at the aerodrome. The headquarters of our division has already reported the situation above. Our tanks approached. The retreat was cut off. And by 15.00 on the same day, all units in Berlin ceased resistance. This mission on May 2 was the last combat mission. The war is over. We stood by the planes, looked at each other, quite differently, and smiled. And it became sad when they remembered their friends, pilots, who had not lived up to this day quite a bit. On this day, I felt both joy and pride that I was born in a Soviet country and that I am its full citizen. Ivanov Alexander Vladimirovich died on 13.03.1995.

Rank: Private First Class. Corps: aviation Division: 54th bombing aviation of Oryol division. Ivan Yesikov was drafted into the Red Army in 1939 at the age of 22. He left his wife and little daughter at home. He participated in the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940). In 1941, he was registered in the 714th Airfield Service battalion, as a driver. From 1945 to 1947, he served in the military unit: 146th Separate Aviation technical battalion, as head of the oxygen station. He participated in many military operations, was awarded of medals, and participated in the liberation of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Hungary. He returned home in 1947, where his wife and daughter were waiting for him. After that, my grandparents had three more daughters. Difficult conditions during the war, lack of sleep, rest, food had a bad effect on the health of my grandfather, he was very ill and passed away very early. He was only 46 years old. It is impossible to imagine combat flights of aircraft without the work that was performed by the personnel of the airfield service battalions in providing combat missions for the glorious pilots of the long-range aviation. Airfield Service battalion worked with a huge mass of ammunition, mostly bombs from fifty kilograms to one ton. Ammunition was delivered by several dozen wagons a day. They had to be unloaded, put in proper order, and brought to the aircraft parking places with three or four rounds of ammunition each. During the battles for Voronezh, Stalingrad, the Kursk bulge, and the Leningrad front, the Airfield Service battalion soldiers were literally physically exhausted, without sleep or rest, and provided combat sorties for ships in any weather. Ships that returned from their first sortie were refueled at the start and bombs were hung there. Vehicles, because of the deep snow, brought ammunition only to the sides of the airfield, they could not go further. The bombs were unloaded directly on the snow, from where the soldiers carried one two hundred-and-fifty kilogram bomb to the planes on sledges or skis in the deep and loose snow. There were not enough people, the volume was not controlled, and then the pilots, throwing off their overalls, also helped soldiers. Their work was not in vain. During this period, the first of ten Stalinist strikes was carried out… During the battle of the Kursk bulge, the Airfield Service battalion soldiers did not have enough 24 hours a day. During the day, they prepared planes, and at night they went to the combat guard. At night, the Germans bombed the airfield, scattered mines, these mines could blow up planes returning from a combat mission, and before they arrived, it was necessary to clear the runway of mines and fill in the craters. This was done again by soldiers and officers of the Airfield Service battalion. 1944-1945. The Airfield Service battalion No.714 served two air regiments at the same time on airfields: "Stronibaby "(Lviv) and "Melets " (Rzeszow) air hubs, in addition, provided significant assistance to other units in servicing the air regiments of the 4th Air Corps.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel. Branch of military: aviation. Division: 279th fighter aviation red banner division. Born on August 4, 1921 in the village of Gushchino, Oryol region. Arriving in Moscow, he got a job at the ZIS plant (aka ZIL) as an electrician. In the late 1930s, he signed up for an aeroclub near Moscow, which was based in the city of Reutov. After entering flight school, as a cadet, he flew the U-2 (Po-2), I-16, Yak-1. Since May 1943, Junior Lieutenant I. A. Yegorov in the active army. He fought in the 92nd IAC (279th IAD, 6th IAC, 16th Air army) on La-5 and La-7 aircraft. He was shot down twice (both times on the Kursk bulge: near the villages of Ponyri and Sevsk). It is mentioned in the famous book " 16th Air army...": "on September 14, 1943, four La-5s from the 6th IAK covered the advancing troops on the battlefield. The group was headed by Irkutsk Junior Lieutenant A. p. Soluyanov. Together with him, his younger brother Alexander fought in a pair. The second pair consisted of Lieutenant V. M. Vikhlyaev and second Lieutenant I. A. Yegorov. Meeting four FW-190s, the Soluyanov brothers suddenly attacked them. One" Fokker " was shot down by Soluyanov Jr., after which the enemy disappeared. Soon the pilots saw up to 25 Ju-87s under the cover of a large number of fighters that were heading to bomb our troops. Four Soviet fighters immediately launched an attack and engaged in a battle that lasted 25 minutes. "Lavochkin" came out victorious. The enemy bombers failed to complete their mission. They dropped their bombs without purpose and turned back to their own territory. The Soviet four shot down 3 Junkers and 3 Focke-wulfs in this battle. The battle score of the four brave falcons grew from day to day. In the summer offensive battles, the Soluyanov brothers, Vikhlyaev and Yegorov conducted 31 air battles and shot down 24 enemy aircraft. During these battles, Lieutenant Vikhlyaev destroyed 8, the Soluyanov brothers - 10, and Junior Lieutenant Yegorov - 6 enemy aircraft." In total, during the war, senior Lieutenant I. A. Egorov made 243 sorties (150 of them-to cover attack aircraft), conducted 53 air battles, personally shot down 10 aircraft (4 FW-190, 1 Me-109, 4 Ju-87, 1 Ne-111) and 1 Ju-52 was counted as a group victory. After the end of the war, Ivan Alekseyevich served for some time in Austria and Hungary. He flew La-9, La-11, MiG-15, MiG-17 aircraft. He retired in 1959 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He worked at the Rubin plant (Moscow region), and then - in the Ministry of Civil Aviation of the USSR. He retired in 1986. He died on June 21, 2005. Awarded the order of the red banner (three times), world war II 2nd degree, red Star (twice); medals: "For bravery", "for the capture of Vienna", "for the capture of Budapest" and others.

Rank: Second Lieutenant military Branch of military: aviation Kaplin Alexander Petrovich was born in 1922 on April 18, in the family of a worker, place of birth farm Sidorovo-Kadamovsky Oktyabrsky district of the Shakhty district of the Rostov region. In February 1941, he was drafted into the red Army by the Oktyabrsky rural District Military Commissariat of the Rostov region and was enrolled in an aviation school. After graduating from an aviation school, he was enlisted as a pilot in the 6th Separate air Ambulance regiment of the 16th air army of the Belarusian front. Sergeant Kaplin Alexander Petrovich, a pilot of the 2nd Aviation squadron transported seriously ill people from the front line to the rear, delivered medicines and blood for the wounded to the front, being chased by enemy fighters. From May 1943 to November 1943, he made 198 operational combat sorties, during which he took out 259 wounded, transported 90 liters of blood, 380 kg of medicines, and 23 consultants on a LI-2 transport plane. In November 1943, he was awarded the Medal "for BRAVERY"for excellent performance of tasks of The military sanitary Department of the front. Awarded the order of the Patriotic war, 2nd class for successful completion of tasks. From November 1943 to August 1944, he made 280 operational sorties. In September 1944, for his courage and dedication, he was awarded the second order of the Patriotic war, second class. Medals "for the Liberation of Warsaw", "for the capture of Berlin"," for the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 "anniversary medals in honor of" Victory in the Great Patriotic War 20 years, 30 years, 40 years", anniversary medals"Armed forces of the USSR 50 years,60 years,70 years".

Rank: Petty officer of the 2 class. Military branch: aviation. Division: 5th mixed aviation division. Brothers Vyacheslav and Sergey graduated from high school in the late thirties of the last century. They were born in Moscow, but in their school years the family moved to Crimea. They fell in love with this amazing area and learnt all about it. At first, they went on trips on a cart drawn by a bityug horse with their teacher and other students. The teacher was not young but took every opportunity to show the children something novel and interesting. Later, as they grew older, they rode bicycles around the Peninsula along with their friends. They rode to Nikolaevka to swim in the sea, rode out for overnight trips near rivers and waterfalls, mountains and prairies. In 1937, Vyacheslav graduated school and entered the Kherson Agricultural Institute. The world was in a restless state: there was a war with Finland; despite the pacts, Germany was still a threat. After finishing the second year of the institute, Vyacheslav was drafted into the army. He studied at the Kirovobad aviation school. At the aviation school, together with other cadets, he studied the structure of aircrafts, learned to fly Yak fighter planes and Ilah attack planes. He met the Crimean, Ruslan there. He became friends with the Belarusian, Dmitry, and the Yakut, Vasily. Dad recalled that there the cadets saw for the first time the blooming, with a unique subtle aroma, and then fruit-bearing, tangerine gardens. Persimmons and pomegranates grew there as well. And never again in their lives did they eat so many and such delicious tangerines and other fruits. Once they even found a canister of alcohol on the railway tracks; they tried it, but not everyone liked it. In the aviation school, many cadets, including Vyacheslav, got small tattoos on their shoulders with outstretched wings, which demonstrated that they belonged to aviation. After graduating from aviation school, Vyacheslav served in the 61st independent engineering and airfield battalion of the 5th air army of the Transcaucasian front with the rank of sergeant and was a battalion commander. The terrible, merciless war began. From airfields that were built and restored by the battalion, combat fighters and attack aircrafts took off, pilots destroyed the invaders in Crimea as well as other regions, where parents, friends and girlfriends remained: the peninsula was already occupied by the Germans and Romanians. After the occupation of Crimea by the Nazis, my grandmother had to burn all the letters from her sons, as it was dangerous to leave frontline letters in the house. At the front in 1942, Vyacheslav joined the communist party. As part of the 1st Belorussian front, he liberated Belarus, Poland, and Germany. At the end of the war, the unit in which he served became part of the Polish Army. At that time, Vyacheslav was a party manager of the 483rd battalion of the air force squadron. He celebrated the victory in Berlin. He was wounded several times. At the frontlines, friends gave him a small trophy accordion, which he quickly learned to play, remembering his piano lessons. Later, they managed to find a violin, which was played by his comrade Boris from Odessa. In Poland, the unit was placed in Lodz at first, then was transferred to a small town of Novy Dvor. There, in one of the rooms, they found an out-of-tune piano. There, during times of rest, they were able to hold real concerts and invite other soldiers of the battalion to them. The piano was played by Taras from Kharkov. Vyacheslav's friend Tolik Koroteev from Gorky city sang. There were many other friends and acquaintances with whom my father and we maintained relations after the war. My father did not return home until the summer of 1947. His father and mother survived the German occupation, were alive and well. But his younger brother, whom Vyacheslav loved very much, was not anywhere to be seen. And their search for him was unsuccessful… A long, decent life lay ahead. It entailed participating in the restoration of a war-torn country, studying, working, loving, building a family, participating in the transformation of the Crimea into a land of orchards and vineyards, getting hobbies...

Rank: Senior Lieutenant. Type of troops: aviation. Division: 213rd night bomber aviation Vitebsk Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. Before the Great Patriotic War, Dmitry Sergeevich Gavrilov worked as a mechanic, then went to study and successfully graduated from the flight school. In the army since June 22, 1941. 24th Guards Bomber Aviation Yukhnovsky Order of Kutuzov Regiment. He fought on the Northern, then Volkhov fronts. He flew in the daytime and at night. He carried out especially difficult reconnaissance and bombing missions, transported seriously wounded soldiers and commanders. Often he carried out combat missions in the most difficult meteorological conditions, with limited visibility and at low altitude. He performed over 1000 sorties, of which more than 500 combat missions. In the flight service, he showed examples of perseverance, dedication and contempt for death, in order to achieve an early victory over the enemy. For the exemplary performance of complex combat missions, for the courage,valor and fearlessness shown at the same time, he was awarded government awards. Once, performing an important mission on an ambulance plane, taking out seriously wounded soldiers, he was attacked by two enemy fighters. The plane was badly damaged, and the pilot was seriously wounded in the leg. Despite the serious injury and damage to the aircraft, Gavrilov D.S. skillfully brought the plane out of the fire, planted it in the forest and saved the lives of the wounded. After the Great Patriotic War, Gavrilov D.S. moved to civil aviation. Passed training in helicopter piloting. He worked as a commander of a helicopter detachment. He worked with oilmen from Tyumen and Urengoy. Finished flying service at 60. Then he continued to teach young cadets an honorable and responsible flying business.

Born on February 18, 1923 in the village of Vysokogorodetsk, Aban District, Krasnoyarsk Territory, into a peasant family. Parents died in 1937-1938. Victor studied first at an elementary school in the village of Vysokogorodetsk, then at a school in the village of Aban. He graduated from 8 classes of Aban secondary school in 1940. In the 9th grade, Bogutsky studied only until November 22, 1940. In October 1940, on a Komsomol ticket, he entered the Kansk Aero Club. After graduating with honors from the flying club on April 3, 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army by the Aban RVK of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and enrolled in the Omsk military aviation school of pilots. On December 9, 1942, after graduating from the aviation school, he was appointed a pilot of the 17th training aviation regiment of the 8th reserve aviation brigade in Kazan with the assignment of the military rank of sergeant. From June 10, 1943 - pilot of the 99th Guards Trans-Baikal Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment. Already on July 20, 1943, by order of the regiment commander for the first 10 successful combat missions to reconnaissance of enemy troops, the Guard Sergeant Bogutsky was awarded the medal “For Courage”: “Fulfilling combat missions with strong opposition from anti-aircraft artillery and repeated attacks of enemy fighters, skillful maneuver and going into the clouds fully completed the tasks. He managed to reveal the movement of troops on highways, found 45 aircraft and 24 echelons at railway stations at enemy airfields. " On August 31, 1943, when a Pe-2 aircraft approached the assigned reconnaissance area Pochep-Unecha, Starodub one of the engines refused. The pilot had the right to go back. But he completed a combat mission, after which 210 km, conducting reconnaissance over enemy territory, walked on one engine, every minute at the risk of being shot down. On September 10, 1943, the Guard Junior Lieutenant Bogutsky was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In the spring of 1944, he flew 32 more reconnaissance missions for the movement of enemy troops in Latvia. He flew without cover for fighters at an altitude of 3000-4000 meters, during the execution of missions he was fired upon by anti-aircraft artillery 14 times and 9 times attacked by enemy fighters. In March, he carried out a special task of the reconnaissance department of the army headquarters for wide-angle aerial photography of large areas in the Soviet offensive zone. For the excellent performance of combat missions on April 30, 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. For valuable intelligence on the movement of troops and the basing of aviation at enemy airfields, the guard senior lieutenant Bogutsky was awarded the second Order of the Red Banner on August 18, 1944. The fame of the fearless pilot thundered all over the front. Bogutsky was assigned the most difficult tasks. The attacks of large groups of bombers and attack aircraft were planned according to air reconnaissance data. In 1944, the pilot's intelligence was used in the preparation of the summer and autumn offensives of the troops of the 2nd Baltic Front. The crew of V.S.Bogutskiy photographed the entire system and power of the enemy's defense in areas with a total area of ​​1117 km2, and uncovered the defensive system in an area of ​​345 km2. All these data contributed to the successful breakthrough of the enemy's defenses and the development of the offensive success of our troops. On October 26, 1944, the Guard Senior Lieutenant Bogutsky was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. From the presentation for the award: “Taking part in the war since June 1943, he flew 120 successful combat missions to reconnoitre and photograph enemy troops and equipment. When conducting reconnaissance and photographing large defensive lines and areas 35 times he met the opposition of enemy fighters, but during air battles he always came out victorious, 46 times fired by anti-aircraft artillery, but with the right maneuver combined with cunning and fearlessness, he always performed the tasks perfectly. Meeting strong opposition from enemy fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft artillery at low and high altitudes, Comrade Bogutsky five times brought the Pe-2 aircraft on one engine to his airfield and, as a rule, with a fully completed combat mission. " Viktor Bogutsky did not have time to learn about the Hero's Golden Star and receive the second Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, to which he was presented on January 25, 1945. The order on awarding him was signed on the day of his death - February 23, 1945. On February 23, 1945, senior lieutenant Viktor Bogutsky of the Guard died while performing another combat mission. This was another sortie in the final operation to eliminate the enemy's Kurland grouping to photograph objects in the Konigsberg area. On the route, the scout was surrounded by fascist fighters. The plane was shot down, the crew was killed. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 18, 1945, Senior Lieutenant Viktor Stepanovich Bogutsky was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) for the exemplary fulfillment of combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the German fascist invaders and the courage, courage and heroism of the guards displayed at the same time. Only in 1972, the search group found the place of death of the crew of V.S.Bogutsky.The plane was shot down 10 km from the town of Pinkuli, Latvian SSR. The remains of three crew members were buried with military honors in a mass grave in Ainadi, 60 km from Liepaja. By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR V.S.Bogutsky was forever enlisted in the lists of the personnel of the military unit. On May 9, 1985, a bust of the Hero was installed in the village of Aban. Since 1963, one of the streets of the village of Aban, Krasnoyarsk Territory, has been named after the Hero. In 1968, the Museum of the Hero was established at school No. 4 in Aban, in 1979 the school was named after him. A memorial plaque was installed on the house in the village. Vysokogorodetsk of Abanskiy district, where he lived.

Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov (March 29, 1915 - October 16, 2000) - Soviet military leader, Lieutenant General of the USSR Air Force, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Russian Federation (1998). Born on March 29, 1915 in the village of Tesaly, Gorodok district, Vitebsk province (now the village of Gurki, Mekhovsky district, Vitebsk region, Republic of Belarus). In 1929 he graduated from seven classes of school, soon moved to Leningrad. After graduating from the workers' school, he worked at the Krasny Oktyabr plant. He began his studies at the aviation school of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR in Tambov, graduated in 1936. He stayed at the school as an instructor pilot. In 1938 he became the commander of a ship (Moscow Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR), was a member of the crews of ambulance and passenger aircraft. Member of the Soviet-Finnish war. He served in the air ambulance aviation, showed courage, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In the Red Army since 1941, a participant in the Great Patriotic War from the first days. He became a member of the Moscow Special Purpose Group of the Civil Air Fleet. In September 1941, he became deputy squadron commander of a special squadron for supplying besieged Leningrad. By the end of the year, he made about 120 flights to the besieged city. Lieutenant Semyonkov did an excellent job with the tasks - during the work of the group, he delivered 81 tons of cargo to Leningrad and removed about 650 people from it. As of January 16, 1942, Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov flew 223 sorties, 12 sorties for airborne drops. On May 25, 1942, the head of the GUGVF, Lieutenant-General Astakhov, Senior Lieutenant Semenkov was presented for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. He was a squadron and regiment commander. Participated in the operation to force the Dnieper, the Battle of the Kursk Bulge. In total, during the entire war, he made more than 500 sorties. On the night of May 9, 1945, Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov was instructed to deliver to Moscow a Soviet copy of the Act of Germany's unconditional surrender. After Victory - again in the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR, he was appointed commander of a separate air group of international air communications, then held other positions. In 1953 he became the head of one of the departments of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR, later became the head of the State Aviation Inspectorate. In 1957, he was the first in the USSR to fly a transatlantic flight from Moscow to New York on a Tu-104 aircraft. Since 1970 - First Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation. In 1975 he retired with the rank of lieutenant general. He lived in Moscow, worked in one of the Moscow military registration and enlistment offices. By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 83 of January 26, 1998, Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for his courage and heroism in the struggle against the Nazi invaders in the Great Patriotic War. He died on November 16, 2000 in Moscow. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery. Awards and honorary titles: Hero of the Russian Federation (January 26, 1998) Gold Star Medal Two Orders of Lenin Order of the October Revolution.