Rank: Major Branch of the Army: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Division: 261st Mixed Aviation Division. Pre-war biography: Alexander Ivanovich Kravtsov from 1910 to 1924 - lived in the city of Elista, graduated from a four-year parochial school. He continued his studies at the grammar school in Blagodarnoye city, where he lived in a private pension with his older brothers Fyodor, Nikolai and Vladimir. After the death of his father, he moved to his older brother Ivan in Astrakhan, where he entered a fishery technical school, but without finishing it he went to Leningrad, where one of the older brothers went to work. In Leningrad, he worked in the tire vulcanization workshop of the Krasny Triangle plant and studied and later graduated from the evening workers' school. In 1934 he entered and in 1939 graduated from the Military Medical Academy of the Red Army named after S.M. Kirov. Received an Honors Diploma with the qualification of a doctor. 75% of the excellent marks in the entire academic course enabled A. I. Kravtsov to receive a diploma "with distinction" among six people from the course (260 students). In autumn 1939 he was assigned to our concentrated troops on the border with Finland, where he started the war as a battalion doctor. In April 1940 (after the end of the war) he was appointed to serve in Novgorod as a resident of the surgical department of the Novgorod military hospital. During his studies at Military Medical Academy he went on trips from Leningrad to the Crimea or the Caucasus during the summer holidays. He loved mountaineering, was a trained mountaineering instructor, led groups on routes he particularly loved, and climbed the Elbrus repeatedly. In August 1939, on the eve of his graduation from the Academy, he and his friends found themselves at a military tourist base in the city of Sukhumi. The neighbor on the beach of the campground was Alexey Troitsky with his wife Vera Nikolaevna and his daughter Ariadna. This acquaintance ended with the wedding in July 1940 of Alexander Ivanovich Kravtsov and Ariadna Alekseevna Troitskaya. Main characteristics of the character: determination, responsibility, perseverance in achieving goals, thirst for knowledge, interest and lust for life. Military biography June 22, 1941 - October 1941 - Chief of the medical and sanitary service of the 10th Fighter Aviation Brigade (IAB). Karelian front. Leningrad Military District. October 1941 - April 16, 1942-Senior military doctor of the 609th Fighter Aviation Regiment (IAP) of the 103rd Fighter Aviation Division (IAD). Karelian Front. Leningrad Military District. 16 April 1942-17 May 1942-Division doctor of the 126th Fighter Aviation Division (IAD). Karelian Front. Leningrad Military District.17 May 1942 - 07 April 1943-Flagship doctor of the 26th Army of the Soviet Air Force. Karelian Front. Leningrad Military District.17 May 1942-April 1943 07 April 1943-09 May 1945-Division doctor of the 261st Army Mixed Aviation Division (SAD). Karelian Front. Leningrad Military District. Biography after the war: 1945 - 1946 - Deputy Head of the Sanitary Directorate of the Belomorsk Military District of the city of Petrozavodsk. 1946 - 1948 - Student of the command and medical faculty of the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad. In 1948 he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel of the medical service. 1948 - 1952 - Head of the aviation medicine department of military unit 78864, Minsk. 1952 - 1960 - Chief Physician of the Air Defense Army, Moscow. In 1955 he was awarded the rank of Colonel of the Medical Service. In 1960 he was dismissed from the army to the reserve. 1960 - 1964 - Senior teacher of medical training at the military department of the Moscow Institute of National Economy named after G.V. Plekhanov, Moscow. 1964 - 1971 - Head of the Medical and Sanitary Department of the USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation, Moscow. 1971 - 1980 - Methodologist of the Civil Aviation Directorate of the Central Regions and the Arctic.