Rank: colonel. Military branch: Aviation. Division: 2nd Watch Bomber Aviation Sevastopol-Berlin Division. Kindushev Ivan Ivanovich (1918-1989) - Hero of Soviet Union, my father, Ivan Ivanovich Kindyushev, was born on May 12, 1918 in Sevastopol. In 1938 he graduated from the Sevastopol Technical Building School and was sent by the Komsomol to the Krasnodar Military Aviation School for Navigators. My father's peace service was short. A few months after graduating from school, a battle alarm was sounded. The alarm is not a practice alarm - without lights off, for 1418 days and nights. June 26, 1941 - the first mission to bomb the Manstein Corps tank piles. How many such missions will be there by the end of the war! In the spring of 1942, by decree of the State Defense Committee, the long-distance aviation in which my father served during all the difficult years of the war was created. He bombed groups of workers and equipment, important railway junctions, naval bases and enemy airfields. He fought on the North-Western front, defended Moscow, took part in the defense of Leningrad and Stalingrad, the Kursk bulge, the liberation of Kiev, Minsk, Sevastopol, Poland, flew deep behind enemy lines, bombed Helsinki, Koenigsberg, Gdansk, Bucharest, Berlin. In 1944, as part of the 26th Division of the Guard's long-range air regiment, his father's crew was fortunate enough to take part in the liberation of their home city of Sevastopol by attacking the main enemy military installations directly in the city of Sevastopol and its surroundings. Her father's crew carried out 11 missions during the liberation of Sevastopol. After the liberation of the city, the aviation division received the honorary name "Sevastopol". Still in his lifetime his father's name was stamped on a memorial plaque on the mountain Sapun in Sevastopol together with the names of 240 heroes of Soviet Union - the liberators of Sevastopol. In the exhibition hall of the museum on Mount Sapun there is a stand where a photograph of my father and his personal belongings are displayed, guides tell about his life and military services for the motherland. In 2010 one of the streets of Sevastopol was named after him. Kindyushev, who went from being the navigator of Il-4 to the navigator of a bomber regiment, carried out more than 250 combat missions, including night flights on long-distance routes. He was repeatedly honored with state awards, and by decree of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of USSR on August 19, 1944 he was awarded the title Hero of Soviet Union. He has received the following state awards: the title Hero of Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star Medal, 3 Orders of the Red Flag, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Red Star. Medals: for military merits, for the victory over Germany, for the defense of Stalingrad, Leningrad, Moscow, etc. After the war he graduated from the Air Force Academy, then from the General Staff Academy, for many years he was a responsible member of the Air Force, worked in the General Directorate of Civil Aviation. Since 1958 he lived in Moscow. After his retirement he devoted a lot of attention to the patriotic education of the young generation and did a lot of public relations work. In 1978 he wrote the book "To victorious dawns", which was published by "Military memoirs". His father died on 18 May 1989 and was buried with military honors in Kuntsevo cemetery on the "Walk of Fame". In Moscow, in the school - lyceum 1568 in the museum "Legendary Sevastopol", which was opened with the help of the command of the Navy, the Mayor of Moscow Y.M. Luzhkov and the Prefecture "South Medvedkovo", a stand was created in 2012, which tells about the life and military way of my father.