CITY: Irkutsk region, village of Taras DATE OF BIRTH: 06/10/1924 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Nikolay Efimovich Alexandrov, was born in the ulus of Nizhnyaya Taras, Bokhansky district. The father died when he was 6 years old, after 2 years his mother died. There were five children in the family, three brothers and two sisters. The elder sister Agafya, born in 1914, replaced their mother. One of the brothers, Grigory, born in 1923, died in December 1941 near Moscow. In November 1943, Nikolai Efimovich was drafted into the Red Army and sent to study at the school of air gunners for long-range bombers such as IL4, TU2 at station. Blast furnace near Chita, where he studied until July 1944. At the end of which, he arrived in the 12th Air Army of the Leningrad Front of Long-Range Bomber Aviation on a TU2 bomber as an air gunner. From September 1944 he fought on the Karelian Front as part of the 7th Air Army. On October 4, 1944, TU2, after returning from the bombing of the northern ports of Norway, from where the Germans were exporting nickel to Germany, was hit by the fire of a German anti-aircraft machine gun, one of the engines caught fire, the plane began to lose speed and lag behind their own. The pilot, the commander, gave the order over the radio: “Don't leave the plane. I will try to plant it, but for now I will drag to the front line. " After some time, the pilot managed to land the damaged and burning plane on a dwarf tree. The events took place in the north of the Kola Peninsula. Nikolai Efimovich with everyone left the burning plane, while seizing an aircraft machine gun and ammunition for it. For more than two weeks, the crew of four people: pilot, navigator, radio operator, air gunner, went through enemy territory and went through the front line to their own. While they were making their way to the rear of the enemy in a distant ulus, to Siberia, from military unit 06871 from the Soviet Arctic, a "funeral" went to Baba Agafya that Alexandrov N.E., faithful to the military oath, fell in battles for freedom and independence of our Homeland. And about three months later, sister Agafya received a letter from his brother Nikolai that he was alive and well and that he sincerely wished them. In March 1945, his air regiment arrived in the 16th Air Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. Nikolai Efimovich took part in the battle and storming of Berlin from April 16 to 30, 1945, and bombed the Seelow Heights. His regiment then suffered heavy losses, the Germans fought doomily for this last line. Berlin itself bombed, the city was covered in smoke and fire, bombs were dropped at the command of the navigator. In mid-May 1945, part of the regiment's personnel was brought to Berlin, to the Reichstag, on the wall of which the father-in-law left his painting. At the end of July 1945, the air regiment, where Nikolai Efimovich served, under its own power from Germany through Poland, the Soviet Union flew to Mongolia for the war with Japan. Nikolai Efimovich and I restored the last segment of this flight many years after these events. From Krasnoyarsk, the air regiment flew to the airfield with. Dzhida in Buryatia, then headed for the Kashtak airfield in Chita, and from there along the Chita-Zabaikalsk railway line across the border with the Mongolian People's Republic to Choybolsan, arrived in early August 1945. The airfield was on the eastern side of the hill, and on the western side there was an anti-aircraft floor and an evacuation hospital where my parents served, I was 11 months old. Nikolai Efimovich ended the war in the Chinese port of Dairen "Dalny", near the city of Port Arthur.