Biography of Amet Khan Sultan

Bust in with. Elkhotovo Amet-Khan Sultan-commander of the air squadron of the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 6th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 8th Air Army, Southern Front, Captain Guard; Assistant to the commander of the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment in the airborne service I am the Air Army, the 1st Belorussian Front, the Major Guard.

The Crimean Tatar father is a lacker, mother is the Crimean Tatar. Correct name, patronymic and surname-Amet Sultanovich Amet-Khan. In the year he graduated from the 7th grade of the school in Alupka, in the year-the railway school of factory apprenticeship in Simferopol.

In the years, he worked as a locksmith to repair steam locomotives in the Simferopol depot. In the year he graduated from Simferopol flying club. In the army since February. In March, he graduated from the Kachinsky military aviation school of pilots. He served as a pilot in the mf fighter aviation regiment in the Belarusian Special Military District; Bobruisk city of the Mogilev region and the 4th fighter aviation regiment in the Odessa Military District; The city of Grigoriopol, Transnistria.

A participant in the Great Patriotic War flew on fighters: in June-November-a pilot, a link commander, deputy commander and commander of the 4th Fighter Aviation Regiment. He fought on the Southern Front of June-October, as part of the Yaroslavl-Ribbinsky Air Defense District December-July, on the Bryansk July and Stalingrad August-October. He participated in defensive battles in Moldova and in the south of Ukraine, the air cover of Rostov-on-Don and Yaroslavl, the Voronezh-Voroshilovrad operation and the defense of Stalingrad.

At the end of August, the Yak-7B was shot down by anti-aircraft fire, the pilot was saved on a parachute. At the same time, the Hurricane wing of Amet-Khan stuck between the motor and the fuselage of the sunbathing enemy aircraft. The pilot managed to get out of the cabin of his car and throw himself with a parachute. For this Taran, the pilot was awarded the Order of Lenin.

In November-May-the commander of the air squadron and assistant commander of the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment in the airborne rifle service. He fought on the December-January-January, South January-October, 4th Ukrainian October-May, 3rd Belarusian October-April and 1st Belarusian April-May Fronts. During the war, he made combat departures from them 70-to storm manpower and equipment of the enemy on fighters and, Hurrikain, Yak-7B, Yak-1, R AeroCobra and La-7, and personally shot down 30 in air battles and consisting of 19 enemy aircraft.

After the war, until August, he continued to serve in the Air Force as an assistant to the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment in the airborne rifle service in the group of Soviet troops in Germany. Since February, he flew on a fighter of the year at the Monino Air Force Academy. Since April, Major Amet-Khan Sultan is in stock. Since February, he worked as a test pilot at the Flight Research Institute, the city of Zhukovsky, Moscow Region.

He participated in the tests of the world's first winging system of fuel refueling in flight, tests of a manned-combined-ship aircraft of anti-ship aircraft KS-1 Comet, the tests of the first aircraft with a trapezoid wing of small extension of NM-1, tests of new catapulting systems and experimental engines in flying laboratories. He died on February 1 in the testing flight at the Flying Laboratory of Tull, designed to test a new jet engine.

He lived in the city of Zhukovsky in the Moscow region. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery. The Honored Player of the USSR was awarded 3 orders of Lenin Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree Honorary Crimean, posthumously and honorary citizen of Alupka Crimea; , posthumously. The bronze bust of Amet-Khan Sultan is installed in Alupka. In the village of Dymokur residents of the Yaroslavl district of the Yaroslavl region, a commemorative sign was installed at the landing site of the hero after Taran.

The memorial boards are installed in the alupka on the house in which he lived, and at the school in which he studied, as well as in Simferopol on the station building, where he worked, in Melitopol Zaporizhzhya region, Ukraine on the house where he stayed, in the village of Bagerovo Crimea, where he conducted the tests, and in Zhukovsky on which he lived and on the street, and on the street wearing him.

Name. The Alupka created the Amet-Khan Sultan Museum. Notes: 1 In a number of documents, another date of birth is indicated - October 25. However, in autobiographies, the hero himself indicated the date of birth - October 20; 2 was awarded for the implementation of combat sorties and participation in 79 air battles, in which he personally shot down 11 and as part of the group of 19 enemy aircraft on April 28; 3 was awarded for the implementation of combat sorties and participation in air battles, in which he personally shot down 30 and as part of the group of 19 enemy aircraft on April 20.

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