Leonid Kostin Biography

The tombstone 2 Kostin Leonid Nikolaevich - Deputy Commander of the Squadron of the Guards Assault Aviation Aviation Regiment of the Air Aviation Division of the Air Army of the Leningrad Front, Guard Senior Lieutenant. He was born on January 14 in the village of Virvo, now the Maloarkhangelsky district of the Oryol region in the family of a peasant. He graduated from high school.

In the Red Army since the year. In the year he graduated from the Voroshilovgrad military aviation school of pilots. Member of the Great Patriotic War since January. Deputy commander of the squadron of the Guards Assault Aviation Regiment I am an assault aircraft division, I am the Air Army, the Leningrad Front of the Guard Senior Lieutenant Leonid Kostin made combat sorties for the assault on the clusters of the adversary strength and military equipment of the enemy.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated August 18, for the exemplary execution of the command missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and the heroism of the guard shown to the senior lieutenant Kostin Leonid Nikolayevich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the honey “Golden Star”.

In the year he graduated from the Military Institute of Physical Education and Sports. Since the year, Captain L. Kostin is in stock. He lived and worked in Leningrad, then he went to master the extreme North Norilsk. Then fate abandoned him to Zhdanov now Mariupol, went on the ships of the Azov Marine Shipping Company. At the end of X he moved to Vladivostok, worked on the Kitoboynaya Flotilla "Far East" by the sailor of the 2nd grade.

During the next flight, he fell ill with pneumonia, the doctors could not save him. He died on January 14th. He was buried in the sea cemetery of the city of Vladivostok. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, two orders of the Red Banner, the orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Red Star, medals. They really carried death to the invaders, were maneuverable, well protected from bullets.

A lot of glorious affairs on the Ilov account. He became famous in these combat vehicles and L. During the period of military operations on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, he produced military sorties, destroyed 43 cars, more than 30 wagons with ammunition and manpower, 18 guns of field artillery and 15 anti -aircraft guns, 7 mortars with their calculations, 9 warehouses, a lot of railway wagons and other enemy equipment.

During this time, near Nazi soldiers and officers were killed. After the bombing and shelling of Kostin, up to 30 fires arose. For the very first 10 successful sorties, L. Kostin was awarded the Order of the Red Star, for the next 20 sorties-the Order of the Red Banner, another 20 sorties-and the Order of the 1st degree of Patriotic War appears on his chest.

But L. Kostin was especially distinguished in the year, when our troops were rapidly advancing. The silts always suddenly appeared above the heads of the Nazis, a well-aimed machine gun-gun and missile fire, bombing blows to the enemy, sowed panic in his ranks. Kostin was the first to attack the enemy. The direct hit of bombs and machine gun and gun fire, he set fire to a train with ammunition and combat equipment, destroyed two cars and several carts.

Many enemy soldiers and officers were killed. The commanders and comrades in the service have always noted the exceptional courage of L. Kostin, his high flight skills, initiative in battle. Even having completed the task, Kostin never passed the target if there was an opportunity to destroy it or at least cause any damage to the enemy. So it was July 17. The attack aircraft struck the accumulation of manpower and technology of the Nazis in the area of ​​Opochka -Krasnogorodskoye and were already returning to their airfield.

However, on the way back, pilots noticed the enemy’s railway train near Isakovo. Kostin was the first to rush to the enemy. Despite a strong barrage fire from large -caliber machine guns, he came out for sure and lit the wagons loaded with ammunition. There was a strong explosion. The train was destroyed.

And five days later, he again bombed and fired at the enemy echelon in the area of ​​Borovaya -Reykne stations. Major Nemenko and senior Lieutenant Baiziginov later told how the railway cars were blazing and ammunition was torn. And Kostin had already fired at this time an accumulation of enemy manpower. Guard Senior Lieutenant Kostin has always been exceptional accuracy of bombing. This was especially pronounced in the area of ​​the Catania station.

The pilots knew that there was a large ware of ammunition. Although the warehouse was carefully disguised, the scouts gave accurate coordinates. The whole difficulty was to blow him up from the first call, a sudden raid. I did not have to count on the second entry, since anti -aircraft artillery was placed around. Kostin with jewelry accurately brought his plane to the target and the first bombs hit the warehouse.

When the anti -aircraft guns opened fire, our plane was already far away, and enemy ammunition flew into the air from behind. The attack aircraft appeared over the heads of the Nazis unexpectedly and opened a machine gun-gun fire. The Germans rushed at the scatter, who could. An unimaginable panic rose on the road.And the group of Kostin again and again went to the target, pouring enemies with lead and throwing with bombs.

And so it was more than once. In just a few minutes, 15 cars, more than 20 wagons, 5 guns, up to 60 soldiers and enemy officers were destroyed here. And for the fulfillment of a combat mission to destroy artillery and mortar batteries in the Lichi area on September 26, the Guard Senior Lieutenant Kostin and his led ones received gratitude to the commander of the Air Army, Colonel General of Aviation Naumenko.

With one sudden blow, 10 attack aircraft suppressed the fire of two anti -aircraft batteries, destroyed 4 field artillery guns, 2 tractors, several mortars, up to 50 enemy soldiers and officers. The biography was prepared by:.