Kokkinaki pilot biography

Ilyushin, Major General of Aviation. Born on June 12 25 in the city of Novorossiysk of the Black Sea province of the Krasnodar Territory. Russian ethnic Greek. In the year he graduated from a 4-class city school later on an external school passed exams for the course of the school of the 2nd stage. From a year he worked as a laborer on grape plantations, a sailor-and a loader-in the Novorossiysk port, a carrier conductor and the forwarder of the Southeast Transport office-, again, a loader in the port-in the physical education work of the GO Rifle Regiment, the city of Novorossiysk.

In the army since December. He graduated from the regimental school. Until July, he served as the commander of the department and the chemical rifle rifle regiment of the Taman Rifle Division, the city of Novorossiysk.

In December, he graduated from the Leningrad Military Theoretical School of the Air Force, in March-the Borisoglebsky Military Aviation School of pilots. Served in the Air Force by a pilot of the fighter aviation squadron in the Leningrad Military District; The village of Krechevitsa, now in the city of Veliky Novgorod. In April-December-pilot-instructor of the Leningrad Military Theoretical School of the Air Force.

In January-March-a test pilot of the Air Force Scientific and test institute. He participated in the state tests of the fighter and, in the tests of the "link" of the TB-1 bomber with I-4 fighters on the wings, as well as the TB-3 bomber with I-5 fighters. Next year, he was a leading pilot group of five aircraft and, painted in red, which on May 1 of the year flew over Red Square for the first time.

From the plane, to reduce weight, almost all devices were removed, a thin plank was installed instead of sitting, and the pilot itself was dressed only in a warm flight jacket with non -oxygen mask. The USSR was not yet a member of the FAI International Aviation Federation, this achievement was not officially registered as a global aviation record. In March-October-the senior tester-test of the OKB S.

in July-September, set four world aviation lifting records to the Central Design Bureau. Bryandinsky made a non-stop flight along the Moscow-Far East City of Spassk-Dalniy, Primorsky region with a length of 6. This flight proved the possibility of quickly transferring bombers to the Far East in the event of an armed conflict with Japan. After the establishment of a special distinction, he was awarded the Golden Star medal.

Due to bad weather conditions, he was forced to make a forced landing on the island of the Miscoo Atlantic coast of America. Since the year, it is this route that has been used for regular non-stop flights from Moscow to New York and vice versa. Kokkinaki and M. Gordienko were awarded Lenin’s orders and medals “For Courage” the only case when for one feat was awarded at the same time as an order and medal.

Kokkinaki lifted into the air and conducted tests of cars, which, a year later, formed the basis of the assault and long -range bombing aircraft of the country. During the Great Patriotic War, he combined the work of a test pilot, head of the Main Inspectorate of the People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry of the USSR Mart-February and the head of the flight test service of the aviation industry.

He flew until October, his common raid was 7. Set 20 global aviation records: in years - 7 speed records and lifting capacity on the Central Design Bureau aircraft; In the years-13 speeds of speed and lifting capacity on the silt from January, Major General of Aviation V. Kokkinaki-in reserve. After leaving the flight work, he continued to work in the OKB S.

Ilyushin engineer-method as a methodist, and from a year as a responsible representative of the general designer in a flight-volume complex. C-vice president, and in November-October-President of the International Aviation Federation of the FAI. The honored test pilot of the USSR lived in Moscow. He died on January 7th of the year. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery.

The Lenin Prize laureate was awarded the 6th Orders of Lenin, the Honorary Citizen of Novorossiysk, the Bronze Bust of V. Kokkinaki, was awarded the Golden Aviation Medal of the FAI in the city of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Territory. In Moscow, a memorial plaque was installed on the house in which he lived. Busts are also installed in the city of Borisoglebsk of the Voronezh region and at the airport of Anapa, Krasnodar Territory, bearing his name.

In Novorossiysk there is a street of Kokkinaki brothers. From the year, the name of the hero is the name of the hero “Vladimir Kokkinaki” the port of the postscript - Novorossiysk, up to a year was also worn by two passenger river steamboats “Kokkinaki” ports of the postscript - Moscow and the village of Dudenyovo of the Bogorodsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Notes: 1 so in the text of the decree. In fact, landing was carried out in the city of Spassk-Dalniy, that is, more than a km from Vladivostok. Military titles:.