Biography of Maresyev Alexei Petrovich

Information board in Orel Maresyev Alexei Petrovich-Deputy commander-navigator of the Aviation Escader of the Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps, I Air Army, Bryansk Front, and the Senior Lieutenant Guard. In the year he graduated from the 6th grades of the school in his hometown, in the year-the school of factory apprenticeship at the forestry.

In August - August, he worked as a metal turner at the Kamyshinsky forestry. Simultaneously with the work of the year he graduated from the 3rd year of the Rabfak at the Kamyshinsky Agricultural Institute, and was preparing to enter the Moscow Aviation Institute.

In August - March - Limarub of the Pivan Lesifast Komsomolsky district of the Khabarovsk Territory. He participated in the construction of the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. In March-August-a diesel mechanic on the partisan boat on the Amur River. In the year he graduated from an aero club in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. In the army since September. Until January, he served as an aircraft engineer of the GO border air detachment of the village of Kirovskoye, Tymovsky district of the Sakhalin region.

He served the aircraft P in January - September of the year studied at the Chita Military Aviation School of pilots, which was relocated to the city of Bataisk in the Rostov region in the fall of the year. In October, he graduated from the Batai Military Aviation School of pilots and, until July, served in it as an instructor pilot. Member of the Great Patriotic War: in July - October - a pilot of the fighter aviation regiment.

He fought on the Southern Front July - October participated in defensive battles in the south of Ukraine, on a fighter and stormed the advancing enemy troops. In October - March of the year, in a m -m -m -aircraft regiment, the village of Balanda, now the city of Kalininsk, Saratov Region, retrained to the Yak fighter in March - April - the commander of the GO Fighter Aviation Regiment.

He fought on the North-Western Front March-April participated in battles in the Demyansk direction. In the area of ​​the airfield, fighters shot down 7 enemy transport aircraft of the U Yu, who were in the air, two of which personally shot down A. when departed from the target of his Yak-1 was shot by the fire of anti-aircraft artillery of the enemy and a few minutes later the aircraft engine stopped.

During a forced landing on the forest, the plane touched the skiing out of the tree and rolled over. The pilot was thrown out of the cockpit, he hit his head very much on the ground and lost consciousness. This happened 4 km north of the village of Rabezha, Demyansky district of the Novgorod region. The searches of a downed airplane from the air were unsuccessful, and in the regiment A.

Maresyev was considered the dead ... About 10 days the pilot spent at the scene of the accident, recovering after the strongest concussion. After that, A. Maresyev tried, relying on a stick, through the forest and the swamp to get to people. With difficulty, having gone several kilometers per day, the pilot was exhausted from hunger rested for three days, after which he tried to go again.

Three days later, A. Maresyev was taken to the surgical field hospital in the village of Krasilovo Valdai district, and from there on April 30, they transported to the city of Valdai. In the evening of the same day, the commander of the air squadron of the fighter air regiment, Senior Lieutenant A. Dekhtyarenko, flew in Valdai for him by plane U-2 Po-2 and took a fellow soldier to the regiment.

As a result of severe frostbite, the spit was amputated by the feet and lower legs of both legs. Since the end of August, in the Moscow hospital, and then in a sanatorium in the city of Kuibyshev, now Samara, he began to study on prostheses and a month later he managed to convince the medical commission to recognize him as suitable for further service in aviation. In October-November, in the 3rd Military Aviation School of Primary Education of the pilots, the village of Ibresi, Chuvashia on the U-2 Po-2 plane underwent training in flights with prostheses.

In November - March - assistant commander of a separate telecommunication aircraft in the Moscow Military District, the city of Lyubertsy of the Moscow Region. He performed flights on a coherent U-2 aircraft in March-July in the Mark Aviation Regiment, the city of Ivanovo retrained to the fighter La in July-May-deputy commander-navigator of the air squadron, assistant commander of the regiment in the airborneized service and navigator of the Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

He fought on Bryansk July-October, the 2nd Baltic November and the 1st Baltic November-April of the Fronts. He participated in Oryol and Bryansk operations, offensive battles in the Vitebsk-Polotsk direction, Gorodok and Vitebsk operations. During the war he made 87 sorties on fighters and, Yak-1 and La-5, in air battles personally shot down 7 enemy aircraft from them 4-after amputation of the legs.

Since July-pilot inspector of the department of military educational institutions of the Air Force. Since July, Major A. Maresyev is retired. From August to year, he worked as the head of the aviation training of the Moscow special school of the Air Force. In September--responsible secretary, and C-1st Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans since the year-the Russian Committee of War and Military Service.Candidate of Historical Sciences, People's Deputy of the USSR in years.

He lived in Moscow. He died on May 18. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery. The 3rd degree was awarded by the Russian orders “Merit to the Fatherland” of the 3rd degree, the Honorary Citizen of the Oryol cities in the city of Kamyshin erected a monument to A. Maresyev, in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur and the village of Pyatorsk Kalachevsky district of the Volgograd region-its busts, and in the forest of the southwest of the village of Valdaisky region in the place, where in April in the years of the years It was found, a memorial sign was installed.

In the village of Ibresi Chuvashia on the building of the flight school in which he studied, and in Moscow, memorial boards were installed on the house in which he lived. The name of A. Maresyev is dedicated to the story of B. Polevoi “The Tale of a Real Man” was published in the year. Notes: 1 The exact date of birth is specified by the record of baptism in the Metric Book of the Holy Trinity Church of the city of Kamyshin.

The documents mistakenly indicate a different date of birth of A. Maresyev - May 20 of the year; 2 The literature provides an incorrect figure of 18 days, since A. Maresyev mistakenly believed that he was shot down on April 4; 3 The description of the events of April of the year was compiled on the basis of the story of A. Military titles:.