Lavrinenkov biography

Lavrinenkov Vladimir Dmitrievich Vladimir Dmitrievich Lavrinenkov was born on May 17 in the village of Ptakhino Smolensk district, the Smolensk province in the family of a peasant. He graduated from incomplete secondary school and the FZU school. In the Soviet Army since the year. He graduated from the Chuguevsky Military Aviation School in the year, worked as an instructor in the Chernihiv aviation school.

Member of the Great Patriotic War since June. The combat account was opened on August 5 in the sky over Stalingrad. In a month, battles shot down 16 enemy aircraft. At the end of October, he was transferred to the 9th Guards Odessa Fighter Aviation Regiment. The deputy squadron commander of the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, I am the fighter aviation division, the 8th Air Army, the Southern Front of the Guard, Junior Lieutenant Lavrinenkov by February, participated in 78 air battles, and personally shot down 16 and in group 11 of the enemy aircraft.

The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded on May 1 of the year. In August, the German Focke-Wulf reconnaissance aircraft rammed the German reconnaissance aircraft, after which he was captured. He fled, fought in a partisan detachment. For courage and courage in battles, the successful command of the squadron and 34 persons shot down by enemy aircraft on July 1 of the Guard Major Lavrinenkov was awarded the second medal “Golden Star”.

In July, he was appointed commander of the 9th Guards IAP. In total, during the war years he made combat sorties, in air battles personally shot down 35 and in the group of 11 enemy aircraft. After the war, he commanded the aviation division. In the year he graduated from the Military Academy named after M. Frunze, and B - the Military Academy of the General Staff. He served in the air defense forces.

Aviation Colonel General died on January 14 in Kyiv. A bronze bust in the city of Pochinok of the Smolensk region. Honorary citizen of the cities of Smolensk, repair and Sevastopol. Interesting facts are a characteristic episode showing the courage of the pilot, described in the book of A. Pokryshkin “Heaven of War”: “In the air, above the front line, I had repeatedly heard the surname of the leading group of Lavrinenkov.

He served in another regiment and often replaced us on the cover of our troops. The name of the pilot, often sounded on the air, is remembered tightly, then it, as it were, lives in memory, demanding new and new details about it. Later, the almost legendary story of this pilot reached our regiment. At the conference, I met Vladimir Lavrinenkov. Here the legend came to life for me in his true story.

We had lunch, dinner at a common table, business conversations were replaced by memories. There I saw this modest, silent, once holding on the side of the captain, whose name these days was the most popular among pilots. He obtained this glory not only with his air battles, which he spent dozens, but also a heroic act. Lavrinenkov also suffered from the German “frame”-an air intelligence officer and the Focke-Wulf adjustor.

He attacked her over the Mius River, where Berezkin suffered, when he ran into her during the attack. When opening the parachute, a gun torn off. In German territory, he was seized by soldiers, as they say, "by the legs." With him, there were no orders or documents - only in the pocket of the tunic of the house from the house. This surname we know, ”the German officer was delighted to interrogate.

The captain, of course, denied that this is his last name. But the German intelligence officers found an album of photographs of pilots, among whom it was easily recognized by Lavrinenkov’s characteristic, vigorous face. It was impossible to unlock further. They fell on the pilot with questions about the deployment, about the combat vehicles of our regiments. To talk about it or not to speak - completely depended on Lavrinenkov, his ideological resistance, beliefs.

He was silent. He was beaten.

In a simple hut of Donetsk, where this interrogation took place, the methods of the Gestapo dungeon were used. But they did not break the resistance of the communist pilot. The Germans had no choice but to send Lavrinenkov to a deep rear. Perhaps there they will untie the tongue of the horrors of concentration camps and sophisticated torture. But just in case, in order to arrange the pilot to himself with his workpiece, Lavrinenkov and another of our pilot-player were sent to the rear not to the way, not in the commodity, but in the compartment of the passenger car, for the company with German officers traveling home on vacation.

And Lavrinenkov decided firmly: to run, be sure to run, luck or death - all the same. Only a moment was needed. And it could only be chosen at night. So the last night has come. The train approached Odessa. The escort, placing their suitcases stuffed with bottles and conservatives, were carried away by food. Automatic machines are laid aside. Lavrinenkov and the attack aircraft pretended to be sleeping tightly.

The attack aircraft kept holding on to Lavrinenkov’s tunic, in order to rush with him by his first movement. The breath was squeezed, interrupted by insurmountable excitement. The feasts at the table were argued about something. So they both leaned to the suitcase, counting and laying something. The long -awaited minute has come. Lavrinenkov hit his suitcase. All that was in him flew to the escorts.

Scream in the compartment.Soviet pilots went out of the car at full speed of the train. A blow to the ground, somersault. Shots, flashes of fire, whistle of bullets. The train went on. In the village, pilots exchanged everything that was on them and with them, for simple clothes and wandered east. Not soon they, overgrown with beards, in rags, fell into one of the local partisan detachments and became its fighters.

After some time, they were transported by plane through the front line, and they returned to the unit. Here, an audit of the fifth flight of captivity suspected in such a “light” flight was supposed to begin. And she would, this test, perhaps dragged on for a long time if our army had not liberated the Donbass, in particular the village where German intelligence officers interrogated Lavrinenkov.

The old people who were in the closet of this hut, everyone heard what was happening behind the wall. They with admiration recalled a young browing pilot, who "praying a yak stone." The data of the partisan detachment, which came out to meet our units, and the name Lavrinenkov, his feat in a duel with German officers became famous throughout the country were added to these evidence.