Ivan Ivanov (aviator)

Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (Russian: Иван Иванович Иванов, born October 8, 1909 in the village of Cziżowo (now part of the city of Friazino), died on June 22, 1941 in Dubno) - Soviet military airman, senior lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union (1941) . Curriculum vitae He finished his elementary school, worked as a blacksmith in a kolkhoz, from autumn 1931 served in the Red Army, he was a student of a military school in the Urals, and in 1933-1934 a military pilot school in Odessa. He was a flyer in the light bomber regiment in the Ukrainian Military District, in 1935 he became the commander of the key, as one of the first to perform night flights, at an altitude of 8,000 meters. In September-October 1939 he took part in the aggression of the USSR against Poland, and in 1939-1940 in the war with Finland; he made 7 combat flights on R-Z (including 3 at night), after the end of the war he returned to service in the Ukrainian Military District. At the end of 1940, in the rank of senior lieutenant, he completed aviation fighter training courses and became the deputy commander of the 46th fighter airforce squadron of the 14th Mixed Aviation Division. At the time of Germany's attack on the USSR at the head of the aircraft key he got into a meeting battle with a group of German He-111 bombers, leading an attack on the enemy. After a long battle, in which his plane was damaged and fell to the ground, Ivanov died. By order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 2, 1941, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Golden Star and the Order of Lenin. Bibliography

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