Anatoly Wassiljewitsch Lyapidewski
Anatoly Vasilyevich Ljapidewski ( Russian Анатолий Васильевич Ляпидевский ; born March 10 . Jul / 23. March 1908 greg. In station Beloglinskaja , government Stavropol , † 29. April 1983 in Moscow ) was a Soviet pilot .
Lyapidewski was one of the seven pilots who evacuated the shipwrecked crew of the steamer Cheliuskin , which sank in the Arctic Ocean in February 1934, from an ice floe. Because of this achievement, the Hero of the Soviet Union award was donated and the aviators were the first to be given in the history of the Soviet Union .
Life
Lyapidewski joined the Red Army in 1926 . In 1928 he graduated from the Sea Aviation School in Sevastopol and then served from 1929 as a flight instructor and officer in the Baltic Fleet . In 1933 he was transferred to the reserve and went to Aeroflot , where he worked as a line pilot in their Far East department. In 1934 it was Lyapidewski who discovered the missing Chelyuskin crew on an ice floe and flew out the first castaways in his TB-1 aircraft. On April 20, 1934 Lyapidewski was the first to receive the title "Hero of the Soviet Union". In the same year he became a member of the Communist Party . In 1935 he rejoined the army and graduated from Zhukovsky University until 1939 . He then worked at the Research Institute of the Air Force ( NII WWS) and worked until 1942 as deputy chief of the main inspection and as director of an aircraft factory. From 1942 to 1943 Lyapidewski was Deputy Commander of the Air Force on the Karelian Front in the 19th Army and was primarily responsible for field repairs in the 7th Air Army. In 1943 he was again given the management of an aircraft factory, a post he held until the end of the war .
After the war, Lyapidevsky was appointed Deputy Minister of the Aviation Industry and held this post until he was transferred to the reserve in 1961. He was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet and received the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin three times . In 1935 he wrote the book “The Fifth of March”. Lyapidewski's grave is located in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. In 1985 a memorial plaque was unveiled in his honor on Suvorov Prospect in Moscow.
literature
- Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation . Elbe-Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 .
Web links
- Biography , Geroi strany (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flieger Revue 2/85, "Umschau International", category "People", p. 41
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lyapidewski, Anatoli Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ляпидевский, Анатолий Васильевич (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beloglinskaya |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1983 |
| Place of death | Moscow |