Georgi Filippowitsch Baidukow
Georgi Filippowitsch Baidukow ( Russian Георгий Филиппович Байдуков * 13 . Jul / 26. May 1907 greg. In Taryschta in Tatarsk , Tomsk Governorate , today Novosibirsk Oblast ; † 28. December 1994 in Moscow ) was a Soviet pilot in the rank of colonel general of pilots .
Life
After training as a roofer and then attending a railway company school, Baidukow joined the Red Army in 1926 and completed his training at the 1st Military Aviation School in 1928. In 1931 he became a test pilot at the Scientific Research Institute of the Air Force , where he met Chkalov . From 1934 to 1935 he studied at the Zhukovsky Academy . Then Baidukow and Tschkalow began preparing for a long-haul flight with a Tupolev ANT-25 , whose crew also included Belyakov and in the course of which the permanent flight record could be increased to 56 hours and 20 minutes. This achievement was achieved from July 20 to 22, 1936 on the occasion of a non-stop flight from Moscow to Udd Island (9,374 km). In the same year Baidukov became a member of the CPSU . From June 18 to 20, 1937, the crew of the ANT-25 managed a flight over the North Pole to Portland in the USA with a length of 9130 km. For this, Baidukov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on July 24th . Also in 1937, together with Kastanajew, Baidukov set two payload records in a DB-2A with 5000 kg over 1000 and 2000 km respectively.
Baidukov became the commander of an air regiment in the Soviet-Finnish War in 1939/40 and remained loyal to the military for the next few years. After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War , in November 1941, he became deputy and shortly afterwards commander of the 31st Air Division, then the 211th Air Division. Baidukov later took over the 212th attack aircraft division. In December 1943 he became commander of the 4th Attack Air Corps. After the end of the war, he held a leading position in the civil air fleet from 1947 to 1949 and then studied at the General Staff Academy , which he graduated in 1951. In 1952 he began his work in the Ministry of Defense . In 1961 he became Colonel General of the Soviet Air Force .
He received the Order of Lenin twice for his achievements . He has authored several books, all of which are about his long-haul flights. The Baidukow Nunatak in Antarctica is named after him.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Vodopjanow: Der Flieger Tschkalow. German Military Publishing House , Berlin 1963, p. 85 ff.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Baidukov, Georgi Filippowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Байдуков, Георгий Филиппович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet pilot and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taryschta , Tomsk Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1994 |
| Place of death | Moscow |