Ivan Timofeevich Spirin

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Ivan Timofeyevich Spirin ( Russian Иван Тимофеевич Спирин * July 28 . Jul / 9. August  1898 greg. In Kolomna , † 4. November 1960 in Moscow ) was a Russian pilot and university teachers .

Life

Spirin grew up in the village of Nizhneje Choroschowo near Kolomna. After attending school for three years, he worked as an unskilled worker in the Golutwin station on the Ryazan –Moscow Railway .

After the October Revolution , Spirin was drafted into the Red Army in 1918 and took part in the fighting against the White Armies of Konstantin Mamontov and Anton Denikin in the Russian Civil War. From November 1919 he served in the second division of Sikorsky Ilya Muromets - Bomber - season in which he in 1920 Aerologe was.

In 1924 Spirin graduated from the flight school in Moscow. In 1925 he made his first instrument flight from Moscow to Kolomna. In 1927 he took part in a major European flight. In 1929 he was looking for Americans who had had an accident in the Arctic . In 1930 he completed his studies at the Higher Military Aviation School Katscha in Sevastopol . In September 1930 he took part on a Polikarpow R-5 in the large group flight Moscow-Sevastopol- Ankara - Tbilisi - Tehran - Termiz - Kabul - Tashkent - Orenburg- Moscow (61.5 flight hours, 10,500  km ). From September 12 to 15, 1934, the pilot Mikhail Gromov , the flight engineer Alexander I. Filin and Spirin, as navigators on a Tupolev ANT-25 , undertook the long-distance record flight Moscow- Kharkov- Moscow (12,411 km, 75 flight hours) to set the French record Bossutreau and Rossi from 1932 over 10,601 km on a Blériot .

In January 1935, Spirin became Chief Navigator of the Red Army Air Force and Chief of the 4th Subdivision of the 1st Department of the Red Army Air Force Administration. In February 1936 he became commander and military commissioner in the Research Institute of the Air Forces of the Red Army and then in December expedition chief navigator. As KomBrig in 1937 he was the chief navigator of the first North Pole expedition with the establishment of the North Pole 1 polar station under the direction of Ivan Papanin .

In September 1938 Spirin became head of the aeronautical navigation faculty of the Military Academy for Air Force Engineers “Prof. NJ Zhukovsky ” . He became a doctor of geographic scientists and a professor .

In the Soviet-Finnish War 1939–1940 , Spirin commanded the long-distance air force with 140 aircraft. In September 1940 he became head of the 2nd Ivanovo Navigator College . From the beginning of the German-Soviet War , he commanded the long-distance air force with 200 aircraft to defend Moscow and bomb the enemy hinterland. In March 1942 he became head of the officers' college for night flight crews for long-distance pilots. Around 1,000 crews (4,000 people) were trained under his leadership during the war. In October 1944 he became the commander of the new 9th Guards Bombing Corps.

After the war Spirin was head of the Ivanovo Navigator School until April 1948. He then taught at the Voroshilov Military Academy in Moscow. In May 1949 he became head of the special department (from February 1950 special faculty) of the military academy for engineers of the air force “Prof. NJ Zhukovsky ”and in November 1952 Vice Head of the Navigator Faculty of the Academy. On July 1, 1955, he was given leave of absence. He lived in Moscow, was a delegate at the XVIII. Elected Congress of the CPSU and was a member of the Moscow Soviet . 1957-1960 he was head of the military chair of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology . 1958-1961 he set up with Ivan Petrow for students flight courses with the planes Lissunow Li-2 , Jakowlew Jak-12 , Jak-18 and gliders .

Spirin reached about 9000 flight hours and survived 5 air accidents. He was buried in the Vvedenskoye cemetery . Spirin's bust was placed in Kolomna in Memorialny Park. Streets in Kolomna, Moscow and Cahul bear Spirin's name.

Honors

Works

  • The conquest of the North Pole. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1955 (Russian: Покорение Северного Полюса. Translated by Alexander Böltz).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Landeshelden: Спирин Иван Тимофеевич (accessed on July 31, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Военное обозрение: Иван Тимофеевич Спирин. Полёт сквозь эпоху (К 120-летию со дня рождения Ивана Тимофеевича Спирина) (accessed July 31, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b c Коллектив авторов: Великая Отечественная: Комкоры. Военный биографический словарь. Т.  2 . Жуковский: Кучково поле, Moscow 2006, ISBN 5-901679-08-3 , p. 420-421 .
  4. ↑ Историческая справка (accessed July 30, 2019).
  5. ↑ Василий Алексеевич Шебалдов: ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ ВЕТЕРАНА ВОЕННОЙ КАФЕДРЫ (accessed July 19, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Spirin, Ivan Timofeevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Спирин, Иван Тимофеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pilot and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolomna
DATE OF DEATH November 4th 1960
Place of death Moscow