Yevgeny Yakovlevich Savitsky

Yevgeny Yakovlevich Savitsky ( Russian Евгений Яковлевич Савицкий ; born December 11 ^{. Jul} / 24. December  1910 ^greg. In Novorossiysk , † 6. April 1990 in Moscow ) was a Soviet fighter pilot and Marshal of the flyer . He was the father of the cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya .

Life

Yevgeny Savitsky took an early interest in aviation and joined an aviation club in his youth. In 1929 he was drafted into the army and attended a military aviation school, which he graduated in 1932. He then continued his military career as a fighter pilot and made it to chain leader in the next few years . From 1937 Savitski, promoted to lieutenant, commanded a fighter pilot division and a little later a regiment. At the beginning of the war in 1941 he led a fighter pilot division in the Far East as a major , but was summoned to the Western Front in the winter of the same year and deployed as a lieutenant colonel in the defense of Moscow . In April / May 1942 Zavitsky was appointed deputy commander of the air force within the 25th Army and then deployed in the Voronezh and Stalingrad area. From May to November he commanded the 205th IAD (Fighter Pilot Division), subsequently briefly a pilot group within the 17th Army.

In December 1942, Sawizki became commander of the 3rd Fighter Corps, which he led until the end of the war. The unit took part in the fighting on the Kuban , Donbass and in the Crimea and was involved in the liberation of Belarus and Poland and in the Berlin operation . As the commander of the 3rd IAK, Sawizki flew 107 missions and shot down 15 aircraft. In total, he undertook 216 combat flights during the war, in which he achieved 22 aerial victories, two more were awarded to him as group kills. In 1943 he was promoted to major general. On May 11, 1944, Savitsky was honored as a Hero of the Soviet Union , and he received the medal a second time on June 2, 1945 with the rank of lieutenant general.

After the end of the war, Savitsky remained active as a corps commander, flew the first Soviet jet fighters and formed the first aerobatic formation equipped with this new type of propulsion in the USSR. He also worked as a trainer. In 1955 he graduated from the General Staff Academy and was appointed to the staff of the Air Force . From 1966 he was Deputy Commander in Chief of Air Defense and in 1980 he was appointed to the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Defense. In the course of his career, Savitsky received not only the “Hero of the Soviet Union” but also other high honors - including the Order of Lenin three times and the Order of the Red Banner five times - he was awarded the title of “Honored Military Pilot of the USSR” in 1965 and was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1961 to 1966 . He had been a party member since 1931. He died in Moscow in 1990.

The asteroid (4303) Savitskij , discovered on September 25, 1973, was named after him in 1993.

literature

• Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation. Elbe – Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 (in libraries also under ISBN 978-3-933395-90-9 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 22501