Mikhail Vladimirovich Schidlowski

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Mikhail Vladimirovich Schidlowski

Mikhail Vladimirovich Schidlowski ( Russian Михаил Владимирович Шидловский * July 20 . Jul / 1. August  1856 greg. , † 14. January 1921 ) was a Russian naval officer, businessman and aviator commander.

Life

Schidlowski was the son of a noble landowner in the Voronezh Governorate and descendant of Major General Fyodor Vladimirovich Schidlowski , who lost his rights and property in the conflict with Alexander Danilowitsch Menshikov . Schidlowski graduated from the St. Petersburg Marine Cadet Corps and the St. Petersburg Military Law Academy . He then entered the service of the Treasury and became a member of the State Council . In 1900 he was appointed to the Real Council of State (4th class ).

Schidlowski became chairman of the board of the Russian-Baltic Wagon Factory (RBWS) in Riga . After the Russian-Japanese war , the number of railroad car orders decreased, he initiated the production of automobiles under the direction of Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Bondarew , for which a new department for the production of the Russo-Balt passenger car was founded in 1908 .

In 1912 Schidlowski opened a branch factory in St. Petersburg with the chief engineer Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky , in which the development of the heavy transport aircraft Ilya Muromets began in 1913 . Since Schidlowski stopped the use of aircraft in the war for not very efficient, he suggested in a report, following the model of the ship squadron of naval aircraft in a squadron together. Thereupon an order was given to set up a squadron with 10 combat aircraft and 2 training aircraft of the type Ilya Muromets . After the beginning of the First World War , Schidlowski was drafted into active military service in December 1914 and appointed commander of the Ilya Muromets squadron with the rank of major general. During the first deployment in February 1915, the squadron from Jablonna in Poland attacked a military base in East Prussia . By the October Revolution , the squadron flew more than 400 attacks on Germany and the Baltic States . In 1915 he directed the construction of the first Russian aircraft engine , whereupon he received the Order of St. Vladimir II Class.

After the February Revolution of 1917 , Schidlowski was removed from his post in March 1917 due to incompetence and recalled to Petrograd , whereupon he was dismissed from military service in June 1917. After the October Revolution, he was arrested by the Cheka for espionage in 1919 and shot in 1921.

In 1999, a Schidlowski monument was erected in Moscow . In 2014 the Tupolev Tu-22M RF-94154 was named Michail Schidlowski.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Александр Гурин: Михаил Шидловский (accessed May 14, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b c Морозов В. П .: Михаил Шидловский - трагическая судьба основателя отечественного авиапрома (accessed May 14, 2018).
  3. ↑ Катышев Г. И., Михеев В. Р .: Крылья Сикорского . Воениздат, Moscow 1992.
  4. ↑ Егоров Н. Д .: Русский генералитет в годы революции и гражданской войны (материалы к биографическому справоч) (accessed on May 14, 2018).
  5. ↑ a b Союз ветеранов Дальней авиации: ШИДЛОВСКИЙ Михаил Владимирович (accessed May 14, 2018).
  6. ↑ Союз ветеранов Дальней авиации: Ходатайство о присвоении ракетоносцу Ту-22М3 почёткийхо именаи " accessed on 14 May " (2018) Мивило ( Миливсло) Милоо on May 14, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schidlowski, Michail Wladimirowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шидловский, Михаил Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian naval officer, entrepreneur and air commander
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1856
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1921