Pyotr Ionowitsch Baranov
Pyotr Ionowitsch Baranov ( Russian Пётр Ионович Баранов ; born September 10, jul. / 22. September 1892 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 5. September 1933 ) was a Soviet officer and politician, last commander of the Soviet Air Forces (1924-1931) .
Life
Baranov joined the Communist Party in St. Petersburg in 1912, but was forced to leave the city a year later due to his political activities and spent the next two years in various cities in Russia. In 1915 he was drafted into the army , the following year he was arrested for agitation among members of the army and sentenced to eight years of forced labor with simultaneous banishment . After the February Revolution of 1917 he returned from this and was deployed on the Romanian front. In 1918 he was given the command of the Donetsk Army, which was deployed in Donbass against German-Austrian intervention troops and the White Cossacks . Until the end of the Russian Civil War , he held various management positions. In August 1923 he was appointed Deputy Chief of the Air Force of the Soviet Union and in December 1924 he assumed the supreme command, which he held until July 1931. During his leadership, the air forces started working with the German Reichswehr . Among other things, a joint, secret flying school and testing facility was set up in Lipetsk . In addition to this position, Baranov was a member of the Revolutionary War Council from 1925 to 1931 , and then of the Supreme Soviet . In January 1932, Baranov was appointed head of the head office of the aircraft industry while at the same time filling the deputy post at the People's Commissar for Heavy Industry, which also included responsibility for aircraft production.
Baranov died in a plane crash in 1933. His urn was buried at the necropolis on the Kremlin wall .
Awards
He was the bearer of the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner .
Honors
The Russian research institute Central Institute for Aircraft Engines was given the nickname “P. I. Baranow “awarded.
literature
- Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation . Elbe-Dnjepr, Klitzschen 2007, ISBN 978-3-933395-90-0 , p. 25 .
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Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Baranov, Pyotr Ionowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baranow, PI; Баранов, Пётр Ионович (Russian); Баранов, П. И .; Baranov, Petr Ionovich (English); Baranov, Petr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet officer and politician, most recently Commander in Chief of the Air Force of the Soviet Union (1924–1931) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1933 |