Stepan Akimowitsch Krassowski

Stepan Krasovsky Akimowitsch ( Russian Степан Акимович Красовский ; born August 8 ^{. Jul} / 20th August  1897 ^greg. In Gluchi, Location Mogilowsk; † 21st April 1983 in Moscow ) was a Soviet Marshal of the flyer (1959) and Hero of the Soviet Union ( May 29, 1945).

Life

During the First World War he was in charge of the radio station of an air corps on the western front with the rank of non-commissioned officer . After the October Revolution he fought with the Red Guards and the Red Army in the civil war . There he was first an aircraft mechanic, then news chief of the 33rd aviation division on the Eastern Front, and from autumn 1919 commissioner of the aviation divisions of the 4th and 11th Army. After the civil war, he was the commander of various air brigades, corps and bases. In 1936 he graduated from the N. Je Shukowski Military Engineering Academy. In the winter war against Finland he was chief of the Murmansk Air Brigade, then deputy chief and, from June 1940, chief of the air forces in the North Caucasian military district. During the Second World War he was in charge of the aviation forces of the 56th Army, then the Brjansk Front , from 1942 the 17th Air Army and from 1943 the 2nd Air Army. After the war, he headed the air armies of the Far Eastern, Moscow, North Caucasian and Belarusian military districts. In 1956 he became head of the Air Force Military Academy "JA Gagarin" . In 1968 he was transferred to the Inspector-Advisor Group in the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Defense.

He received 6 orders of Lenin and 4 orders of the Red Banner . He wrote the book "Shisn w Awiatzi" (Moscow 1976).

literature

• Wilfried Copenhagen : Lexicon Soviet Aviation . Berlin 1986, p. 134.