Kapustin, Boris Vladislavovich

In the army - since 1951 , in 1954 he graduated from the Kirovobad Military Aviation School of Pilots named after Khuslyanova . Member of the CPSU since 1959 .

He served as senior pilot of the 668th Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 132nd Bomber Aviation Division of the 24th Air Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany , which was stationed at the Finov airfield .

On April 6, 1966, the pilot performed a planned flight on a Yak-28 jet aircraft along with navigator Yu. N. Yanov . At an altitude of 4000 meters, both engines unexpectedly failed as a result of surging , and the aircraft began to lose altitude. In an effort to prevent the uncontrolled aircraft from falling into the residential neighborhoods of West Berlin , Kapustin decided not to eject himself, and ordered Yanov to leave the car; however, he, realizing that the violation of the aerodynamics of the aircraft as a result of the destruction of his flashlight worsen the already difficult situation, refused to comply with the order. Kapustin managed to get the car to a deserted place - the plane crashed into Lake Stessensee . In agreement with NATO representatives , the raising of the remains of the aircraft and the bodies of the dead was carried out by English sappers, since the place of the crash was in the territory controlled by NATO. In the process of such a mourning event, NATO specialists from far away made fun of our military ^[1] .

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 10, 1966, Kapustin and Yanov were awarded the Order of the Red Banner , posthumously.

He was buried in the city of Rostov-on-Don at the Bratskoye cemetery . Kapustin’s house was left by his wife Galina Andreevna and son Valery.

• The name of Boris Vladislavovich Kapustin in Rostov-on-Don is the street of the Voroshilovsky district of the city ​​and secondary school No. 51 (now Lyceum No. 51), in which the pilot himself studied. A memorial plaque is installed on the lyceum building.
• The song “The Great Sky ” was written about the feat (music by O. Feltsman , lyrics by R. Rozhdestvensky , Spanish Edith Piekha ) and a cartoon of the same name was created.
• a team was named after Kapustin at the Flygtsoygverft aircraft repair plant (GDR, Dresden) ^[2] .
• in the museum at the Finov airfield , where Kapustin flew, a memorial dedicated to the heroic deed of a pilot was erected ^[3] .
• a memorial plaque at the Finov airfield in 2009 was moved to a military burial ground in Westend ^[4] .
• The portrait of Boris Vladislavovich Kapustin was painted by a West Berlin artist one night after a perfect feat. The portrait is stored in school number 51 named. Kapustin (now Lyceum No. 51), Rostov-on-Don ^[5] .

• Commemorative plaque
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  At the lake Stössensee

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  In Rostov-on-Don (sculptor Boris Nikolaevich Kondakov)

• Filippov S.K. 30 seconds before immortality // Never fades. - Krasnodar: Periodicals of the Kuban, 2004. - S. 297-318. - 320 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-331-00037-1 .

• Vladislav Shurygin. “Let us perish, but we will save the city! ...” // Homeland . - 2016. - No. 416 (4).
• Eva Merkacheva. How to share the "huge sky" // Moskovsky Komsomolets : newspaper. - 2016. - No. 27073 (April 6).

• Huge Sky Club - site of the Urupsky search club Huge Sky.
• The feat of Soviet pilots - an article on the website of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
• The feat of Yuri Yanov and Boris Kapustin - an article on the support site for the project to preserve and restore the Moninsky Yak-28L aircraft “44 red”.
• Great guys in a great country - an article on the 1988 graduation website of the GSVG school No. 79 and the Eberswalde-Finov garrison.
• Biography of Kapustin B.V.