Eremin, Boris Nikolaevich

Born March 6, 1913 in the city of Saratov in a working class family. Russian He graduated from 9 classes. He worked as a turner at the Saratov Machine-Building Plant , the Moscow plant " Hammer and Sickle ".

Service in the Red Army before World War II

In the Red Army since 1931 . In 1939 he graduated from the Chita , and in 1940 - the Kachinsky Red Banner Military Aviation Pilot School named after A.F. Myasnikov . Member of the battles with Japanese militarists near Lake Hassan in 1938 .

World War II

At the front - since June 1941 . During the Great Patriotic War, Eremin in battles near Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, in Kharkov , Stalingrad , Rostov-on-Don, in the Crimea , Poland , Romania , Yugoslavia, Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia, Austria , Germany.

The beginning of the war

In March 1942 near Kharkov , he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the heroic air battle “7 against 25” as the commander of an air squadron.

Battle of Stalingrad

He took part in the Battle of Stalingrad from beginning to end. Until September 1942 he was commander of a fighter squadron of the 8th Air Army of the Stalingrad Front . Since September 1942 - Deputy Commander of the Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 8th Air Army, a group of "aces." Since November 1942 - commander of the 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 8th Air Army. For participation in the Battle of Stalingrad he was awarded the second Order of the Red Banner and the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad . "

Yak-1 (1943 — summer 1944)

Boris Nikolaevich Eremin fought on two Yak-1 and Yak-3 fighters personally handed to him, built with the money of the collective farmer Ferapont Golovaty .

In December 1942 , in Saratov , the Yak-1b plane was solemnly handed over to Major Boris Yeryomin, who was at war near Stalingrad . By that time, he already had in his account 7 enemy aircraft, shot down personally and in a group with his comrades, and was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner . On board the plane was the inscription:

On this plane, Eremin reached Stalingrad to the Crimea , won more than one victory in the air, and was never shot down. After the liberation of Sevastopol, the aircraft was transferred to the local history museum of the city of Saratov , at the request of the residents of the city. Since 1991, the only surviving Yak-1b fighter aircraft has been exhibited at the Saratov State Museum of Military Glory , located in Victory Park on Sokolova Hill.

Yak-3 (summer 1944-1945)

On May 29, 1944, Major Yeryomin received a new plane at the Saratov Guard Airfield, this time the Yak-3 fighter, purchased with funds from Ferapont Golovaty . On board was the inscription:

On this plane, Eremin fought before the Victory , the last plane shot down in the sky of Czechoslovakia .

Yak-3 Eremin was stored in the museum of the Design Bureau of A. S. Yakovlev , until December 2014 was ^[1] in Santa Monica , California .

Summary

In total, during the period of World War II, it made 342 sorties , of which:

• over 100 ground attack forces of the enemy;
• 117 reconnaissance flights:
  • 102 effective aerial reconnaissance in fighter aircraft I-16 , Yak-1 ;
• spent 70 air battles:
  • shot down 23 enemy aircraft (14 of them were destroyed on two donated aircraft handed to F.P. Golovaty );
    • 8 aircraft in person;
    • 15 - in the group ^[2] .

In battles twice wounded. Twice his plane was shot down. From a burning plane parachuted .

He finished the war as lieutenant colonel , deputy commander of the 6th Guards Fighter Aviation Division .

He was introduced to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 and 1945 .

After the war

After the war, the pilot graduated:

• in 1946, advanced training courses for commanders and chiefs of staff of aviation divisions at the Air Force Academy ;
• in 1952 - the Military Academy of the General Staff .

Served:

• Advisor to the Commander of the Bulgarian Air Force ( 1948 - 1950 );
• Head of the Kachinsky Military Aviation School of Pilots ( 1952 - 1957 );
• Assistant Air Force Commander, Deputy Commander - Head of the Combat Training and Air Force Higher Education Department ( 1957 - 1959 );
• Air Force Commander of the North Caucasus Military District ( 1959 - 1962 );
• commander of the 37th Air Army and member of the military council of the Northern Group of Forces ( 1962 - 1964 );
• Air Force Commander of the Northern Group of Forces ( 1964-1965 );
• Air Force Flight Safety Chief ( 1965-1975 ).

In 1975, Lieutenant General Aviation Yeryomin resigned.

By presidential decree of May 5, 1990, "for courage and heroism shown in battles with Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War," Boris Nikolayevich Eremin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal (No. 11605).

He lived in the hero city of Moscow , where he died on April 4, 2005, at the 93rd year of his life. The Troekurovsky cemetery was buried in Moscow.

• Member of the CPSU (b) (subsequently the CPSU ) since 1937 .

Only 58 awards.

Soviet

• Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union No. 11605 ( May 5, 1990 ).
• Two Orders of Lenin :
  1. April 9, 1944 ;
  2. May 5, 1990 - with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Six Orders of the Red Banner :
  1. March 14, 1942 ;
  2. August 15, 1942 ;
  3. August 20, 1943 ;
  4. April 16, 1945 ;
  5. November 19, 1951 ;
  6. February 22, 1968 .
• Order of Suvorov 3rd degree ( December 2, 1945 ).
• Two orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree:
  1. ???;
  2. March 11, 1985 .
• Two orders of the Red Star :
  1. November 6, 1947 ;
  2. February 21, 1974 .
• Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree ( April 30, 1975 ).
• Medals:
  • medal "For the defense of Stalingrad . "

Russian

• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree.
• Order of Honor .

Foreign

• Order:
  • Bulgarian
  • Romanian
  • Czechoslovak
  • Mongolian .

Honorary titles

• Honorary Citizen of Volgograd ( January 29, 1999 );
• Honorary Citizen of Saratov ;
• Honorary Citizen of Nikopol ;

• Street in Saratov .
• A memorial plaque on the building of school number 1 in the Frunze district of Saratov, where he studied B. N. Eremin ^[4] .

• Air fighters. - M .: Military Publishing House, 1987 .
• Ready for departure. - Saratov: Volga Book Publishing House, 1987. - 127 p.

• Holovaty, Ferapont Petrovich .

• Cavaliers of the Order of Glory of three degrees: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium D. S. Sukhorukov . - M .: Military Publishing House , 2000 .-- 703 p. - 10,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-01883-9 . - S.683.

• Eremin, Boris Nikolaevich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Red falcons .
• Big biographical encyclopedia .
• Essay on The Voice of Russia .
• Virtual Kacha (inaccessible link) . The site of the Kachinsky Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots.
• About the Hero - on the Victory-60 website .