Golubev, Vasily Fedorovich

Born November 16, 1912 in the village of Kamenka (now the Volkhov district of the Leningrad region ). From a peasant large family. He graduated from 3 classes of an elementary school in the village of Ivanovsky Ostrov , 7 classes at a school in Staraya Ladoga in 1928. In the same year he joined the Komsomol. Back in the early 1920s, I first saw an airplane and met pilots , after which I “fell ill” with aviation. Since 1928 he worked in his father's peasant farm, in 1930 he moved to Syasstroy and got a job at Syasstroy pulp and paper mill , worked as a mechanic, electrician, driver, press operator. At the plant he graduated from a two-year evening technical school and driver courses. Since 1932 he worked as the head of the electric workshop at the Volkhov Aluminum Plant .

From November 1933 to October 1935 he served in the Red Army , a junior commander of an anti-aircraft artillery battery in the city of Pushkin ( Leningrad Military District ). After completing the service, he returned to work at Syasstroy Pulp and Paper Mill , and at the same time he graduated from the Duderhof Flight-Glider School of Osoaviahim ( Leningrad Region ). He worked as a senior instructor, then as the head of the Volkhov district glider club. In 1938 he graduated from the Osoaviahim Higher Glider School in the village of Koktebel in the Crimea . He worked as an instructor in the flying club of Mineralnye Vody . ^[one]

In October 1939, he was drafted into the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Fleet and sent to the Naval Aviation School. JV Stalin in the city of Yeysk . And thanks to his success in gliding sports and his excellent knowledge of the material, he completed exam entrance flights so successfully that he was accepted immediately to the third year of school. In August 1940 he graduated from college and was sent to the 13th separate fighter aviation squadron of the 61st fighter aviation brigade of the Baltic Fleet Air Force. There he served as a pilot and senior pilot (from August to November 1940), the head of the paratrooper service (from November 1940 to June 1941). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1941.

A veteran of the Great Patriotic War from the first day, the first combat mission took place on June 22, 1941. For almost the entire first year of the war, the squadron conducted military operations on the land front, participating in the Leningrad defensive operation and in the defense of Leningrad . By August, had more than 100 sorties. In October-November 1941, among six pilots, Golubev was seconded to the Hanko Peninsula for air defense of his fleet garrison defending far behind enemy lines and against Finnish and German air raids. On his return from Hanko, he participated in the air defense of Kronstadt , in November 1941 he was appointed flight commander . In a battle on August 13, 1941, he was shot down and seriously wounded, and in early October he fell on a damaged plane to Lake Ladoga , swam several kilometers in ice-cold water to the coast. Until the beginning of 1943, he fought on the I-16 fighter.

In February 1941 he was transferred to the 13th Fighter Aviation Regiment (in the same month the regiment was transformed into the 4th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Baltic Fleet Air Force. As part of this regiment, the whole war went on until the last day: unit commander, from March 1942 - squadron commander, since March 1943 - assistant regiment commander for flight training and aerial combat, and regiment commander since August 1943. Vasily Golubev is one of the most successful fighter pilots of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet.

He brought to life his own tactical ideas. On March 12, 1942, alone on an I-16 plane, he fought against a pair of German Messerschmitt Bf.109 fighters, both Germans were shot down in a short battle.

By June 1942, the commander of the guard squadron , Captain V.F. Golubev, completed 339 sorties, conducted 61 air battles, shot down 5 enemy planes in person and 16 in the group (the award list refers to 4 personal and 23 group victories). ^[2]

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 23, 1942, the squadron commander of the 4th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Guard Captain Golubev Vasily Fedorovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 722).

At the beginning of 1943, the regiment began to receive new La-5 aircraft, and in 1944 it was re-equipped with the latest La-7 fighters. Since the end of 1944, the regiment was based in Finland . The last sortie was on May 8, 1945.

In total, during the war, Vasily Golubev made 589 sorties, conducted 133 air battles, shot down 17 enemy aircraft personally and 15 in the group ^[3] (there is a large scatter in the literature on the number of his victories: 39 personal and 12 group victories are claimed, about 16 personal and 39 group ^[4] , about 16 personal and 23 group ^[5] , about 19 personal and 20 group, about 27 personal and 12 group victories, etc.).

After the war, he continued his service in naval aviation . From March 1946 to December 1948 - commander of the 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Baltic Fleet Air Force. In 1951 he graduated from the Aviation Department of the Naval Academy named after K. E. Voroshilov . Since December 1951 - commander of the 122nd Fighter Aviation Division of the Air Force of the Northern Fleet . Major General Aviation (3.8.1953). Since January 1957 - Deputy Commander of the Air Force of the Black Sea Fleet for Air Defense. He mastered a number of jet engines .

In 1960 he was transferred from the Air Force of the USSR Navy to the Air Defense Forces of the country , in June 1960 he was appointed first deputy commander of the 14th separate air defense army . Since October 1966 - Inspector General of the Air Defense Inspectorate for the Air Force of the States Parties to the Warsaw Treaty of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces of the country. From August 1968 to September 1970 - senior military adviser to the commander of the air defense of the United Arab Republic , had a permanent location in Egypt ^[6] . From January 1971 to January 1975, he was a senior lecturer at the Air Defense Department of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces named after K.E. Voroshilov .

Since June 1975, Lieutenant General V.F. Golubev - in stock.

He lived in Moscow. He was engaged in a lot of literary work (he published 11 books and major printed works) and public work.

He died on April 17, 2001. He was buried in Moscow at the Vvedensky cemetery (plot 1).

Awards of the USSR and Russia

• The Gold Star Medal No. 722 of the Hero of the Soviet Union (10.23.1942);
• Order of Lenin (03.16.1942, 10.23.1942);
• seven orders of the Red Banner (08/14/1941, 03/14/1944, 07/19/1945, 12/30/1956, 04/29/1957, 02/22/1968, 08/26/1970);
• two orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (01/19/1943, 04/06/1985);
• two orders of the Red Star (02/26/1953, 02/22/1955);
• Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree (04/30/1975).
• Medals, including:
  • Zhukov medal ;
  • medal "For Military Merit" (1947);
  • “For military valor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ” ;
  • medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" ;
  • medal “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
  • anniversary medal “Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
  • anniversary medal “Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
  • anniversary medal “Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
  • Medal “50th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
  • anniversary medal "300 years of the Russian fleet" ;
  • medal “In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow” ;
  • medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ;
  • anniversary medal "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy" ;
  • anniversary medal "40 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ;
  • anniversary medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ;
  • anniversary medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ;
  • anniversary medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ;
  • medal “In memory of the 250th anniversary of Leningrad” .

Foreign Awards

• Order of the British Empire 4th degree ( Great Britain ) (1943);
• Medal of Military Merit ( Egypt ) (1970).

Honorary Citizen

Honorary citizen of the village Syasstroy Volkhov district of the Leningrad region.

• Golubev V.F. School of War. - M.: Military Publishing House, 1947. - 72 p.
• Golubev V.F. Second wind. - M .: Soviet Russia, 1984. - 253 p.
• Golubev V.F. Wings are gaining strength in battle . - 2nd ed., Rev. and add. - L .: Lenizdat, 1984. - 253 p.
• Golubev V.F. Ahead of the Commissioner . - M .: Politizdat, 1988 .-- 111 p.
• Golubev V.F. In the name of Leningrad . - M .: FAIR-PRESS, 2000 .-- 512 p. - 8000 copies. - ISBN 5-8183-0159-1 .
• Golubev V.F. Heroes among us. - M .: Agency "Fair", 1995. - 92 p. - ISBN 5-88641-022-8 .
• Golubev V.F. Marine pilots // Neva. - 1982. - No. 2. - S.149-156.
• Golubev V.F. Aviation - the striking force of the fleet // In the collection "Baltic Sailors on the Defense of the Motherland 1941-1945." - M., 1986. - P.37-54.

• Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1987.- T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN comp., Reg. RCP No. 87-95382.
• Lurie V.M. Admirals and generals of the Navy of the USSR (1946-1960). - M .: Kuchkovo field, 2007 .-- 672 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9950-0009-9 .
• Burov A.V. Your heroes, Leningrad. 2nd ed., Ext. - Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1970 .-- 639 p. - S. 54–56.
• Heroes of the war (Comp. A. Pyakhklimyagi). - Tallinn, 1984. - P.85–87.
• Kalinichenko A.F. Air sniper. - M.: DOSAAF USSR, 1987.
• Kalinichenko A.F. Heroes of the sky. - Kaliningrad: Book publishing house, 1982. - 255 p. - S.58–86.
• Kornyukhin GV. Air war over the USSR, 1941. - Moscow: Veche, 2014 .-- 381 p. - ISBN 978-5-4444-0711-0 .
• Wings of the Baltic. Articles and memoirs (Comp. V.F. Golubev, A.F. Kalinichenko). - Kaliningrad: Book Publishing House, 1979. - 287 p.
• Tsapov I.I., Konev V.N., Myasnikov Yu.A. Guardsmen of the Baltic winged. - M.: Delta NB LLC, 2006. - 430 p. - ISBN 5-900824-09-8 .

• List of aces pilots of World War II .

• Golubev, Vasily Fedorovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• V. F. Golubev on the site "Soviet aces"
• V. F. Golubev on the site "Red Falcons" .
• V.F. Golubev on RusJet.Ru .
• V. F. Golubev on the site "Aviators of the Second World War" .
• V.F. Golubev on the website of the Virtual Museum 13 OKIAE KBF Kingisepp school number 3 .
• V. F. Golubev on the site "Flot.com" .