Ageev, Pyotr Grigorievich

Pyotr Ageyev was born on November 22 ( December 5 ), 1913 in the village of Chirukhina (Trusilova) of the Ptichensky volost of the Chelyabinsk district of the Orenburg province (now the center of the Trusilov village council of the Shumikhinsky district of the Kurgan region ) in a peasant family. Russian

He graduated from the 7th grade of the Shumikhinsky school.

In 1931, on a Komsomol trip, he was sent to the 3rd joint school of pilots and aircraft engineers of the civil air fleet in the city of Balashov . In 1933, she graduated brilliantly and was appointed an instructor pilot, and a year later - the head of an air squad. As a talented pilot, an excellent organizer in 1937 was promoted to work in the city of Tula , to the post of flight director, and in early 1940 he was transferred to work at the Chkalov Central Aero Club in Moscow . In 1940, at his own request, he was sent to study at a military school of fighter pilots. Since 1940 in the Red Army . He graduated from the Astafev Military Aviation School. He served as a flight instructor, then as a flight commander at the Krasnodar Military Aviation School . Here I met the beginning of World War II.

Only in 1942, after repeated requests and statements, he was enlisted as a flight commander in the 182nd fighter aviation regiment of the 105th fighter air defense division of the country's air defense . On July 14, 1942, Senior Lieutenant Ageev P.G., returning to the airfield after a group battle taking place over the city of Rostov-on-Don , discovered an enemy bomber He-111 . Since the ammunition after the air battle ended, the pilot went to ram. He landed at his airfield.

For the first time in the division, he began to use the tactics of a hunter-pilot, a pilot flying out to freely search for the enemy, and his attacks from great heights opened up new possibilities in destroying the enemy. In the first such flight “on a hunt”, Ageev shot down a Me-110 , which photographed our positions, with a sudden attack. September 7, 1942 entered the battle with four Me-109 . He was seriously injured, but did not leave the battle. He shot down one Messerschmitt, another forced to land on a Soviet airfield.

By the beginning of 1943, Senior Lieutenant Ageev made 160 successful sorties on LaGG-3 , Yak-1 , Yak-7b aircraft . In air battles he personally shot down 6 and as part of the group - one enemy aircraft.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 14, 1943, for the exemplary performance of command missions on the front of the struggle against Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown to them, Senior Lieutenant Ageev Pyotr Grigoryevich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal ”(No. 809). At the time of the presentation for the award P. G. Ageev was non-partisan.

In an air battle on the outskirts of the city of Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz ), he was seriously wounded in the arm, but did not leave the battle. He shot down an enemy fighter and left the plane by parachute .

This was the last air battle of Senior Lieutenant Ageev. After a serious wound, he was in the hospital for a long time, lost his right arm. Despite the injury, he returned to duty. He was a senior assistant to the head of the combat training department of the 1st Air Fighter Air Defense Army of the country. Continued to fly the Po-2 .

After the war, he worked in the Central Aero Club named after V.P. Chkalov in Moscow. He was killed by bandits on the train " Balashov - Moscow " on August 22, 1947. How unidentified was buried in Penza .

• Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union No. 809, February 14, 1943 ^[2]
• Order of Lenin , February 14, 1943
• Medals

• In memory of Peter Ageev, one of the streets of the town of Shumikha in the Kurgan region bears his name.
• In memory of Peter Ageev, one of the streets of the city of Balashov, Saratov region, bears his name.

• 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.

Ageev, Pyotr Grigorievich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". (Retrieved August 18, 2011)