Sutyagin, Nikolai Vasilievich

Born in the village of Smagino in a peasant family. Russian Parents - Vasily Alekseevich and Elena Vasilievna. The family had five children.

In 1929 he entered elementary school. In 1934, at the age of 11, he was sent to Gorky to his grandmother. In 1938, he graduated from the 8th grade of School No. 16. In 1940 he graduated from the Gorky Aero Club named after P.I. Baranov.

In March 1941 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army . He graduated from the Chernigov Military Aviation Pilot School in August 1942 (the school at that time operated in evacuation in the Krasnovodsk Region of the Turkmen SSR ). In October 1942, Sergeant N.V. Sutyagin was assigned to the 582nd Fighter Aviation Regiment ( 249th Fighter Aviation Division , 9th Air Army , Far Eastern Front ), which was stationed at Vozdvizhenka airfield in the Primorsky Territory . A month later he was transferred to the 5th fighter aviation regiment of the same division, which was located in the village of Kamen-Rybolov . He flew on an I-16 fighter, became a flight commander , then mastered the Yak-3 , Yak-7 B and Yak-9 fighters. Participation in hostilities on the fronts of World War II did not take. Received the officer rank in 1943 . In August-September 1945 he participated in the Soviet-Japanese war along with the regiment. As part of the 9th Air Army of the 1st Far Eastern Front, he fought in the Manchurian strategic offensive operation , liberating Manchuria and Korea from the Japanese invaders. He completed 13 sorties, including 3 on reconnaissance of enemy airfields ^[1] , but had no meetings in the air with the enemy. Member of the CPSU since 1946 .

After the war he continued to serve in the same regiment. In April 1947, the regiment was disbanded and Sutyagin was transferred to the 17th Fighter Aviation Regiment ( 190th Fighter Aviation Division , 2nd Combined Aviation Corps , 9th Air Army, Primorsky Military District ). On October 4, 1950, the 17th IAP became part of the 303rd Fighter Aviation Division ( 54th Air Army , Far Eastern Military District ), where it mastered the Yak-17 and MiG-15 fighter jets .

In April 1951, the regiment was transferred to Mukden ( China ) to prepare for participation in the Korean War . He flew on MiG-15 and MiG-15bis fighter jets . First, he fought in Korea as deputy commander and at the same time as navigator of the squadron, then as an assistant regiment commander for aerial combat tactics and aerial shooting. During participation in the hostilities from June 17, 1951 to February 2, 1952, he made 149 sorties, conducted 66 air battles, and personally shot down 22 aircraft. The most effective jet fighter aircraft in the world. Itself has never been hit or wounded.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on October 10, 1951, N. V. Sutyagin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union . But in less than a year of the war, the pilot was presented with the orders of Lenin , the Red Banner , the Red Star , and on January 5, 1952, the regiment commander G.I. Pulov presented Sutyagin with the rank of twice Hero of the Soviet Union, but Sutyagin was not awarded any of these awards .

After returning to the USSR in the summer of 1952 he was sent to study. In 1956 he graduated from the Air Force Academy . From October 1956, he was deputy flight commander of the 826th training fighter aviation regiment (the regiment operated as part of 2 Central courses for the improvement of flight personnel in Taganrog ), and from July 11, 1958, it was the commander of this regiment. Since May 1960 - commander of the 963rd training fighter aviation regiment, which was part of the Yeisk Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots . From October 1961 to July 1962 - deputy head of the Kachinsky Higher Military Aviation School named after A.F. Myasnikov for flight training, then studied at the Academy.

In 1964 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR . Since September 1964 - Head of the Kharkiv Higher Aviation School for Pilots named after S. I. Gritsevets . Since May 1968 - Deputy Commander for combat training and military schools - a member of the Military Council of the 69th Air Army of the Kiev Military District . In October 1970, he was placed at the disposal of the 10th Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR and was appointed Chief Military Advisor for Aviation in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam through his line. He rendered great assistance to Vietnamese aviation in organizing the fight against US aviation in the Vietnam War . Since October 1971 - Deputy Commander for Air Defense and a member of the Military Council of the 16th Air Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (Army Headquarters in Wünsdorf ). During his service in aviation, he mastered more than 20 types of aircraft and Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters . In August 1978, Major General Sutyagin resigned.

He lived in Kiev . He worked as the chief of staff of the civil defense research institute of hydraulic engineering and land reclamation .

He died on November 12, 1986. He was buried at the Baykovsky cemetery in Kiev.

• Sergeant (08.28.1942)
• Junior Lieutenant (04.24.1943)
• Lieutenant (10.30.1944)
• Senior Lieutenant (04/28/1948)
• captain (6/10/1951)
• Major (4.01.1952)
• Lieutenant Colonel (05/28/1956)
• Colonel (09/03/1960)
• Major General of Aviation (10.25.1967)

Soviet:

• Gold Star medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union (10/10/1951);
• Order of Lenin (10/10/1951);
• Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (03/11/1985);
• three orders of the Red Star (08/26/1945, 12/30/1956, 05/04/1972);
• Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3 degrees (02.22.1977);
• medal "For Military Merit" (05/17/1950);
• other medals.

Foreign :

• military order "For Merit to the People and the Fatherland" ( GDR );
• Order of Merit in the War of Liberation ( DRV );
• Sino-Soviet Friendship Medal ( PRC );
• other awards.

Honorary title:

• Honored Military Pilot of the USSR (08/17/1971).

• In the native village of Smagino, the Museum of the Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Sutyagin was created - a branch of the Buturlinsky regional museum of local lore (2013).
• On the building of the former Gorky Aero Club in Nizhny Novgorod, a memorial plaque in honor of N. V. Sutyagin (2014) ^[3]
• A memorial tablet (2004) is installed on the house in which N.V. Sutyagin was born in the village of Smagino, a street is named after him in the village.

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