Ivan Vasilyevich Pashchenko ( February 15, 1922 , Otradnensky District , Krasnodar Territory - October 16, 2014 , Yaroslavl ) - pilot - attack aircraft of the Great Patriotic War , Hero of the Soviet Union , retired colonel.
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| Date of Birth | February 15, 1922 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | c. Piskunovskoye , Otradnensky District , Krasnodar Territory | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | October 16, 2014 (92 years old) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Yaroslavl , Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of army |  Air Force | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1940-1973 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Part | 189th Assault Aviation Division | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commanded | link of the 707th assault aviation regiment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
He was born in 1922 in the village of Gusarovskoye [1] [2] now in the Otradnensky District of the Krasnodar Territory (according to other sources - in the Malinino Farm of the Timashevsky District [3] ) in a peasant family. Later he lived with his family in Armavir .
Since childhood, dreamed of becoming a pilot. He tried to enter a military school, but was rejected due to flat feet . He graduated from two courses in the design department of the Taganrog Aviation College . At the same time he was engaged in a flying club, the first independent flight made on April 12, 1940 on the U-2 . In the Soviet Army since 1940. He graduated from the Mikhailovsky Military Aviation Pilot School in the Special Kiev District , in 1941 - the Voroshilovgrad Military Pilot School , in 1944 - the Krasnodar Military Aviation Pilot School .
On the fronts of World War II from July 1944 . He fought on the IL-2 . He participated in the Iasi-Chisinau , Budapest , Balaton and Vienna military operations. He liberated Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria. The flight commander of the 707th assault aviation regiment ( 189th assault aviation division , 17th air army , 3rd Ukrainian front ), by May 1945, lieutenant Pashchenko had completed 130 (100 successful) sorties with a combat raid of 109 hours 47 minutes, dropped 38,650 kg of bombs on enemy troops, equipment and units of resistance, conducted 4 air battles with enemy fighters, shot down two enemy aircraft ( Me-109 and FV-190 ). The plane I.V. Pashchenko was shot down 6 times, including one shot down (he got into the water in a forest flooded in a flood, pulled out his gunner Ilya Danilovich Dobrynin, bandaged and dragged him out of the forest until he met the Yugoslav partisans who sent them to the hospital ) The title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the exemplary performance of the combat missions of command on the front of the struggle against Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown to Lieutenant I.V. Pashchenko was awarded on August 18, 1945.
After the war he continued his service in the Air Force, flew on MiG-15 and MiG-17 jets . In 1950 he graduated from flight tactical training courses for officers, in 1955 - the command department of the Air Force Academy [4] . He served in Romania , Taganrog , Odessa , the Baltic States, East Germany , Tiraspol - chief of staff of the 119th Nevel Red Banner Order of the Suvorov II degree fighter aviation division .
He left the reserve in 1973 with the rank of colonel . He worked as a military instructor in Tiraspol at the school, chairman of the committee of the DOSAAF sewing factory. During the years of perestroika, he actively participated in the revival of the Black Sea Cossack army , in the 1990s he was chosen as his first chieftain . During the conflict in Transnistria , being in this rank, he led the creation of Cossack units to preserve the territorial integrity of Transnistria and protect it from nationalists; For his active position, he was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Transnistria . "
In 1996, due to the instability of the situation, he went to Novouralsk to his eldest daughter Lyudmila. In October 2009, the family moved to Yaroslavl . He was married, two daughters Lyudmila and Elena, two grandchildren Oleg, Vladislav and granddaughter Violetta, four great-grandchildren Kirill Vadim, Vitaly and Vladimir.
Rewards and memory
He was awarded the Order of Lenin , three orders of the Red Banner , orders of the Patriotic War I and II degree, two orders of the Red Star , 28 [5] medals, including the regional medal "For Works for the Good of the Land of Yaroslavl" [6] .
The name of Ivan Vasilyevich Pashchenko is Blagodarnenskaya secondary school No. 6 of the Otradnensky district of the Krasnodar Territory, in which he studied. In Odessa, in the square of Heroes-pilots at the 5th station of the Big Fountain, an obelisk is installed on which, among other aces of the Great Patriotic War, who glorified the city, the name of Ivan Vasilyevich Pashchenko is inscribed.
Notes
- ↑ Name on the monument .
- ↑ Pashchenko, Ivan Vasilievich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
- ↑ School No. 7 "Krasnodar Territory, Timashevsky District, Art. Dnieper " .
- ↑ Collective of authors. History of the command faculty of the Air Force Academy named after Yu. A. Gagarin / V.E. Zenkov. - Moscow: ZAO JV Contact RL, 2007. - S. 2651. - 368 p. - ISBN 5-902908-02-7 .
- ↑ He learned military science with excellent marks . State TV and Radio Company “Yaroslavia” .
- ↑ The Governor of the Yaroslavl region awarded the veteran of the Great Patriotic War the medal "For Works for the Good of the Land of Yaroslavl"
Literature
- Team of authors. History of the command faculty of the Air Force Academy named after Yu. A. Gagarin / V.E. Zenkov. - Moscow: ZAO JV Contact RL, 2007. - S. 261. - 368 p. - ISBN 5-902908-02-7 .
Links
- Pashchenko, Ivan Vasilievich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
- Ozerova D. Name on the monument // Evening Odessa, No. 57 (9188), April 20, 2010.
- Ozerova D. On the personal date of a veteran // Yarnovsti. 2010-02-15 .
- Heroes do not die // Shmelev N.A. From low altitudes. - M.: Military Publishing, 1966.
- “Air Workers of the War” - Part I, II and III // Published in “NGG” No. 19, 20 of May 9 and 16, 2007
- Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Pashchenko dies // Yaroslavl News - Yaroslavl Region , Valery Galanov, October 17, 2014
- Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Pashchenko dies in Yaroslavl // News of Yaroslavl - Komsomolskaya Pravda in Yaroslavl , Sergey Khavronin, October 17, 2014