3rd Aviation Primary School

The building of the Orthodox Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin, in which the hostel of the flight school was located in the village of Klimovo

Ibresinsky flight school (in official documents of the war - 3 primary training aviation schools ) - a military training flight school, located in the village of Ibresi, Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic during the Great Patriotic War . Pilots who left hospitals were trained at the school, and pilots who were still flying on civilian planes were retrained for flights in military vehicles. School and airfields were classified. It existed until the spring of 1945 .

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History

At the end of 1941 during the Great Patriotic War, near the village of Ibresi, a military unit was located, relocated to the Ibresinsky district from the suburbs and became the base for the flight training school ^[1] .

In the fall of 1941, a flying school was transferred from Stalinogorsk to Ibresi. The school was relocated from Stalinogorsk at the initiative of G.P. Polytykin . ^[2]

Four airfields were prepared: in Ibresy, in the villages of Klimovo and Chuvash Timyashi of the Ibresinsky district and in the village of Novye Shordany of the Kanashsky district. The head of the aviation school A. Beletsky spoke warmly about the locals: “In winter, children and old people came to the airfield with shovels, sledges to clear the airfield,” he wrote ... ^[3]

Behind the village in the fields was equipped an airfield, which housed the military. Later cadet pilots appeared. The term of study of cadets on average lasted 4 months, after which they were sent to the front. The head of the aviation school was M.T. Litvinov.

In this school, after a serious wound from the beginning of 1943, senior lieutenant pilot Alexei Petrovich Maresyev , who was sent here by the Air Force personnel department, restored the ability to fly without legs. Maresyev worked here as a flight instructor for over five months. Maresyev arrived at this school from the sanatorium after being wounded, having received permission to continue serving in the aircraft, and again learned to fly, fly a plane without legs. Maresyev arrived here to test the flight in an airplane and to conclude that he could continue serving as a military pilot. In 1943, he left for the front as part of a guards fighter regiment and shot down 11 enemy aircraft before the end of the war. In the ethnographic museum of the village of Ibresi, correspondence with the legendary pilot was preserved.

At that time, Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Moiseevich Yukov , now living in Moscow, was the chief of staff of the school.

According to the memoirs of V. M. Yukov, in the spring of 1943 impassable dirt formed on the roads, cars didn’t go, products for the school were delivered from Kanash to Ibresi on horses. On the days of flights, pilots often reached the airfield on foot.

The barracks of pilots was located on the street, currently bearing the name of Maresyev. The school's airfields were located near the villages of Shirtany , Klimovo , Chuvash Timyashi and the village of Lenino .

A dormitory was temporarily located in the high school building.

After the Head of the training school, V. M. Yukov, was recalled to Moscow, Lieutenant Colonel Anton Fedoseevich Beletsky was appointed in his place, who was also without a leg and went on a prosthesis. He worked at this school for about four years.

All officers lived in private homes with owners who rented corners to them in their homes. The school was helped by the residents of Ibres, the villages of Klimovo, Chuvash Timyashi, the village of Lenino and others. In order to make flights more intensively, it was necessary to clean the airfield from snow to soil. Residents, including old people and children, performed labor-intensive work voluntarily, arriving with a large number of shovels and sledges. According to A.F. Beletsky, the aviation school, which was located in Ibresy and its environs, was in good standing in the USSR Air Force system.

Pilots learned to fly on the UT-2 and U-2 ^[4] . There were cases of accidents, there is a known case of the death of a pilot and instructor who jumped out of an airplane that was ignited in the air. ^[one]

In Ibresyach there is a monument to the unknown pilot and an obelisk to the dead pilots of the flight school along Engels Street of the village.

From 1941 to 1945, a unit of the Ibresinsky flight school was based in the village of Klimovo. The building of the village club housed a canteen for pilots, and the school building - a dormitory . At the aerodromes of a flying school, one of which was located near the village, the legendary pilot Senior Lieutenant A.P. Maresyev , who became the Hero of the Soviet Union, learned to fly without injuries (on prostheses) after being wounded ^[5] . Here (in the interval from July 1943 to May 1944 ), the sons of high-ranking figures of the Soviet state learned to fly on UT-2 training aircraft: the son of the Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, A. S. Shcherbakov , the future Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Shcherbakov and the son of a member State Defense Committee A.I. Mikoyan - Alexey Mikoyan ^[6] .

Beletsky served in this school for about four years, relocated the school in the city of Sasovo, Ryazan Region. Beletsky, on the other hand, accepted the test flight of Maresyev already at the Sasovskiy flight school of civil aviation .

Cadets

Zakharov, Ivan Alekseevich - Honored Military Pilot of the USSR
Andreev, Victor Mikhailovich - Hero of the Soviet Union
Alasheev, Yuri Timofeevich - Hero of the Soviet Union

Sources

Notes

↑ ¹ ² Ladugin V. Second wings of Maresyev. // Kama Dawns, May 14, 2008
↑ Article
↑ Article (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment December 16, 2018. Archived on September 29, 2013.
↑ Pride action - April 20, 2010 - IO "Ibresinskaya Secondary School No. 2"
↑ Tourism in the Ibresinsky district // gov.cap.ru
↑ Memoirs of the front-line soldier of the Knight of the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Ivan Ivanovich Milenko Archived on September 27, 2013. / Interviews and literary editing by M. A. Zhirokhov // www.uvao.ru ( copy of interview Archived on September 27, 2013. //www.uvao.ru)