Dolgov, Ivan Illarionovich

He was born on April 15, 1920 in the village of Bolshaya Gribanovka (now the district center of the Voronezh region, the urban-type village of Gribanovsky ) in a peasant family. Russian

He graduated from eight classes of a school and two courses of an electrical school. In 1936, he moved with his family to Moscow, where he graduated from high school and worked as an electrician for the reconstruction of bridges. At the same time he studied at the flying club.

In the Red Army since December 10, 1939 . In July 1941, he graduated from the Borisoglebsk Military Aviation Pilot School ^[1] with the rank of sergeant and was sent to the Trans-Baikal Military District. He served in Chita and the Mongolian People’s Republic , flew an I-153 aircraft in the 70th fighter regiment as part of the 37th and 87th mixed air divisions, and then on the U-2 in the 846th light-bomber Regiment of the 12th Air Army.

He took part in the Great Patriotic War from August 1943 . He fought on the Voronezh, 1st Ukrainian and 3rd Ukrainian fronts. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1944 .

As part of the 2nd Air Army, Dolgov took part in supporting the front forces in the Kiev direction and in the battle for the Dnieper; in the Kiev offensive and the liberation of Kiev; Kiev defensive operation; Zhytomyr-Berdichev operation; Korsun-Shevchenkovsky operation; Proskuro-Chernivtsi operation. In May 1944, the 715th night near-bomber regiment was withdrawn from the 208th division and sent to the rear for retraining of the flight personnel on the Il-2 attack aircraft . After retraining and manning with airplanes, the 715th regiment became known as the 715th assault aviation and from August 1944, it fought in the 136th assault aviation division of the 17th air army on the 3rd Ukrainian front. After that, I. I. Dolgov participated in the Iasi-Kishinev strategic operation and the liberation of Moldova, the Belgrade offensive operation to liberate the eastern and southern parts of Yugoslavia and its capital, Belgrade; Budapest Strategic Offensive; Balaton Defensive Operation; Vienna strategic operation.

By February 1945, Lieutenant I. I. Dolgov made 257 sorties (165 sorties on the Po-2 plane at night and 92 sorties on the Il-2 plane) to destroy defenses, accumulations of tanks, artillery positions, live enemy forces and equipment.

After Dolgov he continued to serve as the squadron commander of the 232nd assault aviation regiment in the Lviv and Carpathian military districts with a deployment in the city of Lutsk . In 1955 he graduated from the Air Force Academy. After the academy, he served in the headquarters of the Air Force of the North Caucasus Military District in the city of Rostov-on-Don .

Since 1961, Colonel I.I. Dolgov - in stock. He lived in the city of Rostov-on-Don , worked as chief of staff of the civil defense of the Civil Engineering Institute .

He died on October 20 ^[2] 1995 . He was buried in Rostov-on-Don .

• By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 29, 1945, for the courage and heroism shown during the bombing and assault attacks on the enemy, Lieutenant Dolgov Ivan Illarionovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 6897).
• He was also awarded two orders of the Red Banner (01/31/1945; 05/24/1945), two orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (1944, 1985), the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree (1944), the Order of the Red Star (1955), medals " For military merits ”(1951),“ For the liberation of Belgrade ”,“ For the capture of Budapest ”,“ For the capture of Vienna ”,“ For the liberation of Prague ”,“ For the victory over Germany ”,“ XXX years of the SA and the Navy ”.

• Dolgov I.I. Notes of a military pilot. - Rostov-on-Don: Book publishing house, 1989. - 191 p. - ISBN 5-7509-1218-3 .

• In 2010, the Marka Publishing Center issued a postal envelope of Russia dedicated to I. I. Dolgov.
• In Rostov-on-Don, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where the hero lived.

• Heroes of the Soviet Union of the Rostov region .

• Dolgov, Ivan Illarionovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia - I. Dolgov
• Dolgov Ivan Illarionovich // Heroes of the Don: bio-bibliographic reference book / Don State Public Library; comp. N.N. Zaitseva. Rostov-on-Don, 2017 -.