Dmitry Aleksandrovich Medvedev ( September 21, 1918 - November 26, 1992 ) - Soviet military commander, military pilot , Hero of the Soviet Union ( 05/15/1946 ). During World War II - commander of the 486th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 279th Fighter Aviation Division of the 3rd Guards Assault Aviation Corps of the 5th Air Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front , lieutenant colonel [1] .
| Dmitry Alexandrovich Medvedev | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of Birth | September 21, 1918 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | pos. Uzlovaya , now Tula region , Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | November 26, 1992 ( 74) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A place of death | Saint Petersburg , Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of army |  Air Force | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1935 - 1975 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Battles / wars | Fights on Khalkhin Gol , Soviet-Finnish War The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Retired | Chairman of the Leningrad City Council of Veterans of War and Labor | ||||||||||||||||||||
In the post-war period, the deputy commander of the missile army, the commander of a separate missile corps, the deputy head of the AF Mozhaisky Military Engineering Academy , and the lieutenant general of aviation .
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 Memory
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
Biography
Born September 21, 1918 in the village of Uzlovaya (now the city of the Tula region) in a working class family. Russian Member of the CPSU (b) since 1944. He graduated from 9 classes.
In the Red Army since 1935.
In 1937 he graduated from the 8th Odessa Military Aviation Pilot School named after P. D. Osipenko and served in the Belarusian Military District .
Member of the battles against Japanese troops on the Khalkhin Gol River in the summer of 1939. He commanded a squadron of the 22nd Fighter Aviation Regiment (23rd Fighter Aviation Brigade, 1st Army Group). Altogether, in the sky of Mongolia, he made 75 sorties, shot down two fighters (including one I-96 - with ramming on opposite courses) and one enemy bomber. For this company he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner , the Mongolian Order, and received the early rank of senior lieutenant .
Member of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 . Flying on an I-153 biplane, he commanded a link in the squadron of Joseph Geibo of the 7th fighter aviation regiment . The regiment was based on the ice of the frozen Lake Valk-Yarvi (now called Nakhimovsky ), was engaged in attacking ground targets and escorting its bombers.
In early March 1940, the plane of D.A. Medvedev was hit by anti-aircraft fire, and the pilot miraculously survived - the car fell to the ground and fell to pieces. A week later, having recovered a little, he participated in the battles for the liberation of Vyborg .
On the fronts of World War II from June 1941. During the war, Dmitry Medvedev made 298 sorties, personally destroyed 14 and in a group of 15 enemy aircraft (excluding victories at Khalkhin Gol).
The title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the awarding of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 7522) was awarded to Dmitry Alexandrovich Medvedev by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, courage and high flying skill shown in the fight against the German invaders.
After the war, D. A. Medvedev, in 1951, graduated from the Red Banner Air Force Academy [2] . He commanded a fighter air division. In 1959 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff .
Since 1960, he served in the Strategic Missile Forces : deputy commander of a missile army, commander of a separate missile corps, deputy head of the A. F. Mozhaysky Military Engineering Academy .
Since 1975, Lieutenant General Medvedev - in stock. He lived in the hero city of Leningrad (since 1991 - St. Petersburg ), was chairman of the city Council of war and labor veterans.
He died on November 26, 1992.
Wife - Alla Ilyinichna.
Rewards
- Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union (No. 7522);
- two orders of Lenin ;
- Order of the October Revolution (11/18/1988)
- six orders of the Red Banner ;
- two orders of World War I degree;
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor ;
- two orders of the Red Star ;
- Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree;
- medals, including:
- medal “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
- anniversary medal “Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
- anniversary medal “Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
- Anniversary medal “Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
- foreign award.
Memory
- He was buried at the Serafimovsky cemetery in St. Petersburg .
- The name of the Hero was carried by the pioneer squad of school No. 59 of the city of Uzlovaya , the electric workshop of the locomotive depot of the railway station Uzlovaya .
- A plaque on the house where he lived: st. Red Cadet, d. 26 [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Position and military rank on the date of submission to the conferment of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
- ↑ 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. 248. - 368 p. - ISBN 5-902908-02-7 .
- ↑ Dolinin S. In the sky - Dad! // St. Petersburg Gazette. - 2017. - November 24
Literature
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1988. - T. 2 / Love - Yashchuk /. - 863 s. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-00536-2 .
- 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. 248. - 368 p. - ISBN 5-902908-02-7 .
- Military Encyclopedic Dictionary of Strategic Missile Forces / Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation; Ch. Ed .: I. D. Sergeev , V. N. Yakovlev , N. E. Solovtsov . - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 1999 .-- 632 p. - 8500 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-315-X . . - S. 282.
Links
- Medvedev, Dmitry Alexandrovich . Site " Heroes of the country ". (Retrieved January 25, 2012)
- Scanned copies from the original award sheet: sheet 1 , sheet 2 , sheet 3 , sheet 4 . (Retrieved January 25, 2012)
