Medvedev, Alexander Nikolaevich

He was born on February 23, 1918 in the village of Protasikha now in the Koverninsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region in a peasant family. Russian

He graduated from college. He worked as the director of the club Bor Glassworks.

In the Red Army since 1938. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1939.

In 1940 he graduated from the Melitopol Military Aviation School, and was sent for further service to the 130th High-Speed ​​Bomber Aviation Regiment (13th Bomber Aviation Division), which was based at the Zyabrovka airfield near the city of Gomel ( Belarus ). As a navigator, A.N. Medvedev was included in the crew of the SB bomber, the pilot of which was A.A. Lokhanov , and gunner-radio operator V.K. Sudakov (all three subsequently became Heroes of the Soviet Union).

Member of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. The first combat mission took place a day after the start of the war - June 24, 1941. Due to the fact that in the first battles on the Western Front, the aviation regiment, in which Alexander Medvedev served, suffered heavy losses, the remaining and newly formed crews, including the crew of Lokhanov-Medvedev-Sudakov, were retrained in July-September 1941 on dive bombers " Pe-2 ", and on October 5, 1941 as part of the 146th aviation division for the first time bombed the enemy in these aircraft. He took an active part in the defeat of the Nazi troops near Moscow. It was shot down over the BSSR in late autumn, and for several weeks the wounded escaped from the rear of the enemy, left alone with nature. After being tested in Kazan through the counterintelligence line.

By order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR of September 3, 1943 No. 265 and Directive of the General Staff of the Red Army of September 4, 1943 No. Org / 10/138919, the 130th Bomber Aviation Regiment was transformed into the 122nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment. Navigator of the 122nd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (3rd Guards Bomber Aviation Division, 3rd Air Army, 1st Baltic Front) of the Guard Major Alexander Medvedev, by October 1944, made two hundred and thirty-four successful sorties for bombing enemy troops, communications destroying a large amount of enemy manpower and equipment.

In aerial combat, the navigator Medvedev personally shot down five and in a group of three enemy aircraft, and the three “crew of heroes”, as they prophetically called him back in 1942, shot down thirteen enemy aircraft. By the end of the war he had the rank of major guard. He took part in the Victory Parade of 1945.

After the war, A. N. Medvedev graduated from the Air Force Academy and the General Staff Military Academy. Chief of Staff - First Deputy Commander of Long-Range Aviation (10/12/1963 - 06/19/1972). Colonel-General of Aviation A. Medvedev held the responsible post of the 1st Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Air Force. He lived in Moscow. Died May 28, 1984 from leukemia. He was buried at the Kuntsevsky cemetery in Moscow (section 9-2). His grave is an object of cultural heritage ^[1] .

In the city of Semenov, Nizhny Novgorod Region, a bust is installed on the Heroes Alley. On September 1, 2018, a solemn ruler was held in the secondary school of Semenov in honor of the 100th anniversary of Alexander Nikolaevich, with the support of the city and in the presence of relatives and friends.

His wife, Zinaida Vladimirovna (military paramedic), whom she met before the war and met at the front, died in 1998. There is a daughter, Tatyana, born in 1947, a graduate of the Moscow Aviation Institute, granddaughter Olga and grandson Alexander, named after the hero-grandfather.

• By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 18, 1945, for the exemplary performance of command missions at the front of the struggle against Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism of the guard shown to this, Major Alexander Medvedev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal "(No. 8001). ^[2]
• He was awarded two Orders of Lenin (February 1942 ^[3] , August 1945), two Orders of the Red Banner (December 1941 ^[4] ,?), The Order of Suvorov 3rd degree (November 1943) ^[5] , Order of Alexander Nevsky ^[6] , World War 1 degree (August 1943) ^[7] , two orders of the Red Star (September 1942 ^[8] ,?), medals (including "For Defense" Moscow ", as well as foreign orders and medals.

• V. Naumov. The crew of three heroes // Wings of the Motherland . - M :: DOSAAF, 1969. - No. 8 . - S. 6, 7 .

• Medvedev, Alexander Nikolaevich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
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