Sadovnikov, Nikolai Fedorovich (Hero of the Soviet Union)

He was born on October 25, 1946 in the village of Likhovskaya (now the microdistrict of the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky of the same name) in the Rostov Region. Russian

Nikolay’s father, Fyodor Vasilyevich, worked as a senior contractor in a train depot, and his mother, Tatyana Alekseevna, was engaged in household work. Nikolai was left without a father early and raised by one mother.

In 1964 he graduated from high school with a silver medal.

In the Soviet Army since August 1964 - entered the Yeisk Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots. He graduated in 1968 and served in the combat units of the Air Force (in the Southern Group of Forces in Hungary ).

Since December 1973, captain NF Sadovnikov is in stock. In 1975 he graduated from the School of test pilots.

• In 1975-1979, he was a test pilot at the Flight Research Institute (now LII named after M. M. Gromov).
• In 1979-1988 - test pilot of the Design Bureau named after P.O. Sukhoi.
• In 1987-1988, he set 10 world aviation records of altitude and climb on a Su-27 aircraft. Twice catapulted from emergency aircraft.
• In April-June 1980, as part of the Rhombus group, he participated in military operations in Afghanistan ; made 15 sorties on the Su-25 attack aircraft .
• In 1987, Sadovnikov was awarded the title of Major .

On September 28, 1988, Nikolai Sadovnikov was forced to eject from an uncontrollable one that fell into a Su-27K tailspin while being upside down in conditions of negative overload. Due to injuries, he could no longer fly and since 1989 he continued to work as deputy chief of flight service of the OKB named after P.O. Sukhoi.

He lived in the city of Zhukovsky, Moscow Region. Died July 22, 1994 from the effects of trauma during bailouts.

He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Ostrovtsy, Ramensky district, Moscow region ^[2] .

Family

• Wife - Larisa (married in 1967).
• Children:
  • son Andrei (born 1968);
  • daughter Irina (born 1978).

• For courage and heroism shown during the testing of new aviation equipment, test pilot Sadovnikov Nikolai Fedorovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by a decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet on October 31, 1988 with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 11588).
• He was awarded the Orders of Lenin (1988), the Red Banner of Labor (1982, "for the great labor merits shown during the testing of new aviation equipment") and medals.
• Certificate of honor from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to the “Warrior-Internationalist” (awarded by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of December 28, 1988 “for courage and military valor shown in the performance of the international duty in the Republic of Afghanistan” with the award of the badge to the “Soldier-internationalist”).
• Honored Test Pilot of the USSR (1989), master of sports of the USSR of international class (1990).

• The name of Sadovnikov is secondary school number 8 in Zhukovsky, where there is a museum of Sadovnikov ^[3] , and a bust of the Hero is installed on the territory of the school.
• In Zhukovsky, a memorial plaque was installed on the house in which the Hero lived ^[4] .

“He was a stunningly neat man, a man of word and deed, a man with the highest demands on himself and others. For many years of collaboration, I did not remember a single poorly executed flight. "

- Victor Pugachev , Hero of the Soviet Union , Honored Test Pilot ^[1] .

• List of Heroes of the Soviet Union of the Rostov Region

• Simonov A.A. Honored Testers of the USSR. - Moscow: Aviamir, 2009 .-- S. 167-168. - 384 p. - ISBN 978-5-904399-05-4 .
• Vasin V.P. , Simonov A.A. Testers LII. - Zhukovsky: Aviation Printing Yard, 2001. - P. 102. - 192 p. - ISBN 5-93705-008-8 .

Sadovnikov, Nikolai Fedorovich (Hero of the Soviet Union) (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

• Website in memory of Nikolai Sadovnikov .
• Sadovnikov Nikolay Fedorovich .