Valentin Epifanovich Pankin ( January 7, 1931 - June 5, 1997 ) - Chief of the General Staff - 1st Deputy Commander- in- Chief of the Air Force of the USSR , Colonel General of Aviation (10/25/1979), Honored Military Pilot of the USSR (1981) [1] .
| Valentin Epifanovich Pankin | ||||||||
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| Date of Birth | January 7, 1931 | |||||||
| Place of Birth | Vikhlyaevsky farm, Novoanninsky district , Lower Volga region , the RSFSR , the USSR (now Novoanninsky district , Volgograd region , Russia ) | |||||||
| Date of death | June 5, 1997 (66 years old) | |||||||
| Affiliation |  USSR →  Russia | |||||||
| Type of army | Air force | |||||||
| Rank |  Colonel General of Aviation | |||||||
| Commanded | Air Force of the Kiev Military District , General Staff of the USSR Air Force | |||||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Works
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Biography
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| V.E. Pankin (first) at the Magdeburg GSVG training ground, 1980s | |
Born on January 7, 1931 at the Vikhlyaevsky farm [1] .
In 1952 he graduated from the Batay Military Aviation School named after A.K. Serov , in 1959 - from the Air Force Academy , in 1972 - from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR named after K. E. Voroshilov .
He served in the Air Force of the Baltic Military District . In 1972-1979 he commanded the air armies (from April 1974 to December 1979 - commander of the 1st Red Banner Air Army in the Far Eastern Federal District), in 1979-1985 - the Air Force of the Kiev Military District .
In 1985-1990 - Chief of the Main Staff of the Air Force - First Deputy Commander- in- Chief of the Air Force of the USSR [2] . In 1992 - the senior group of military specialists in the Republic of India .
Since 1955 he was a member of the CPSU . The delegate of the XXV (1976) and XXVII (1986) congresses of the CPSU and the XIX All-Union Party Conference (1988).
He was elected deputy of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR of the 10th and 11th convocations (1980-1990).
Died June 5, 1997. He was buried at the Moninsky Military Memorial Cemetery [3] .
Compositions
- The evolution of the organizational structure of the Air Force, methods and methods of organization of command and cooperation during the Great Patriotic War // Role of the Air Force in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 (Based on materials from the IX Military Scientific Conference of the Air Force). - M., 1986
- Pankin V.E. Air Force in the Great Patriotic War // Military History Journal. - 1985. - No. 7 .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Pankin Valentin Epifanovich // Aviation encyclopedia in persons / Otv. A.N. Efimov . - Moscow: Bars, 2007 .-- S. 458. - 712 p. - ISBN 978-5-85914-075-6 .
- ↑ Kraskovsky V.M. 1985. Restoring the organizational structure of the air defense forces // In the service of a unique homeland: memories. - Tver: Tver Regional Printing House, 2008. - 537 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-87049-568-2 .
- ↑ List of burials at Moninsky Memorial Cemetery . The official portal of the Administration of the urban settlement of Monino. Date of treatment June 7, 2012. Archived on September 15, 2012.
List of generals and officers buried at the Moninsky Memorial Cemetery from 1940 to 2011 among those who worked in the WWA and participants in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. // Moninsky Bulletin. - 2012, March 30. - S. 4 .
In both sources, the year of birth of V.E. Pankin is 1913 (typo?)
Literature
- Deputies of the Supreme For the sake of Ukrainian RSR: Eleventh clicks. - Kyiv, 1985 .-- S. 211.
- Red Star, 1997 (obituary).
Links
- Who is who: P: Pankin Valentin Epifanovich . Russian Air Force: people and planes (November 27, 2009). Date of treatment June 7, 2012. Archived on September 15, 2012.