Pulov, Grigory Ivanovich

He graduated from Ivanovo junior high school in 1934, one-year teacher training courses for elementary school at the Yuryev-Polsk Pedagogical College in 1935, one-year teacher training courses at the Vladimir Pedagogical College in 1937. He worked as a primary school teacher in the village of Ploskovo in the Komsomolsky District of the Ivanovo Region (1935-1936), as a geography teacher in one of Vladimir's schools (1937-1938). In 1937 he graduated from the Vladimir Aero Club, in 1938 - the Kherson School of Pilot Instructors Osoaviahim . He worked as an instructor pilot from the Kostroma flying club from 1939 to 1942. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1939.

In March 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army . He retrained in the reserve aviation regiment.

Member of the Great Patriotic War from July 7, 1942 to March 1945. The entire combat path went to the 959th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Regiment (the 147th Air Defense Fighter Division , the 328th Air Defense Air Division from January 1944): pilot, flight commander , and squadron commander from April 1943. He fought as part of the troops of the Western Front of Air Defense and the Northern Front of Air Defense ), performed missions to defend from the air the objects of the Moscow industrial region (including the city of Yaroslavl . During the Soviet offensive, he performed missions to cover the rear of the Soviet Belorussian fronts from the air, including the railway junction Smolensk , also accompanied the transport planes to the front fought on the fighters. " Hurricane " and Yak-7 by July 1944 made 50 sorties. ^[1] , spent 2 night air battles, won a personal victory - in airy th fight on the night of June 28, 1944 in repelling the German air attack on Smolensk Lieutenant GI Pools shot down an enemy bomber He-111 ^[2] .

After the war, he continued to serve in the USSR Air Defense Forces. In March 1945 he was recalled from the regiment, sent to study, in June 1949 he graduated from the Air Force Academy in Monino . Since 1949, he served as deputy commander of the 523rd Fighter Aviation Regiment ( 303rd Fighter Aviation Division , 78th Air Defense Fighter Army , Moscow Air Defense District ), which was stationed in Yaroslavl. In the summer of 1950, after the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, the regiment and the entire division were urgently transferred to the Far East . A few months later, the regiment was transferred to Northern China .

Member of the Korean War from March 28, 1951 to March 1, 1952 . In April 1951, he was appointed commander of the 17th Fighter Aviation Regiment to replace the former commander who was removed for low training of the regiment and the first air battles lost. He proved himself in the fighting as a skilled organizer and master of tactics of air battles - a regiment under his command destroyed 108 American planes, losing only 10 of his planes. The regiment commander himself made 115 sorties on the MiG-15 , in 60 air battles he personally shot down 8 enemy aircraft (7 US jet fighters and one Gloucester Meteor of the Australian Air Force).

For courage and bravery shown in the performance of military duty, Lt. Col. Pulov Grigory Ivanovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 22, 1952 with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal (No. 10858). In addition to him, Nikolai Sutyagin (22 wins, the best ace of jet fighter aviation), Mikhail Ponomarev (10 wins), Nikolai Dokashenko (9 wins) became the Heroes of the Soviet Union in the 17th Fighter Aviation Regiment. Another 5 pilots of the regiment in the sky of Korea became aces, scoring from 8 to 5 personal victories.

After the Korean War he continued his service. Since October 1953, he was an adjunct of the Department of Tactics of Fighter Aviation and Air Defense of the Air Force Academy . Since October 1954 - Senior Inspector-Pilot of the Flight Training Division of the Combat Training Directorate of the Fighter Aviation of the Air Defense Forces of the country . From July 1960 - deputy commander, and from January 1963 - commander of the 24th Fighter Aviation Division ( 11th separate air defense army ), which was deployed at the airfields of Sakhalin Island ). Since September 1968 - commander of the 15th Air Defense Corps of the Baku Air Defense District . Since December 1970 - Deputy Commander of the Air Defense District of the Baku District for combat training - Head of the combat training department of the district headquarters. During the military service mastered 17 types of aircraft, up to the MiG-21 . Since January 1975 in stock.

He lived in Moscow. From 1976 to 1988, he worked as an engineer and lead engineer at the Moscow Engineering Plant of the Mikoyan Design Bureau . He died on December 26, 2005. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow ^[3] .

A plaque is installed on the building of the former pedagogical college in the city of Yuryev-Polsky ^[4]

• Junior Reserve Lieutenant (1939)
• Lieutenant (May 1943)
• Senior Lieutenant (07/13/1944)
• captain (07.14.1947)
• Major (04/28/1951)
• Lieutenant Colonel (12.12.1951)
• Colonel (06/13/1946)
• Major General of Aviation (05/07/1966)

• Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union (04/22/1952)
• Order of Lenin (04/22/1952)
• 3 orders of the Red Banner (10/10/1951, 08/14/1957, 02/22/1968)
• 2 orders of World War I degree (07/31/1944, 03/11/1985)
• Order of the Red Star (05/14/1956)
• Medal "For Military Merit" (12/30/1956)
• other medals of the USSR
• Sino-Soviet Friendship Medal ( PRC )

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• To all deaths in spite. Moscow: publishing house "Knowledge", 2000.
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• Golubev E.P. Battle stars. Kostroma, 2009 .-- pp. 63–65.
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• Nagorny A.F., Travkin V.V. Vladimirtsy are the heroes of the Soviet Union. Vladimir, 1963. ^[5]

• Pulov, Grigory Ivanovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Biography and the military way of G. I. Pulov on the site "Soviet aces"
• About G. I. Pulov on the site “Forgotten Kostroma”
• Biography and photograph on the website of GBPOU VO "Yuryev-Polish Industrial and Humanitarian College"
• Biography of G. I. Pulov on the site "Ivanovo remembers"