Kostylev, Alexander Nikolaevich

Alexander Kostylev was born on October 20 ( November 2 ), 1908 , in a working class family in a working-class village of Peskovsky in the Glazovsky district of the Vyatka province (nowadays, an urban-type village of Peskovka, Omutninsky District, Kirov Region ). Russian

He graduated from seven classes of the school. Then he studied at the school of FZU at the Peskovsky Metallurgical Plant, mastered the specialty of a joiner-modeller. At the school of FZU, Alexander Nikolaevich was carried away by Komsomol work, joined the CPSU (b) .

In 1929 he graduated from the Vyatka concurrent school and was appointed secretary of the Zyuzdinsky district committee of the Komsomol . He was engaged in the organization of collective farms , then became the first chairman of the collective farm "Leninsky Put" in the village of Georgievo, Zyuzdinsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region (now Afanasyevsky District, Kirov Region).

In the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army A.N. Kostylev was called up by the Omutninsky District Military Commissariat in 1930. He graduated from artillery school. He served in the artillery regiment as a commander of a fire platoon. After demobilization in 1933 he returned to his native places and in the same year, in the direction of the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU (b), he entered the Orenburg Military Aviation School . After graduating from college in 1936, he served as the aviation commander in a bomber regiment. In 1939, Lieutenant A.N. Kostylev completed the courses of commissioner-pilots at the Kharkov Military Aviation School of Pilots, after which he was appointed to the post of military commissar of the 50th High-Speed ​​Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 71st High-Speed ​​Bomber Aviation Brigade of the Leningrad Military District . Before the start of the Winter War, the regiment was stationed at the Siverskaya aerodrome of the Gatchinsky district of the Leningrad region .

The 50th High Speed ​​Bomber Regiment participated in the hostilities on the Karelian Isthmus since December 19, 1939. On January 10, 1940, the regiment became part of the 18th high-speed bomber aviation brigade of the 7th Army Air Force. During the war, the battalion commissar A.N. Kostylev on the SB bomber made 44 successful sorties to bombard the enemy’s military infrastructure and its front line of defense. Alexander Nikolaevich participated in the bombing of Antrea (now Kamennogorsk ), Imatra and Vyborg , as well as directly the Mannerheim line in the Summa-Khotinen-Khotokka section. In air battles, Kostylev’s crew shot down at least three Finnish fighters. The military commissar’s contribution to the organization of party political and educational work among the young pilots of the unit was also highly appreciated by the command. On March 21, 1940, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the battalion commissar Kostylev Alexander Nikolaevich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

After the end of the Soviet-Finnish war, the regiment, in which A.N. Kostylev served, was withdrawn to the Siverskaya airfield, and in August 1940 the Baltic Special Military District was transferred and included in the 4th Mixed Air Division . Before the start of World War II, the regiment was based at the Ungra airfield in the Estonian town of Haapsalu . In the battles with the Nazi invaders A.N. Kostylev from the first days of the war on the North-Western Front. He participated in the bombing of the advancing units of the Wehrmacht and Soviet air raids on Koenigsberg . In August - September 1941, as part of the Air Force of the 24th Army of the Reserve Front, he took part in the Elninsky operation . In the fall of 1941, the regiment suffered heavy losses and was brought to reformation. The flight crew underwent retraining on Pe-2 bombers.

Once again, the 50th Bomber Aviation Regiment in the army in June 1942. As part of the 223rd Bomber Aviation Division of the 2nd Air Army of the Bryansk Front, Alexander Nikolaevich participated in the Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad operation . In August, the 2nd Air Army was deployed to the Voronezh Front and participated in defensive battles in the Stalingrad direction. In October 1942, in connection with the abolition of the institution of military commissars, Lt. Col. A.N. Kostylev was appointed deputy regiment commander for political affairs, and on November 17, 1942, the 50th bomber regiment was transformed into the 50th separate reconnaissance aviation regiment . In his new capacity, Alexander Nikolaevich participated in the Middle Don , Ostrogozhsk-Rossoshansk , Voronezh-Kastornensk , Kharkov offensive and Kharkov defensive operations. During the next reconnaissance flight before the start of the Battle of Kursk on June 23, 1943, the aircraft of Lieutenant Colonel A.N. Kostylev was attacked by two Me-109 fighters and shot down. Alexander Nikolaevich managed to land a burning plane on his territory. A badly burnt pilot was evacuated to the hospital.

Alexander Nikolaevich underwent a number of heavy operations and was discharged from the medical institution only on October 24, 1944. He has not returned to the front. Since October 1944, he served as deputy commander of an aviation regiment for the political part of the Military Academy of the command and navigator of the Red Army Air Force . In 1946-1950, he served as deputy chief of flight test station for the political part of the Air Force Engineering Academy named after Professor N. E. Zhukovsky. Since 1950, he was deputy commander of an air regiment for political affairs at the State Red Banner Air Force Research and Test Institute in Akhtubinsk . In 1951, Alexander Nikolayevich was awarded the next military rank - Colonel, and in November 1953 he was transferred to the reserve after long service.

After leaving the army, A. N. Kostylev lived in the city of Shchelkovo, Moscow Region . He worked as a master-educator of youth hostels at the Shchelkovsky Pump Plant (now ENA OJSC). Then he headed the factory club. At the same time, he headed the military-patriotic education section of the Shchelkovskaya city organization of the All-Union Knowledge Society . October 2, 1983, Alexander Nikolaevich died. He was buried at the Grebensky cemetery of the city of Shchelkovo.

• Gold Star Medal (03/21/1940);
• Order of Lenin (03/21/1940);
• Order of the Red Banner - twice (01/15/1940; 1950);
• Order of the Patriotic War of 1 degree (11/06/1947);
• Order of the Red Star (05/06/1946).
• Medals, including:

medal "For Military Merit" (04/30/1945).

• A memorial plaque in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union A.N. Kostylev was installed in the village of Chkalovsky in the town of Shchelkovo at Tsiolkovsky Street, 1.
• The name of the Hero of the Soviet Union A.N. Kostylev is immortalized on a memorial plaque in the park of the Palace of Pioneers of the city of Kirov .
• The name of the Hero of the Soviet Union A.N. Kostylev is Peskovskaya Secondary School No. 4 in the village of Peskovka, Omutninsky District, Kirov Region.
• A street in the village of Peskovka, Omutninsky District, Kirov Region, is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union A.N. Kostylev.

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• Public electronic document bank “The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (neopr.) . Archived March 13, 2012. No in the database 150016837 (neopr.) . Archived on September 22, 2012. 80602168 (neopr.) . Archived on September 22, 2012.

• Kostylev, Alexander Nikolaevich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Kostylev Alexander Nikolaevich (neopr.) . az-libr.ru. Archived on September 22, 2012.
• Scorched by the war. Memoirs of the Hero of the Soviet Union A.N. Kostylev (Neopr.) . Archived on September 22, 2012.
• Peskovskaya Secondary School No. 4 of the Omutninsky District of the Kirov Region Virtual Museum (Neopr.) . Archived on September 22, 2012.
• Air Force Research Institute. A.N. Kostylev (neopr.) .