Ragozin, Nikolai Alexandrovich

• Born June 30, 1891 in Tsarskoye Selo . In the family of the hero of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), Lieutenant General Alexander Nikolayevich Ragozin, commander of the 8th East Siberian Rifle Division, from 1904-1907 head of the Officer Rifle School in Oranienbaum ;
• 1909 - graduated from Emperor Alexander II Cadet Corps ;
• 1911 - released from the Marine Corps enlisted in the 1st Baltic Fleet crew as a naval midshipman ;
• December 6, 1911 - the battleship Eustache the rank of midshipman was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet ;
• November 28, 1912 - appointed acting commander of the 1st company of the crew of this ship ;
• March 12, 1913 - (by Order of the Black Sea Maritime Forces and Ports No. 164, he was appointed to the Black Sea Communications Service to take a flight course on a seaplane (reconnaissance);
  • August 25 - successfully passed the exam for the title of pilot ( Sevastopol n. Kilen Bay);
  • September 7 - seconded to take theoretical courses of aviation them. V.V. Zakharova at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute ;
• July 1, 1914 - received the title of sea pilot;
  • Since August - took part in the tests of hydroairanes of the Curtiss system ^[1] .

World War I

• October 16, 1914 - carried out reconnaissance in search of the battle cruiser "Keben" , which fired on Sevastopol in the early morning of this day;
  • November 24 - took off on a flying boat "Curtiss" No. 19, together with the non-commissioned office. Repair in search of the Breslau cruiser, after the discovery of which it was subjected to fire.
• January 1, 1915 - promoted to lieutenant ;
• 1916 June to December - commander of the 3rd naval squadron of aviation of the Black Sea Fleet;
  • On December 3, on M-11, a Russian boat ^[2] entered into battle with a German bomber, inflicted a number of injuries on him and forced him to land at sea, 8 miles from Cape Olinka . Despite the eight bullet holes received, he arrived safely at the base;
• 1917, January - commander of the 5th detachment of the Air Division of the Black Sea Fleet;
  • June - commander of the 1st Division of the same division;
  • December - Acting as an observing officer at the plant of V. A. Lebedev in Taganrog and proposed his own original design of a hydroairplane.

Workers and Peasants Army

• June 8, 1919 - enlisted in the Department of Naval Aviation at the Office of the Soviet Ukrainian Air Force and was appointed assistant for organizational and combat operations at the Naval School of Aerobatics;
  • September 26 - as a pilot of the hydroaviation squadron of the Dnieper military flotilla arrived in Petrograd , where he was appointed to the post of fighter pilot in the Airborne Special Purpose Brigade; ^[3]
  • October 15 - a plane manned by Ragozin, under unclear circumstances, “crashed” in the Sestroretsk area, the pilot remained unharmed.
  • On October 28, during the next reconnaissance operation in the Gatchina region on the “ Newpore-23 ” ^[4], Lieutenant Ragozin, together with the naval pilot B. A. Pilipovsky, flew away and did not return, “considered missing, that is, flew away in an unknown direction”; ^[five]

White Guard

• Then, according to the name-book “History of the White Movement and Emigration”, the traces of the legendary pilot are already tracked in the south of Russia, where he commands the 2nd Hydro-Aviation Unit ( VSYUR );
• March 28, 1920 - by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the All-Union Federal League of Justice, No. 14, promoted to Senior Lieutenant ^[6]
  • June 20 - 2nd hydroaviation unit as part of the 2nd aviation unit of the Black Sea Fleet. On the eve of the evacuation of Crimea, he held the position of the watchman of the Kronstadt floating workshop.

Emigration

• November 14, 1920 - emigrated to Bizerte ( Tunisia ) (the site of the last refuge of the Russian squadron ), then, together with his wife and four-year-old son Alexander, went to Ain Dragam camp ;
• Until the spring of 1922 in Ain Dragama he made a living as a laborer, then as a driver on tobacco plantations.

Spanish Civil War

• 1922 - Spain, under the name Ragozin-Deyman, served in aviation, with the rank of corporal of the Foreign Legion, General Franco ;
• 1922-1927: participated in the Moroccan war (reconnaissance, surveillance, communications, assault, day and night bombing, sanitary evacuations), for "military merits" he was promoted to non-commissioned officer , then to lieutenant .

At the end of the fighting, he was engaged in teaching and instructor work at aviation schools;

• June 18, 1936: delivered General Francisco Franco from Tetuan to Seville on his plane. After that, for some time he was his personal pilot.
• 1936-1937 - was included in the Spanish Air Force African contingent;
• December 14, 1936 - received the rank of captain (with seniority from July 1, 1934).
• 1936-1939 - participant in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Phalangists ; He flew on the aircraft "Breguet-19" , "Fokker F.VII" ^[7] and "Savoy SM-81 . " He flew as part of an Italian group, perhaps he also interacted with the German pilots of the Condor legion , since among his many awards there appeared the Order of the German Eagle with swords.
• From October 1937 to August 1939 - was in the south of Spain. In addition to participating in the hostilities, from November 1936 he taught at the Tripulantes flight school and was an instructor in aviation navigational affairs in Tablad and Malaga .
• After the war, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel by General Franco, was awarded a great star for 35 years of excellent service (counting the war year for two), received the title of Honorary Pilot of Spain, Germany and Italy. Ragozin’s track record recorded 2,400 flight hours, of which 1,465 were combat.
• 1940-1941 - head of the aviation school in Thiers .
• Nikolai Alexandrovich Ragozin died on the 67th year of his life on the island of Mallorca (Spain) on September 21, 1957.

• Order of St. Stanislav 3rd Art. (December 6, 1914);
• swords and bow to the existing order of St. Stanislav 3rd art. (01/10/1915);
• St. George's Arms (05/04/1915);
• Order of St. Anne 4th Art. with the inscription "For courage" (1915);
• Order of St. Vladimir , 4th art. with swords and bow (01.24.1916);
• Order of St. Anne 3rd Art. with swords and bow (04/18/1916);
• Order of St. Stanislav , 2nd art. with swords (04/31/1916);
• Order of St. Anne , 2nd art. with swords (1916).

• Cross "Military Merit" (Spain) - 5 times;
• Cross "Maria Christina" with swords;
• African Medal of Military Merit;
• Moroccan Order of Medahnia;
• Order of the German Eagle with swords;
• A star with swords;
• Cross "For military valor" (Italy).

• Ragozin’s son, Alexander Nikolayevich, following his father’s example, fought in the ranks of Franco aviation in the summer of 1936, built an “air bridge” between the main group of nationalists and the Audyar monastery surrounded by republicans. At the end of 1936, he was wounded in one of the sorties. During the Second World War, he fought as part of the Spanish units operating on the side of Germany on the Eastern Front. After the war, Ragozin Jr. continued his aviation service and by 1955 received the rank of lieutenant .

Certification

• G.F. Petrov. “Seaplanes and ekranoplanes of Russia”
• A. B. Grigoriev. Albatrosses
• Shavrov, V. B. The history of aircraft designs in the USSR until 1938 . - 3rd. - M .: Mechanical Engineering, 1985 .-- 752 p.
• The Hand of Providence N. A. Ragozin. Spain, 1954 (Memoirs).

• V.V. Krestyannikov Officers of the Black Sea Fleet - St. George Knights of the 1st World War
• “Aviation and Ballooning Before the Second World War”
• N. A. Kuznetsov. "The Russian Fleet In Chuzhbin"
• "Aviation until 1917" (inaccessible link)
• N. A. Ragozin (photo)