Lunts, Boris Grigorievich

Boris Grigorievich Lunts was born on May 8, 1908 in the city of Dresden - the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony of the German Empire (now the city is the administrative center of the state of the Free State of Saxony of the Federal Republic of Germany ) in a family of political emigrants. Mother is Russian, father is Jewish. In Russia since 1915. He lived in Moscow . Before being drafted for military service he graduated from the rabfak .

B. G. Lunts was called up to the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army in 1926. In 1927, he graduated from the Leningrad Military Theoretical School of the Red Air Fleet , in 1928 - the 2nd military school of pilots of the Red Air Fleet . He served in the Far East as an aircraft motorist. In 1929, Boris Grigoryevich participated in the armed conflict on the Sino-Eastern Railway as part of the Special Far Eastern Army .

In 1930, B. G. Lunts left the reserve and entered the Balashov Flight School of the Civil Air Fleet , after which in 1931 he worked as a pilot in the 14th transport detachment of the Ukrainian Civil Air Fleet Directorate in Kharkov . With the outbreak of World War II, B. G. Lunts was mobilized as a civilian specialist and at the end of June 1941 was sent to the Kiev special air group of the Civil Air Fleet . He served as the co-pilot and commander of the PS-84 ship as part of the 1st and 8th detachments. Fulfilling special tasks of the command to drop assaults in the enemy's deep rear ( Prague , Ploiesti , Rivne , Gomel ), transport command personnel of the Red Army, deliver ammunition, mail and medicines, products for the besieged Leningrad, Boris Grigoryevich completed 125 sorties and was awarded the Order of the Krasny Order of Krasny .

In April 1942, B. G. Lunts was again called up for military service. He was promoted to senior lieutenant and sent to the 101st transport aviation regiment of the 1st transport aviation division , where he was appointed to the post of commander of the ship Li-2 . In May - June 1942, he participated in an operation to supply the 2nd shock army that was surrounded, during which he dropped about 15 tons of ammunition and products behind enemy lines. On June 6, 1942, the plane of Senior Lieutenant B. G. Lunts was shot down by German fighters, but the ship's commander brought the burning car to its destination and dumped the cargo in a given square. Only after this the crew left the burning plane. Boris Grigoryevich returned to his unit and, despite multiple burns, continued to participate in the operation on another plane.

On July 28, 1942, the 101st Aviation Transport Regiment was transformed into the 101st Long-Range Aviation Regiment as part of the 1st Aviation Division ^[2] of the USSR Long-Range Aviation . From August 1, 1942, the regiment focused on serving the interests of the Central headquarters of the partisan movement , and later the republican headquarters. Boris Grigoryevich made 156 sorties to partisans deep behind enemy lines in the areas of settlements Hinel , Ovruch , Kiev , Chernigov , Mozyr , Bryansk , Novozybkov , Osipovichi , Slutsk , Olevsk , Borisov , Bobruisk , Mglin , Polotsk , 56 of them with airfields. During these sorties, he delivered more than 80 tons of cargo to partisan formations and evacuated more than 500 wounded to the rear. On September 29, 1942, Senior Lieutenant B. G. Lunts landed at the airfield in the area where the partisans fought with punitive detachments. After unloading the aircraft, at the request of the command of the partisan formation, the crew several times lifted the aircraft into the air and launched bombing strikes against enemy forces. When flying to the partisan areas, Boris Grigorievich was often assigned to develop new partisan airfields, such as Smelyzh , Rechitsa , Dubrovka ( Ovruchsky District ), Lake Chervonoe and Kozhushki ^[3] .

As a long-range bomber, B. G. Lunts participated in raids on large enemy railway junctions, such as Kursk , Orel , Vyazma , Rzhev , Shchigry and Smolensk , and bombed the crossing of the Don and the accumulation of enemy manpower and equipment in the Stalingrad direction. By the summer of 1943, he had gone from a private pilot to the squadron commander. Was promoted to captain . By July 1943, Boris Grigorievich made 323 sorties, of which 229 at night bombed military-industrial facilities, manpower and military equipment of the enemy, transporting ammunition and other cargo to partisans, landing paratroopers in the enemy rear, and evacuating the wounded.

On July 27, 1943, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Captain Lunts Boris Grigorievich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. By the end of 1943, Boris Grigoryevich received the rank of major. In January 1944, during the operation “January Thunder”, the squadron of Major B. G. Lunts made 98 sorties in the interests of the Leningrad Front to bombard enemy resistance nodes, including Krasnoye Selo ^[4] . Then she participated in raids on military facilities and infrastructure in Finland . In May 1944, Colonel V.S. Grizodubova, commander of the 101st Long-Range Aviation Regiment, was replaced by Lieutenant Colonel S.S. Zapylenov, who soon appointed Boris Grigorievich as his deputy. In this position, Boris Grigoryevich was actively involved in the training of young pilots, having trained at least 19 ship commanders. On November 5, 1944, the 101st Long-Range Aviation Regiment was transformed into the 31st Guards Long-Range Aviation Regiment ( 7th Long-Range Aviation Corps ), and on December 26, 1944 it was renamed the 31st Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment . Until the end of the war, the regiment fought in the 1st Bomber Aviation Division of the 3rd Guards Bomber Aviation Corps of the 18th Air Army . Guard Major B. G. Lunts ended the battle in the skies of Germany , completing a total of 403 successful sorties during the war.

In May 1946, the Guard Major B. G. Lunts retired. From 1946 to 1963, Boris Grigoryevich worked as a test pilot at the NII-17 MRP (Scientific Research Institute of the Ministry of Radio Industry). Then, until May 1973, Boris Grigoryevich was a test pilot at the Rise of the Research and Development Test Center ^[5] . From 1973 to 1977 he worked as an engineer at the NII-17 MCI. After retiring, Boris Grigorievich lived in Moscow. He died on February 5, 1997. He was buried at the Kuntsevsky cemetery of the capital.

• Medal "Golden Star" (07/27/1943);
• Order of Lenin (07/27/1943);
• two orders of the Red Banner (02/12/1942; 08/19/1942);
• Order of Alexander Nevsky (03.30.1944);
• three orders of World War I degree (12/31/1943; 07/20/1945; 04/06/1985);
• Order of the Red Star (11/03/1944).
• Medals, including:

Medal "Partisan of World War II degree" ;

Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" ;

medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" .

• Honored Test Pilot of the USSR (1964).

• Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1987.- T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN comp., Reg. RCP No. 87-95382.
• Forever in the heart of the people. - 3rd ed., Rev. and add. / Editorial: I.P. Shamyakin (Ch. ed.) et al. - Minsk: Belorussian Soviet Encyclopedia, 1984. - P. 314. - 607 p.
• Simonov A.A. Honored Testers of the USSR. - Moscow: Aviamir, 2009. - S. 126-127. - 384 p. - ISBN 978-5-904399-05-4 .

• Public electronic document bank “The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (neopr.) . Date of treatment October 29, 2015. Archived March 13, 2012.

Hero of the Soviet Union (Neopr.) . Date of treatment July 2, 2012. Archived on October 6, 2012.

Presentation to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (December 1942) (neopr.) . Date of treatment July 2, 2012. Archived on October 6, 2012.

Order of the Red Banner (02/12/1942) (neopr.) . Date of treatment July 2, 2012. Archived on October 6, 2012.

Presentation to the Order of the Red Banner (Neopr.) . Date of treatment July 2, 2012. Archived on October 6, 2012.

Order of Alexander Nevsky (neopr.) . Date of treatment July 2, 2012. Archived on October 6, 2012.

Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (1945) (neopr.) . Date of treatment July 2, 2012. Archived on October 6, 2012.

Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree (1985) (neopr.) . Date of treatment May 29, 2013. Archived May 29, 2013.

• Lunts, Boris Grigorievich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• 101 Guards Aviation Krasnoselsky Red Banner Long-Range Regiment. Ship commanders (neopr.) . Date of treatment January 21, 2012. Archived on October 6, 2012.
• Memoirs of B. G. Lunts. To partisan airfields (From the book “Aviation - to the Partisans 1941 - 1944”, Minsk, NARB, 2005) (neopr.) . Date of treatment July 2, 2012. Archived on October 6, 2012.
• Lunts Boris Grigorievich at www.az-libr.ru (neopr.) . Date of treatment July 2, 2012. Archived on October 6, 2012.