Meri Hafizovna Avidzba ( 1917 - 1986 ) - the first pilot of Abkhazia [1] , navigator of the 46th guards lightly bomber night air regiment of the 4th Air Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, retired guard lieutenant .
| Mary Hafizovna Avidzba | |||||||||||||||
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| Date of Birth | 1917 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Abkhazia , Russian Empire | ||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 1986 | ||||||||||||||
| A place of death | Sukhumi city, Abkhaz ASSR , Georgian SSR , USSR | ||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||||||||
| Type of army |  Air Force | ||||||||||||||
| Rank | Lieutenant  | ||||||||||||||
| Part | 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment | ||||||||||||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||||||
| Awards and prizes |
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 | Mary Avidzba and Zoya Parfenova, 1968 |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 Memory
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Born in 1917 in Abkhazia.
Graduated from Sukhumi flying club and Bataysky flying school. In the Sukhumi flying club, her mentor and teacher was Viktor Argun , who worked as the head of the flight unit. In 1939, she became a cadet at the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad .
After the start of World War II, she filed an application for admission as a volunteer to the Red Army. In the army - from December 1942 until the victory over Germany. She was trained at a fighter flight school in Perm . Fought in the 4th Air Army on the North Caucasus, 4th Ukrainian and 2nd Belorussian fronts. She took part in the defense of the Caucasus, the liberation of the Crimea, Belarus, Poland, the defeat of the enemy in Germany. In 1944, transferred to another aviation regiment.
During the hostilities, Mary Avidzba made 477 sorties, dropped 63 thousand kilograms of deadly cargo on the enemy.
After the war, due to a bruise that affected only after the war, she was paralyzed for 7 years. Then there was a successful operation and a corset.
While retired, Avidzba did a lot of community work. She was elected to the Supreme Council of Abkhazia. For several years she was chairman of the parent committee of the Sukhum Abkhaz tenth secondary school named after Lakoba. She did a lot of work on the patriotic education of youth, on the propaganda of the heroic traditions of Soviet aviation.
She died in 1986 in Abkhazia.
Rewards
- two orders of World War I degree (11/05/1944, 04/06/1985)
- Order of the Patriotic War II degree (02.21.1943)
- Medals (including the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus" (1944))
- For the patriotic education of the younger generation, M. Kh. Avidzba was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of Abkhazia and thanks to the Ministry of Education of the Republic.
Memory
- Mary Hafizovna Avidzba dedicated his poem to the national poet of Abkhazia D.I. Gulia .
- In Sukhum, a memorial plaque was erected on the house on Prospekt Mira, where she lived. [2]
Notes
- ↑ Sukhumi airport
- ↑ Memory. Mary Avidzba - the first pilot of Abkhazia (inaccessible link)