Anisimov, Alexander Frolovich

He was born (November 16 (28) (according to other sources, July 16 (28)) in 1897 in the village of Vzdrye of the Medvedsky volost of the Novgorod district of the Novgorod province ^[1] .

In 1912 he graduated from the four- year city ​​school in Novgorod . He worked as a mechanical driver.

In 1914, drafted into the Russian army. Participated in the First World War - served aircraft.

In 1915 he graduated from the motor class at the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd .

In February 1915 - October 1916 - mechanic of the 4th fighter detachment, senior non-commissioned officer . In the air battles of the First World War, the number of pilots quickly decreased and the tsarist government allowed to train pilots from the most gifted soldiers. So Alexander Anisimov became a cadet of the Petrograd flight school.

Member of the October Revolution of 1917 . He did not graduate from flight school.

In 1918 he joined the Red Army . He participated in the Civil War :

• in May 1918 - 1919 he served as the senior aircraft engine-man of the 5th Socialist air squad on the Eastern Front , fought with units of the Czechoslovak Corps ;
• in 1919 - November 1920, he served as an aircraft motorist of the 1st Petrograd squadron, fought on the Western Front with the troops of N. N. Yudenich and the Polish army.

In 1922 he graduated from the Yegoryevsk military theoretical school, was transferred in 1923 to the Kachin Higher Aviation School of Pilots ^[2] , then to the Moscow Higher Aviation School, and finally in 1924 to the Serpukhov Aviation School of Aerial Firing and Bombing ^{[3 ]} .

Then he served in the aviation fighter units of the Air Force . In July 1928 he was transferred to flight test work at the Air Force Research Institute . In June 1931 he was appointed commander of the detachment. He participated in the tests of I-4 , I-5 and other aircraft. December 3, 1931 on the I-4 fighter participated in the first flight during the tests of "Link-1".

Since 1933 he served as a test pilot of the Ostekhbyuro P.I. Grokhovsky . He carried out a series of discharges of various objects with TB-1 , tested the AVP-3 autopilot, designed by engineer of the Air Force Research Institute I. A. Timofeev and air force listener A. A. Lusis.

He died on October 11, 1933 during an indicative flight on an I-5 aircraft.

Buried in Moscow .

The closest friend of V. Chkalov ^[4]

Air crash circumstances

On the I-5 aircraft in close proximity to the ground aerobatics were used, used in aerial combat. Filming was conducted for a training film for the Air Force fighter pilots. October 11, 1933 should be completed work with cameramen. Anisimov made two dives with the conclusion by the immelman of the aircraft from the peak. The third time, the conclusion was unsuccessful, and the plane fell to the ground with its wheels upside down.

The emergency commission after investigating the disaster identified the cause - the technical malfunction of the aircraft: the foot pedal of the steering wheel of the turns broke, without which it was impossible to turn the I-5 into a normal position at low altitude.

According to another version of the test pilot Ostekhbyuro M.N. Kaminsky , a tragic accident occurred. Anisimov made “dead loops” for filming. When leaving the third loop, near the ground, avoiding a collision with another moving aircraft at the airfield, he tried to conduct a rescue maneuver, but did not have enough height, and Anisimov’s plane turned over through a screw and crashed into the ground.

• Anisimov Alexander Frolovich
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