Rosenfeld, Anatoly Adolfovich

Anatoly Adolfovich Rosenfeld was born on June 17, 1896 into a peasant family in the Valka district of the Livonia province .

At the end of the 1st Kazan real school, he entered the Imperial Moscow Technical School .

• 05/31/1915 - entered the service as an “ordinary hunter” as a volunteer 1st rank in the 1st reserve telegraph battalion, enlisted in the 3rd company. He was assigned to the School of War Aviation of the Imperial Moscow Aeronautical Society.
• 11/05/1915 - graduated from Theoretical courses of aviation and passed the established exam at the aviation school for the rank of reserve warrant officer.
• 11/30/1915 - "dismissed from the Imperial Moscow Technical School for non-payment of fees."
• 04/21/1916 - Anatoly Rosenfeld passed the exam for the title of pilot on a Farman-type airplane.
• 07/03/1916 - graduated from the School of War Aviation of the Imperial Moscow Aeronautical Society.
• From 07/12/1916 - junior officer of the 1st corps aviation detachment .
• On 08/08/1916 - the head of the weapons and firearms of the detachment.
• On December 13, 1916, he temporarily performed the affairs of the head of the detachment wireless telegraph.
• From 12/14/1916 - temporarily performed the affairs of the adjutant of the detachment.
• 12/28/1916 - during the flight, he received a severe frostbite from the cold.
• On January 13, 1917, he was an assistant to the head of the detachment wireless telegraph .
• 03.03.1917 - together with warrant officer E. M. Thomson, he shot down a German plane, "which crashed in our location near the Zalesye station."
• 10.29.1917 - during a flight from metro Radoshkovichi to metro Ostrovka to a new location of the detachment, it crashed. It was considered missing . As it turned out later, Anatoly Rosenfeld was captured by the Germans, having made an emergency landing in the vicinity of Minsk .
• After Russia left the war, in November 1918, as a result of the exchange of prisoners of war, he returned to Russia.
• 05/08/1919 - Anatoly Rosenfeld was called up for service in the Red Army.
• 12/25/1919 - enrolled in the Division of Aviation Specialists. He worked as a tester in the laboratory of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Section at the Supreme Economic Council, later transformed into the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI).
• In 1920, "he was sentenced by the People's Court to 5 years imprisonment on probation for stealing state property."
• In 1930-1936 he worked at the Central Institute of Aircraft Engine Engineering , from January 1936 - at the plant No. 22 of the People’s Commissariat of the Aviation Industry, holding the post of deputy chief of the technical bureau of the plant.
• Since 1938 he was a military engineer of the 2nd rank.
• On August 7, 1940, Rosenfeld was arrested by the NKVD of the USSR “on suspicion of involvement in the crash of a high-speed dive bomber No. 2/1 ( Design Bureau of N. N. Polikarpov ), which resulted in the death of the crew”. He was charged with official negligence. By the decision of the military tribunal of the Moscow military district of February 12, 1941 he was acquitted.

Then he worked as a senior engineer at Plant No. 156 of the Ministry of Aviation Industry (A.N. Tupolev Design Bureau).

• Private - 05/31/1915.
• Junior non-commissioned officer - 09/22/1915.
• Warrant Officer - 06/03/1916.
• Second Lieutenant - 10/06/1917.
• Military pilot - 03/05/1917.

• He was awarded the Russian Orders of St. Stanislav of the 3rd degree with swords and a bow (Order for the 2nd Army No. 334 dated 10/28/1916 "for a number of excellent reconnaissance missions from July 31 to August 22, 1916") ; St. Anna of the 3rd degree with swords and a bow (order of the 10th army No. 537 of 03/31/1917); St. Anna of the 4th degree with the inscription "For Bravery" (order on the armies of the Western Front No. 2044 dated 08/22/1917 "for the fact that from January 1 to March 20, 1917, with obvious danger to of life, made a series of courageous reconnaissance of the enemy’s location, with a total duration of 49 hours 15 minutes, on the 3rd d with the actual artillery, rifle and machine gun fire of the enemy, valiantly and bravely carrying out the tasks assigned to him: 1) repeatedly entered the battle (10th, 17th February and March 3rd of this year) with aircraft superior in speed and armament and the enemy into fleeing; 2) conducted reconnaissance of the enemy rear, as well as photographing its location, thus giving the infantry and artillery units the opportunity to more successfully fulfill their combat missions and with minimal losses ”); St. George 4th degree (by order of the 10th Army No. 1051 of 09/01/1917 "because on March 3, 1917, attacking near the camp. Zalesye, an enemy aircraft armed with two machine guns entered with him battle and shot him down with machine gun fire, and the enemy plane fell to the ground with a stone and crashed ”).
• He was also awarded the Soviet Order of the Red Star (09/02/1945) and the medal "For the Defense of Moscow" (05/01/1944).

• On March 3, 1917, warrant officers E. Thomson on a Newpor-XI aircraft (No. 1132) and warrant officer A. Rosenfeld in a fighter of the same type (No. 1033) shot down a German aircraft, "which crashed at our location near Zalesye station." During this sortie, both aviators were awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree.
• In the early 1940s, after the crash of the VIT-2 prototype aircraft, Rosenfeld was arrested for about a year, but later released without revealing his guilt. When the Germans approached Moscow at the beginning of the war, the factory received orders to burn all experimental vehicles. Rosenfeld with a factory pilot managed to save the most valuable car, surpassing it in Kazan . Then he returned to Moscow and evacuated the equipment of the plant in the same Kazan. During the war, his family also lived in Kazan.

• Aviators - Knights of the Order of St. George and St. George’s Weapons during the First World War of 1914-1918: Biographical Reference / Comp. M.S. Neshkin, V.M. Shabanov. - M: “Russian Political Encyclopedia” (ROSSPEN), 2006. - 360 p., Ill.
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• He was buried in Columbaria No. 1a of the New Don Cemetery.