Nikolai Fedorovich Makarenko (May 1, 1916 - January 12, 1998) - commander of the 153rd fighter aviation regiment of the 5th mixed aviation division of the 23rd army of the Leningrad Front , major . Hero of the Soviet Union .
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| Date of Birth | May 1, 1916 | ||||||||||
| Place of Birth | with. Sennoye , Kharkov province , Russian Empire, now Bogodukhovsky district , Kharkov region | ||||||||||
| Date of death | January 12, 1998 (81 years old) | ||||||||||
| Place of death | Chkalovsky settlement , Shchelkovo , Moscow region , Russia | ||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||||||
| Type of army | aviation | ||||||||||
| Years of service | 1935-1970 | ||||||||||
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| Part | during the Great Patriotic War:
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| Battles / wars | Polish campaign of the Red Army Soviet-Finnish War The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||
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Biography
He was born on May 1, 1916 in the village of Sennoye , now Bogodukhovsky district of Kharkov region , in a peasant family. He graduated from 7 classes. He studied at the Izyum medical college of the Kharkov region. In the Red Army since 1935. In 1938 he graduated from the Chuguev Military Aviation Pilot School. He participated in the campaign of the Red Army in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus in 1939 , the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940.
He met the Great Patriotic War as a flight commander. He fought on the Leningrad and Voronezh fronts.
By December 1941, the commander of the squadron of the 153rd fighter aviation regiment ( 5th mixed aviation division , 23rd army , Leningrad front) Major N.F. Makarenko made 325 sorties, shot down 10 in 11 air battles and destroyed 2 on the ground enemy aircraft. In one of the battles he was seriously wounded.
On February 10, 1943, for the courage and military valor shown in battles with enemies, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
In 1950 he graduated with honors from the Air Force Engineering Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky . In 1970, Colonel N.F. Makarenko went into reserve. He lived in the city of Shchelkovo, Moscow Region . He worked at an aircraft factory in Moscow .
He died on January 12, 1998. He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Leonikh .
Rewards
- The Gold Star Medal (No. 823; 02/10/1943);
- two orders of Lenin (12/20/1941; 02/10/1943);
- two orders of the Red Banner (09/13/1943; 12/30/1956);
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree (04/06/1985);
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (06/17/1961);
- Order of the Red Star (11/15/1950);
- medals, including:
- medal "For Military Merit" (11/06/1945);
- medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" .
Memory
- In the village of Chkalovsky on the house where the Hero lived from 1970 to 1998, a memorial plaque was installed (Institutskaya St., 28).
- The name of Nikolai Makarenko was assigned to the MiG-23P from the 23rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.
Literature
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov . - M .: Military Publishing , 1988. - T. 2 / Love - Yashchuk /. - 863 s. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-00536-2 .
Links
- Makarenko, Nikolai Fedorovich . Site " Heroes of the country ".