Timofei Terentievich Romashkin ( April 15, 1919 , Marchenka , Vitebsk province , RSFSR - January 8, 1954 [comm. 1] , Tallinn , USSR ) - flight mechanic of the USSR Civil Air Fleet , participant in the Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars. Hero of the Soviet Union ( 1954 , posthumously) [1] .
| Timofey Terentyevich Romashkin | |||||
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| Belor. Tsіmafey Tsyarentsievіch Ramashkіn | |||||
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| Date of Birth | April 15, 1919 | ||||
| Place of Birth | Marchenky , Vitebsk province , RSFSR , now Gorodok district , Vitebsk region , Belarus | ||||
| Date of death | January 8, 1954 ( 34) | ||||
| Place of death | Tallinn , Estonian SSR , USSR | ||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||
| Type of army | civil Aviation | ||||
| Years of service | 1938 - 1954 | ||||
| Position | flight engineer | ||||
| Battles / wars | Soviet-Finnish War The Great Patriotic War | ||||
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Biography
Born on April 15, 1919 in the village of Marchenki, Vitebsk province (now Gorodok district , Vitebsk region , Belarus ). By nationality - Belarusian . He graduated from 7 classes of high school, then worked at a brick factory. For some time he lived in Severodvinsk [1] .
In the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army since 1938. He graduated from the Ulyanovsk Aviation Technical School , after graduation he became an airplane technician, in 1940 he was transferred to the reserve, worked in the civil aviation of Leningrad . He took part in the Soviet-Finnish War [1] .
With the outbreak of World War II, he was drafted into the army. Since July 1941 - flight mechanic of the 5th separate aviation regiment of civil aviation, made several sorties in the skies of Karelia and Finland [1] [2] . In November 1943 he was awarded the medal “For Courage” , the order noted that the mechanic of the aviation transport link of the regiment, sergeant Romashkin, provided 625 sorties, of which 101 departed at night behind enemy lines for bombing German targets, without failure of the material part [2] .
After the war, he returned to civil aviation, worked as a flight mechanic for an Estonian airline's Li-2 aircraft [2] . In 1947 he joined the CPSU [3] .
On the morning of January 8, 1954, Li-2 with five passengers on board [4] operated a flight along the route Tallinn - Minsk - Leningrad . The plane gained altitude and lay down on a given course. At the time of distribution of passenger magazines and newspapers, an armed man in the form of an air force without shoulder straps and a woman attacked the crew with the aim of hijacking an airplane. Threatening with weapons, they tried to tie the crew members, but Romashkin rushed at the woman, after which the man opened fire on him with two pistols [1] .
Four bullets hit the flight engineer. Crew members (ship commander I. Garanin, A. Kalinichev and V. Gladky) twisted the attackers, and the bleeding Romashkin received first aid [1] .
The plane returned to Tallinn, Romashkin was taken to the hospital, where, despite the efforts of doctors, he soon died [1] .
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 9, 1954, for the courage and selflessness shown during the arrest of bandits, Romashkin was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union . The remaining crew members were awarded the orders of the Red Star [1] .
Romashkin was buried at the Military cemetery in Tallinn [1] .
Rewards
- Hero of the Soviet Union (decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 9, 1954 , the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal ; posthumous ) [1] ;
- Order of the Badge of Honor [1] ;
- USSR medals, including:
- Medal "For Courage" (November 15, 1943) [2] .
Memory
In 1965, a monument to Romashkin was erected in Minsk in a park next to the Minsk-1 airport building. The sculptor is Grigory Nikolayevich Postnikov , the architect is Georgy Vladimirovich Zaborsky [5] . Monuments to Romashkin are also erected in the town of Vyana-Jõesuu in Estonia and the village of Marchenki [1] [4] .
Streets in the Minsk district Sokol and Kharkov bear the name Romashkina ( Kharkiv International Airport is located on this street) [5] .
Notes
- Comments
- ↑ On the tombstone, another date is indicated - January 9, 1954; according to some reports, he died the day after the incident with the seizure of an airplane.
- Sources
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Kargapoltsev S. Romashkin, Timofey Terentyevich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Award documents for the “For Courage” medal in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” ( TsAMO archive materials, f. 33 , op. 717037 ) ..
- ↑ Heroes of the Soviet Union, 1988 , p. 372.
- ↑ 1 2 Maxim Osipov. The fateful flight 365 . Soviet Belarus (October 3, 2014). Date of treatment November 2, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 Timofei Romashkin . Website of secondary school No. 194 of Minsk. Date of treatment November 3, 2015.
Literature
- Garanin I. Interrupted flight // Winged tribe (Memoirs of aviators of three generations) / Editor-compiler A.I. Voinov. - M .: Military Publishing , 1962 .-- 152 p. - 30,000 copies.
- Romashkin Timofey Terentyevich // 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 .
- Memory: Garadotsky district: G_st.-duck. chronicle garadoў i rayonaў Belarusі / On S. І. Sadoska: Red. feces N. A. Burunova іnsh .; Mast. E.E. Zhakevich. - Mn. : Belarus, 2004 .-- S. 289-690. - 894 p. - 2500 copies. - ISBN 985-01-0546-1 .
Links
Romashkin, Timofey Terentyevich . Site " Heroes of the country ".