Syromyatnikov, Boris Pavlovich

Born March 28, 1910 in the village of Sidorovskoye in the family of a master jeweler. Russian. After graduating from a village school, Boris went to study at the school of FZU in the city of Privolzhsk, Ivanovo Region . Upon its completion, he began working as a weaver at a textile factory named after Rosa Luxemburg in the same city. In 1930 he entered the Ivanovo Construction College, graduated from 2 courses. Engaged in flying club.

In the Red Army since 1932. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1932. He graduated from the military aviation school of pilots in the city of Lugansk. After graduation, he served in the aviation units of the Air Force of the Black Sea Fleet for six years. He participated in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. He commanded a squadron, striking at ships and naval bases of the enemy. For courage and courage he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner .

Captain Syromyatnikov met the Great Patriotic War in the Baltic, as the commander of the SB bomber squadron of the 73rd diving bomber aviation regiment. Soon, the regiment was rearmed with a diving bomber Pe-2. Syromyatnikov’s squadron made a series of courageous and daring raids on the accumulations of armored units, transports and the enemy’s coastal defense battery, and in a month of fighting dropped 5328 kilograms of bombs on enemy heads. During the first 23 sorties, Syromyatnikov’s crew sank enemy vehicles with a displacement of 6,000 tons near Riga, destroyed the enemy train and a large number of tanks and vehicles in the Yakopils and Porkhov area at Ekenes station.

In March 1942, Syromyatnikov was approved as the commander of the 29th Bomber Aviation Regiment and awarded the military rank of "Major". In July of that year, together with the regiment transferred to the Northern Fleet. On responsible combat missions Syromyatnikov personally drove a group of dive bombers, showing an example of courage and courage to all personnel. In a short time, the pilots of the regiment sank seven enemy transports, shot down four fascist aircraft in air battles. Major Syromyatnikov made thirty-four sorties with the leading groups, participated in the sinking of three enemy transports with a total displacement of 13-14 thousand gross tons and was awarded the second Order of the Red Banner .

In the fall of 1942, Major Syromyatnikov was recalled to the rear to study. In 1943, he graduated with honors from advanced training courses for command personnel at the Yeysk Naval Aviation School named after Stalin. The certification noted: "May be the chief of staff of aviation regiments of all kinds of aviation." Since July 1943 he again commanded his regiment.

In October 1944 he was appointed commander of the 9th Guards mine and torpedo aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet. Under his leadership, 40 crews of torpedo bombers were retrained and put into operation. During the year of hostilities under the command of the Guard Lieutenant Colonel Syromyatnikov, the regiment carried out six hundred twenty-three sorties. The regiment pilots sunk twenty-five enemy transports with a total displacement of one hundred twenty-three thousand gross tons, three tankers with a displacement of twenty-two thousand gross tons, two submarines, two destroyers, six patrol ships, one minesweeper, eight motobots, one schooner, three coasters. Sixteen explosions, accompanied by large fires, were caused by bombing attacks on naval bases. The commander was awarded the third Order of the Red Banner .

By October 1944, the Guard Lieutenant Colonel Syromyatnikov B.P. made 71 sorties. Participated in the sinking of 3 enemy transports. Immortal feat committed in one of the battles during the Petsamo-Kirkenes offensive operation of the Soviet troops.

On October 16, 1944, the Northern Fleet aviation attacked several times a convoy leaving the Norwegian port of Kirkenes. The final strike in the area of ​​Cape Hibergneset was delivered by two six torpedo bombers: one from the 9th Guards mine torpedo regiment and the other from the 36th mine torpedo regiment. The actions of torpedo bombers covered 15 fighters. In this battle, the enemy lost 2 vehicles, a patrol ship, a minesweeper, a boat and 5 aircraft.

Three kilometers from the target, an enemy shell hit the left engine of the aircraft of the guard of lieutenant colonel Syromyatnikov B.P. The car caught fire, but the regiment commander continued the attack, bringing other vehicles to the target. When the distance to the transports decreased to 500 meters, Syromyatnikov’s plane fired two torpedoes. Guided by the skilled hand of an experienced pilot, they destroyed a transport of six thousand gross tons. A plane engulfed in flames crashed into the water, the crew died, having fulfilled military duty to the end.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 5, 1944, for the courage and heroism shown in battles with the Nazi invaders, the guard Lieutenant Colonel Syromyatnikov Boris Pavlovich was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union .

He was awarded the Order of Lenin , three orders of the Red Banner , and medals.

By order of the USSR naval minister dated May 8, 1950, the guard Lieutenant Colonel Syromyatnikov was forever enlisted in the lists of the personnel of one of the units of the Air Force of the Red Banner Northern Fleet.

The bust of B.P. Syromyatnikov, among the 53 North Sea pilots awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union , is installed on the Alley of Heroes-Aviators of the Northern Fleet, opened on October 29, 1968 on Preobrazhensky Street in the village of Safonovo ZATO, the city of Severomorsk, Murmansk Region . The surname of B. P. Syromyatnikov is engraved on the stone slabs of the memorial, including 898 names of those whose graves are not on the earth — in memory of pilots, navigators, radio operators of the Red Banner Northern Fleet, who died at sea in 1941-1945, opened on August 17 1986 on the shore of the Kola Bay in the village of Safonovo. A memorial plaque was erected in the homeland of the Hero in the village of Sidorovskoye, and in May 1985 a monument was unveiled. His name is engraved on the slabs of the Heroes Memorial in the city of Ivanovo.

A memorial plaque in memory of Syromyatnikov was erected by the Russian Military Historical Society on the building of the professional lyceum No. 25 of the city of Furmanov , where he studied.

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Boris Pavlovich Syromyatnikov (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment December 27, 2013.