Chernyshev, Arkady Petrovich

Born on January 12, 1917 in the city of Orsk now in the Orenburg region . Russian. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1942. He graduated from the seven-year school. In the 1930s, he moved with his parents to the city of Moscow . He graduated from the school of factory apprenticeship. In 1935-1937 he worked as a tuner in Moscow Metrostroy. At the same time he was engaged in a flying club. He became a master of aerobatics on airplanes and gliders.

In 1937, he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to the aviation school by a Komsomol ticket. In 1939 he successfully graduated from the Naval Academy named after Levanevsky in the city of Nikolaev and arrived to serve in the aviation of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet.

In the battles of World War II from June 1941. The first two years he flew on a flying boat MBR-2 as part of the 15th separate marine reconnaissance squadron. The crew of Chernyshev provided combat work for a special-purpose air group that bombed Berlin from Saaremaa Island in August 1941. Participated in the defense of the Hanko Peninsula. On his boat he delivered ammunition, mail, and transported the wounded. Once Chernyshev, in charge of unloading his plane under enemy fire, asked a staff officer if it was known where the enemy’s battery was, shelling our positions. The officer showed on the map the area of ​​her location. Chernyshev flew into the indicated square and destroyed the battery.

In 1942, Chernyshev completed a number of special tasks in the interests of units fighting on the land front. At one of the sites, an attack was being prepared on the regiment of the Baltic sailors Margelov. Before the operation, the flying boat Chernysheva stormed the front edge of the Nazis from a machine gun, dropped a series of small fragmentation bombs, forced to lay fire to the enemy. Margelov's regiment knocked out the enemy from a fortified point. In total, in the first two years of the war, the pilot Chernyshev flew about 200 sorties on a flying boat.

In the summer of 1943 he arrived in the 1st mine torpedo aviation regiment as deputy commander of the 3rd Red Banner Squadron. He mastered the IL-4 torpedo bomber and soon became one of the best masters of bombing and torpedo strikes, mine installations on the fairways and enemy bases. Already in September, the pilot-guardsman was awarded the Order of the Red Banner . For the last three months of the 1943 guard, Captain Chernyshev made thirty-nine sorties - with torpedoes, mines, and bombs. In some flights, he laid mines on the fairways and exits from the enemy’s naval bases, in others he bombed fascist minefields, destroyed anti-submarine nets. The crews of our submarines skillfully used the "corridors" laid by Chernyshev.

By the end of 1943, the captain of the guard squadron, Captain Chernyshev, completed 223 sorties, sank 5 enemy transports and a patrol ship with a total displacement of 20,600 tons.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 22, 1944, Captain Chernyshev Arkady Petrovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal for exemplary execution of command tasks and courage and heroism in battles with the Nazi invaders of the guard.

After conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, Chernyshev with even greater combat activity sought and destroyed the enemy. March 26, 1944 the crew of Chernyshev did not return from combat sortie to the Gulf of Finland. It was probably shot down by a night fighter. By that time, the torpedo bomber made 262 sorties.

He was awarded the Order of Lenin , three orders of the Red Banner . In memory of the Hero, a memorial plaque was installed on the building of the council of the village of Borki, Vyborg district, Leningrad region . The ship is named after the Hero. In his homeland, in the city of Orsk, a street was named after him, a memorial plaque was installed on one of the houses, a bronze bust was installed in the park of Glory.

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Arkady Petrovich Chernyshev (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment June 13, 2014.