Mironov, Sergey Ivanovich (Hero of the Soviet Union)

Sergey Mironov was born on July 23, 1914 in Zhitomir . He graduated from the 6th grade of the school, in 1932 - the factory apprenticeship school worked at the Lenin Forge factory in Kiev : turner , from March 1933 - chairman of the trade union committee and secretary of the Komsomol organization of FZU, propagandist of the Komsomol factory organization.

In June 1933, Mironov was called up for service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army . In 1934, he graduated from the 9th military aviation school of pilots and observer pilots in Kharkov ^[1] . From October 1934, he served in this school as a pilot instructor, from May 1936 - as a pilot instructor. Since August 1938 - flight instructor at the Kirovobad Military Aviation School. Since November 1939, he has been the flight commander of the 68th Fighter Aviation Regiment . In 1938 he joined the CPSU (b) .

Since December 1939, he participated in the battles of the Soviet-Finnish war , when the regiment was transferred to the Air Force of the 13th Army of the North-Western Front . He flew on the I-153 fighter. By January 27, 1940, he made 37 sorties, conducted 3 air battles, personally shot down 1 Finnish Fokker D-21 aircraft, and destroyed more than 10 enemy firing points by attack flights ^{[2] [3]} .

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 7, 1940, for “exemplary performance of command missions in battles on the Karelian Isthmus and shown courage and heroism”, Senior Lieutenant Sergei Mironov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal " Under the number 280 ^[1] .

After the war ended in March 1940 he was appointed assistant squadron commander of the 7th Fighter Aviation Regiment in the Leningrad Military District . In September 1940 he was sent to study and by June 1941 he graduated from the first course of the Military Academy of the command and navigator of the Red Army Air Force .

Since the beginning of World War II - on its fronts. He urgently returned to the 7th IAP, which fought in the 5th mixed air division on the Northern Front . He was appointed commander of the squadron, and in July he became deputy commander of the regiment. He took an active part in the Leningrad defensive operation , having won his first air victories over Luftwaffe aircraft in air battles on August 2 and 3.

In August 1941 he was transferred to the 153rd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Force of the 23rd Army of the Leningrad Front , and in November 1941 he became commander of this regiment. Until April 1942, the regiment fought on the Leningrad Front, then was withdrawn for reorganization and rearmament, and in August 1942 returned to the front, but already as part of the 244th Bomber Aviation Division of the 2nd Air Army of the Voronezh Front . In October 1942, the regiment was transferred to the 6th Air Army of the North-Western Front . For the exemplary performance of combat missions and the courage and heroism shown by the order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR of November 22, 1942, the floor received the guard rank and became known as the 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment. Only in 1942, a regiment under the command of S. I. Mironov destroyed 77 German aircraft, their combat losses amounted to 10 aircraft and 11 pilots, non-combat losses - 3 aircraft ^[4] . The commander himself in 1942 shot down 5 aircraft in person and 1 in the group. ^[5]

From December 1942, he served as an inspector of fighter aviation of the Red Army Air Force Inspectorate; from January 1943, he served as head of the Fighter Aviation Directorate of the Main Directorate of Combat Training of Front-line Air Force of the Red Army. During his service in this department, he went on business trips on almost all fronts of the army. From May 31, 1944 until the end of the war he commanded the 193rd Fighter Aviation Division . Formed this division in the Kharkov and Odessa military districts, in June 1944 it became part of the 13th fighter aviation corps of the 16th Air Army of the 1st Belorussian Front , in the ranks of which it fought until Victory. The division performed well in the Belorussian , Vistula-Oder , East Pomeranian and Berlin offensive operations. The pilots of the division destroyed 305 enemy aircraft with a loss of 85 of their own. The division was given the honorary name "Demblinskaya" and it was awarded the Order of Suvorov 2nd degree.

During the years of World War II, S. Mironov himself made 124 sorties, conducted 38 air battles, shot down 7 enemy planes personally and 4 in a group, and also shot down 3 balloons ^[6] .

After the war, S. I. Mironov continued to serve in the Soviet Army. From December 1945 to March 1947 he commanded the 4th Guards Fighter Aviation Division of the 1st Guards Fighter Air Corps of the 16th Air Army of the Group of Soviet Occupation Troops in Germany .

In 1949 he graduated from the Higher Military Academy named after K. E. Voroshilov . From March to December 1949 he commanded the 61st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps of the 24th Air Army in Germany ^[7] . From December 1949 - head of the Fighter Aviation Training Directorate of the USSR Air Force, from July 1950 - head of the department - fighter aviation training director and pilot of the fighter aviation combat training department, Air Force combat training department, from March 1953 - head of the Fighter Aviation Training Directorate of the Main Combat Training Directorate Air Force From October 1953 to January 1957 he commanded the 30th Air Army of the Baltic Military District . Since January 1957 - Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force for military scientific work. Since August 1960 - Inspector General of the Air Force Inspectorate of the Main Inspectorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Since July 1962, he served as deputy in combat training for the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force of the USSR. According to official information, Colonel-General of Aviation Sergei Mironov died in a plane crash on August 3, 1964 . ^[8] However, in the diaries of NP Kamanin it is mentioned that General Mironov drowned while resting in Svetlogorsk , while “an autopsy showed that he had choked, four ribs were broken, many bruises and abrasions on the body, a large bruise on the temple” ^[9] He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow ^[1] .

Son: Mironov Valery Sergeevich (1939-2011), Major General of Aviation.

• Hero of the Soviet Union (04/07/1940);
• Order of Lenin (04/07/1940);
• Five orders of the Red Banner (1940, 05/05/1942, 09/13/1942, 1943, ...);
• Two orders of Suvorov 2nd degree (04/06/1945, 05/31/1945);
• Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree (04/19/1945);
• Order of the Red Star ;
• USSR medals ^[1] .

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• Mironov, Sergey Ivanovich (Hero of the Soviet Union) (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• S. I. Mironov on the site "Soviet aces"
• S. I. Mirnov on the site "Red Falcons"
• Photos of S. Mironov in aircraft at the 28th GIAP