Baido, Vladimir Zakharovich

Born July 12, 1918 . Belarus .

Had an incomplete higher education ^[1] . Before the war, he worked as a TsAGI design engineer, non-partisan.

After the start of World War II, he served in the 7th Fighter Aviation Regiment , showed himself heroically in air battles with the Finns and Germans, and was a gentleman of military orders.

Before the war, the 7th IAP was based at the airport in Maisniemi , near Vyborg . On the second day of the war, the commander of the 193rd air regiment, Major G. M. Galitsin, was instructed to form an operational group from the remains of the defeated air units, which retained the number of the 7th IAP. June 30, the updated regiment began to carry out combat missions. In the first months of the war, it was based on the airfields of the Karelian Isthmus , then on the suburban airfields of Leningrad , protecting it from the north and northwest. By the time of his capture, Baido was one of the most experienced pilots, and his regiment became one of the advanced units of the Air Force of the Leningrad Front . Pilots performed up to 60 sorties per day daily, many of them were awarded orders and medals.

B. 3. Baido was awarded the military orders of the Red Star and the Red Banner .

On August 31, 1941, during a combat mission, he was shot down over the territory of Finland and captured by the Finns.

Until September 1943 he was held in the 1st officer camp at st. Peinokhia, after which it was transferred to the Germans and moved to a prisoner of war camp in Poland. In December 1943, he was recruited as a German intelligence agent under the pseudonym Mikhailov. He gave relevant subscriptions on cooperation with the Germans and was sent to study in a reconnaissance school.

In April 1945, he voluntarily joined the ROA and was enrolled in the personal guard of V. Maltsev , where he was awarded the military rank of captain.

April 30, 1945 captured by US troops and subsequently transferred to the Soviet side. ^{[2] [3]} A military tribunal in 1945 filed a motion to deprive B. 3. Baido of the Orders of the Red Banner and Red Star. On August 31 of the same year, a military tribunal of the 47th Army was convicted under Art. 58-1 pb2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 10 years of camps with a 3-year loss of rights without confiscation of property. He was held in prisons from July 31, 1945 to April 27, 1956 in two cases, one of which was rehabilitated, and the other was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

September 9, 1948 arrived in Norillag from the Yeniseylag ^[4] . Then he served his sentence in the Mountain Camp of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs in Norilsk , worked as a labor engineer, the head of the 1st column in the 2nd camp department, and as a dental technician in the 4th camp department (1948-1949).

For carrying out anti-Soviet activities was arrested on December 30, 1949. February 27, 1950, a special camp court of the Mountain Camp of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR was convicted under Art. 58-10 hours. 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 10 years of imprisonment with serving in prison with a loss of rights for 5 years. Unserved punishment under Art. 49 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR absorbed.

After Stalin's death, a wave of strikes and uprisings swept through several Special Camps . It is believed that one of the reasons for this was the amnesty of March 27, 1953 . After her announcement, more than 1 million people were released from the camps. But she practically did not affect the prisoners of the Special Services, since she did not apply to the most serious paragraphs of article 58. In 1953, Baido was a member of the rebel committee of the 5th division of Gorlag ^[5] .

On March 30, 1955, the appeal for review was denied.

There is an assumption, not confirmed by archival documents, that he was presented for awarding the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the "Golden Star". And, learning about this from the command, he considered himself an already held Hero of the Soviet Union. But this idea was not realized for some reason.

In the book of the former prisoner G. S. Klimovich , it is written about Baido:

The war found him in one of the aviation units of the Leningrad Military District, where he served under the command of the future Air Marshal Novikov, and on the second day of the war, Baido was a direct participant in the war. Once, with his squadron, he bombed Helsinki and was attacked by the Messerschmitts. There was no cover for the fighters, I had to defend myself, the forces were unequal. Baida's plane was shot down, he was captured. In an open car with the inscription “Soviet vulture” on board, he was taken along the streets of the Finnish capital, and then sent to a prisoner of war camp - first to Finland, and in the winter of 1941 - to Poland, near Lublin.

For more than two years, he strengthened himself, endured all the hardships of the Nazi concentration camp, and expected that the Allies were about to open a second front and the end of torment would come. But the allies hesitated, they did not open a second front. He got angry and asked to fight in the Luftwaffe on the condition that he would not be sent to the Eastern Front. The request was granted, and he began to beat the Allies over the English Channel . He, it seemed to him, took revenge on them. For his courage, Hitler personally handed him the Knight's Cross with diamonds in his residence. He capitulated to the Americans, and those, having robbed him of the Golden Star and the Knight's Cross, handed over to the Soviet authorities. Here, for treason, he was tried and sentenced to 10 years in prison, sent to Gorlag .

Baido interpreted such a sentence as offensive injustice; he did not feel guilty, believed that he had not betrayed his homeland, but she to him; that if at the time when he, rejected and forgotten, languished in a fascist concentration camp, the Motherland would show the slightest care for him, there would be no talk of any betrayal, he would not have any anger towards the allies, and he would not would sell myself to the Luftwaffe. He shouted about this truth to everyone and everywhere, wrote to all authorities, and so that his voice would not be lost in the Taimyr tundra, he refused to obey the administration. Attempts to call him to order by force met with due rebuff. Baida was decisive and had very trained hands - with a direct blow of his fingers he could break through the human body in the order of self-defense, and interrupt a 50 mm board with the edge of his palm. Unable to cope with him in Gorlag, the MGB delivered him to Tsemstroy " ^[6] .

After his release, Baido remained in Norilsk, worked as a turner in an underground mine, as a design engineer, and as the head of the assembly section. From 1963 until his retirement in 1977, he worked in the laboratory of the Mining and Metallurgical Experimental Research Center. Then he moved with his wife to Donetsk , where he died.

July 23, 1997 was rehabilitated by the prosecutor's office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (P-22644) ^[4] .

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree (1985) ^[7]

• "Stalin's Falcons" in the service of the Luftwaffe.