The artillery range, starting from Brovarsky highway, occupied a vast territory between Nikolskaya, Voskresenskaya Slobodki and Vigurovshchina in the west and Bykovnya farm in the east - about 15 kilometers along the perimeter. In the north, the landfill bordered the Forest Cemetery. During July 1913, Pyotr Nesterov [1] and five of his colleagues (among them the Russian military pilot , the captain of the Russian army during World War I , and fighter aviation. Military theorist, founder of tactics of fighter aviation. Military writer and publicist Kruten Evgraf Nikolaevich [2] ) worked at the training ground with artillerymen on four aircraft. These exercises are the first in the history of the general teachings of artillerymen and pilots.
Notes
- ↑ Nesterov, Pyotr Nikolaevich (Russian) // Wikipedia. - 2017-03-28.
- ↑ Kruten, Evgraf Nikolaevich (Russian) // Wikipedia. - 2017-05-28.