Vladimir Yakovlevich Ivanov ( 1888 - ? ) - Russian officer , military pilot. Hero of the First World War .
| Vladimir Yakovlevich Ivanov | ||||||||
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| Date of Birth | July 15 ( 27 ), 1888 | |||||||
| Date of death | is unknown | |||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | |||||||
| Type of army | aviation | |||||||
| Rank | lieutenant | |||||||
| Battles / wars | World War I | |||||||
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Biography
Born July 15, 1888. In 1912, after graduating from the Aviation Department of the Officer Aeronautical School , he was appointed to the aviation detachment of the Brest-Lithuanian Aeronautical Battalion. Since 1913 he was transferred to the Brest-Litovsk Aviation Fortress Unit , renamed the 26th Corps Aviation Unit.
From July 7, 1913 to July 18, 1914, he acted as the sergeant major of an aviation detachment. Member of the First World War . December 18, 1914 "for military distinction" promoted to ensign . November 23, 1914 for courage was awarded the St. George Cross 4 degrees :
| Because he personally controlled the Farman-16 airplane under the actual gun, machine-gun and shrapnel fire of the enemy, he first threw a bomb of 2 pounds 30 pounds untried to this day into the fortification of the Przemysl fortress, which served as the basis for accepting those that were most appropriate for the tasks the destruction of the defensive structures of the fortress. According to a front-line report, the bomb exploded very successfully in the Sedlisko group, apparently making a great moral impression, except for the destruction bomb accompanying the explosion |
On August 31, 1915 for bravery, he was awarded the Order of St. George of the 4th degree and promoted to second lieutenant :
| Because on June 24, 1915, flying on an airplane in the vicinity of the Caucasian native cavalry division to a height of about 2000 meters, after a long battle, having killed an Austrian pilot with machine-gun fire, he shot down the enemy machine with fire with an observer inside it, which apparatus burned down after a fall |
On February 7, 1916, he was awarded the St. George Arms for courage:
| Because, while operating an airplane, with a clear danger to life from actual artillery, rifle and machine gun fire, during all the flights in the area of the enemy’s location, during the army’s operation on the Dniester River from May 31 to June 20, 1915 he made a number of general flights lasting 28 hours, selflessly penetrating, often with an extremely unfavorable state of the atmosphere, into the enemy’s deep rear and flying across the frontline of the army’s contact with the enemy, he made a number of reconnaissance missions, delivering faithful and especially important in a timely manner e in time and situation information about the number, position, movements of significant parts of the enemy and their guidance over the river. Dniester, and thus gave the army the opportunity to make decisions appropriate to the situation, which influenced the successful course of further army operations |
November 5, 1916 the plane of V. Ya. Ivanov crashed while landing at the airfield , returning from reconnaissance. He was treated in Odessa and Moscow . In December 1916 he returned to the 26th corps aviation detachment. In July 1917 he was promoted to assignment and seconded to the 1st Odessa Aviation Park, and in October to the Odessa Aviation School.
Sources
- Neshkin M.S., Shabanov V.M. Aviators - Knights of the Order of St. George and the St. George Arms of the First World War of 1914-1918: Biographical Handbook. - M. , 2006
- Shabanov V.M. Military Order of the Holy Great Martyr and Victorious George. Nominal lists 1769-1920. Bibliographic reference. - M. , 2004
- Ivanov Vladimir Yakovlevich on the site RIA officers
- Russian aviation