Utochkin, Sergey Isaevich

The early years

He was born on July 12 (June 30 according to the old style ) in Odessa in 1876 , at the address of Uspensky 23 Lane. The following is recorded in the church book of the Assumption Church of the Kherson Spiritual Consistory in Odessa:

Odessa’s 2nd guild of merchant Isai Kuzmich, son Utochkin and his legal wife Austinya Stefanovna, both Orthodox, had a son Sergei.

My father belonged to the 2nd merchant guild , was a successful construction contractor. Sergei Utochkin’s parents passed away early, and he and his two brothers were brought up by relatives. In childhood, he experienced a shock, as a result of which he remained a stutter for the rest of his life. He studied at the Odessa Commercial School of St. Paul, but at the age of 15 left school for sports. He lived in Odessa in the house at the address: 11 Uspensky lane.

Sports career

Sergei Isaevich Utochkin in his autobiographical essay “My Confession”, published in 1913 , wrote that he had successfully engaged in fifteen sports. Not possessing exceptional natural data, he achieved success in sports thanks to hard work and willpower. Utochkin became the champion of Odessa in competitions in speed skating, tennis, fencing, rowing, swimming, boxing and wrestling. He independently builds a yacht and wins it in sailing regattas, and even sinks to the bottom of the sea in a diving suit. Becomes one of the first Russian football players, speaking for the amateur team of the Odessa British Athletic Club . At that time, football in Russia was cultivated mainly among foreigners, but Utochkin breaks this tradition and establishes two football clubs in Odessa and is elected captain of one of them. One of the first in Russia to master roller skates. He practiced jiu-jitsu , parachuting; in the future - he became a cyclist, a motorcycle racer and a racing driver.

Being a versatile athlete, he achieved the greatest success as a cyclist. Odessa writer Valentin Kataev noted in his memoirs: “The bicycle was his element” ^[5] . At the turn of the century in the late XIX - early XX centuries, Odessa was the center of cycling in the south of Russia. In the spring of 1890, Utochkin became a member of the Odessa Society of Amateur Cyclists , after which over the next twenty years he won many times in competitions in Russia and abroad. Sergey Utochkin became the repeated champion and champion of Russia and won prizes at international competitions in Europe ^{[6] [7]} . Often, Utochkin, yielding to more eminent rivals in the experience, gained victory thanks to endurance and endurance, which allowed him to save strength for spurt at the finish. The ability to finish made Sergey Utochkin a famous cyclist in Europe. The years 1895-1905 became the time of the enormous popularity of cycling in Russia ^[8] , and Sergey Utochkin was considered an unsurpassed sprinter and was a favorite of the public ^[9] . His friend was a young cyclist and circus artist Khariton Slavorossov , who later also became a famous aviator. According to the testimony of Sergei Utochkin himself, it was precisely the skills acquired during playing sports that later helped him independently and in a short time to master the control of various aeronautical devices, primarily airplanes.

It was not enough for Sergey Utochkin to win on a cycle track or a football field; he wanted to expand the limits of human capabilities. To do this, he ran a race with the Odessa steam tram, competed on a bicycle with a racehorse, and on roller skates - against a cyclist, moreover, with constant success. The famous Potemkin Stairs became a source of sports tricks for him: he went down its steps on a bicycle, motorcycle and car. As an athlete, Sergey Utochkin achieved fame and recognition, and among Odessa cyclists stuttering was considered a special chic. Alexander Kuprin wrote:

... if there are two popular names in Odessa, then these are the names of the bronze Duke standing above the boulevard, and Sergei Utochkin - the idol of fishermen, cyclists of all ranks and ages, women, eager for spectacles, and street boys.

- Alexander Kuprin “Above the Ground” (1909)

However, Utochkin did not make any fortunes, but, on the contrary, spent personal funds on the purchase of sports equipment and trips to competitions in Russia and Europe. Costs increased significantly after S.I. Utochkin became interested in aeronautics and aviation. At the same time, he never refused material assistance to anyone, and his generosity and responsiveness were well known in Odessa.

Aviation Propaganda

October 2, 1907 in Odessa, after several unsuccessful attempts, Sergey Utochkin made an independent flight in a balloon purchased by him ^[3] . The flight took place at an altitude of 1200 m. ^[10] Then in 1908 he and his comrades flew to Egypt ^[11] .

In the fall of 1908, the French aviator Henri Farman flew almost 30 km long in France on a Farman brothers biplane, and on July 25, 1909, his compatriot Louis Bleriot flew his own monoplane from France to England across the English Channel, for which he was awarded the Legion of Honor . These and other world events related to aviation , as well as the demonstration flights of foreign pilots that began in 1909 in Russia, aroused genuine interest in aeronautics in Russian society ^[12] . At this time, a number of Russian pilots, including from Odessa, began training abroad. March 31 (April 13), 1910, Sergey Utochkin first took off on the Farman IV biplane, owned by Odessa banker S. Ksidias. Utochkin subsequently bought a plane from him and used it on his tour of the cities of the Russian Empire. He became the second certified pilot in the history of aeronautics in Russia (the first was Mikhail Efimov ). If M. Efimov learned to fly in France at the Farman school, then Utochkin did it on his own and in the spring of 1910 passed the exams for the title of pilot-aviator in the Odessa flying club , then confirmed by the Imperial All-Russian Aviation Club (IWAC) ^[13] . Already in May 1910, Utochkin began demonstration flights in Kiev, Moscow, Kharkov and Nizhny Novgorod.

In total, Sergey Utochkin made about 150 flights in 70 cities of Russia and beyond in the years 1910-1912 ^[14] . For example, on May 10, 1910, the Russian Word newspaper described Utochkin’s speech on the Khodynsky field in Moscow:

Today’s Utochkin’s flights, despite the cold and wind, have attracted such an enormous amount of the public, which does not happen even at the Derby rally. But there were even more free viewers who blocked the whole Khodynka. Utochkin’s exercises, instead of starting with a flight to a height of 200 meters, as the program promised, began with free flight. ... Then the aviator made a figured flight. He described the eights, demonstrated ups and downs in the air, made spectacular turns, flew into the stalls and held a few meters above the very heads of the audience, which caused a considerable commotion among them, and then instantly rose to the top, holding out in the air for 9 minutes. 36 sec The day ended with a flight with a lady passenger lasting 2 m. 1 s.

- ^[15]

Utochkin became the first domestic aviator to fly an airplane into the Moscow sky ^[16] . Professor Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky , who was present during the flights, said that in addition to knowledge and skill, Utochkin has the innate ability necessary for the aviator.

Utochkin’s flight demonstrations gathered crowds of spectators. So, on April 22, 1910, “up to 49 00 spectators” were present in Kiev ^[17] . At a speech by Utochkin in Baku on October 23, 1910, about 20,000 people gathered ^[18] . On May 6, 1911, the newspaper Kurskaya Byl in the article “Flight of Utochkin” reported that “the public was visible and invisible” ^[19] .

In the city of Gomel, Utochkin’s flight was observed by the schoolboy Pavel Sukhoi , the future Belarusian Soviet aircraft designer and founding father of the famous Design Bureau and the company that bears his name. According to the words of Pavel Sukhoi himself, the public flights of Utochkin made such a strong impression that it determined his whole future destiny and gave the world yet another talented designer of piston and jet aircraft. Daughter, Irina Pavlovna Sukhaya recalled her father’s story: “... I was walking with the guys from the gymnasium, and suddenly an airplane flew over our heads. It was so unexpected and amazing that it was breathtaking. Not a bird, but a man flies over us! ” ^[20]

Utochkin’s performance in Minsk over the Komarovsky swamp on the northern outskirts of the city ​​was a great success ^[21] .

In Kiev, Utochkin’s flights were watched by the future creator of aircraft engines Alexander Mikulin and the beginning aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky, as well as schoolboy Konstantin Paustovsky. After many years, while working on memoirs, Paustovsky described what he saw in the story “Bravo, Utochkin!” And retained the admiration of the audience for posterity ^[22] . The Soviet aircraft designer G.M. Mozharovsky observed Utochkin’s flight on Farman in his childhood in Berdyansk. In his memoirs, he wrote: “After I saw an airplane flying in the sky, it became completely clear to me that I would be a pilot or, in extreme cases, an airplane designer. My comrades decided the same thing ” ^[23] .

If children and adolescents relatively easily built in the sight of the flight of the clumsy-looking first airplanes nicknamed whatnots into their emerging picture of the world, then this was not easy for adults. The writer Vladimir Gilyarovsky so conveyed a complex gamut of feelings that arose in him at the sight of a flying device hovering in the usual order of things:

Of course, I went here to watch Utochkin’s flight on an airplane, of course, I read and reviewed all the airplanes in the illustrations, but to see a huge booth rushing with noise through the air at a height of several fallen above the ground makes a stunning impression. And in the middle of this shed sat a man. So - a residential building. Airborne! Something fabulous! ... Two more circles - 9 in total - describe the airplane and sinks smoothly and quietly onto the grass of the hippodrome. Utochkin comes to a thunderous applause in front of the podium. The winner is celebrated over the air ^[24] .

- Vladimir Gilyarovsky (From my memories)

In recognition of the merits of Sergey Utochkin in April 1910 in Kiev he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Kiev Aeronautics Society "For the popularization of aeronautics in Russia." The peak of fame and popularity of the aviator in Russia occurred in the summer of 1910 , when on July 3, in the presence of many spectators, he took off on the Farman plane from the territory of the Factory, Art, Industrial, and Agricultural All-Russian Exhibition in Odessa and flew across the Odessa Gulf . This was the 100th anniversary flight of the pioneer of domestic and world aviation, which Odessa News was compared in importance to the flight Bleriot through Lamanche .

From September 8 to October 1, 1910 in St. Petersburg, the First All-Russian Ballooning Festival took place at the Commandant Airport, equipped on the site of the Kolomyazh Hippodrome, the Commandant Airdrome (currently Aerodromnaya, Koroleva, Parachutnaya Streets and Bogatyrsky, Prospyatel and Kolomyazhsky Avenues). All the most famous pilots of Russia of that time were invited to it, including S. I. Utochkin. ^[2] Airplanes, tethered balloons, balloons and an airship were displayed for the public. During flight weather, aviators demonstrated flights on airplanes. September 21 in competitions on the accuracy of the descent, the first prize was received by Sergey Utochkin. September 22, in the struggle of pilots for the duration of the flight without landing, he takes second place, in competitions for altitude - the third. During the competition for the prize of the marine department for the accuracy of landing on the conventional deck of the ship, Utochkin was again second after his main rival, Mikhail Efimov ^[25] . The ballooning festival was successful: it was visited by over 150,000 people, and it began to be held annually. It is difficult to overestimate its importance in promoting aviation in Russia.

In October 1910, an aviation week was held in Baku , which became the first air show in the history of the Caucasus, to which pilots S. I. Utochkin and A. M. Gaber-Vlynsky were invited . Sergei Utochkin performed on October 20-23 on the Farman airplane. On the first day, with numerous spectators, he made several safe flights. On the second and third day, despite a strong wind, Utochkin did not stop the demonstration flights. On the last day of performances, Utochkin’s plane, while in the air, went into a tailspin, from which the pilot managed to exit at the last moment. Baku People greeted the aviator who escaped death as a hero, chanting his name and throwing bouquets of flowers ^[26] .

Sergei Isaevich Utochkin forever entered the history of domestic and world aeronautics ^[27] , becoming a member of the flight from St. Petersburg to Moscow in July 1911. He was the first to take off on the Bleriro monoplane equipped for long-haul flights from the Commandant airfield in St. Petersburg. Before Novgorod, Utochkin had no breakdowns. But ten kilometers from the city a motor fluttered. Utochkin landed for repairs, which were made in Novgorod. The next day he continued on his way, but soon a strong gust of wind threw Bleriot down. The accident occurred twenty-five kilometers from Kresttsov, near the village of Vina ^[28] . The airplane was broken, and Utochkin was in the hospital ^[29] .

The newspaper “Russian Vedomosti” summed up the results of a historic flight:

Of the 12 aviators who signed up for it, three completely refused to fly, three crashed, one crashed his car, four got stuck at intermediate stations and only one Vasiliev safely reached the target and flew to Moscow on the second day after leaving St. Petersburg ^[30] .

- “Russian Vedomosti”, July 15, 1911

In the successful completion of the historical flight by A. Vasiliev , S. Utochkin also played a role. Here is how A. Kuprin describes it:

... during the last unfortunate flight (Petersburg - Moscow) Utochkin showed his open, truthful and kind heart from the magnificent side. Then - remember? - one of the aviators, who fell happily, but broke the device, refused a comrade who was sitting next to him in gasoline and oil: "Not for me - for nobody." Utochkin, being in a similar position, not only gave Vasiliev his stock, but he, barely moving from the consequences of a cruel fall, found enough courage and patience to use the propeller of the Vasilievsky airplane. ^[31] .

- Alexander Kuprin. Utochkin (1915)

Repeatedly, Utochkin’s airplanes crashed during flights, one of the most serious accidents occurred near Novgorod just during the July flight of 1911 from St. Petersburg to Moscow , when, in addition to several fractures, Sergei Isaevich Utochkin also suffered a concussion. Nevertheless, after a month and a half, he returned to aviation again.

In 1912, Sergey Utochkin again made public flights not only in large cities, but also in small Russian cities, having visited, in particular, in the spring of 1912 in the village of Kamenskaya on the Seversky Donets in the Don Army Region . The posters stuck around the village read: “The aviator will fly in a special aircraft heavier than Gakkel-VII . ” Aviator Utochkin will perform certain maneuvers on it . ” Having started and made several circles over the village, Utochkin landed on Christ Christmas Square (now Labor Square), enthusiastically greeted by the audience. The photographs that Utochkin made in flight ^[32] are preserved. In April 1912, Sergey Utochkin demonstrated the first flight in Estonia on a Farman IV biplane, starting from the Raadimyza field near Tartu .

Their flights, each of which threatened disaster due to the imperfection of the aircraft of that time, the aviator described as follows:

I am an Aviator ... I flew over the sea, over the cathedral, over the pyramids. Four times I crashed to death. The rest of the times are "nonsense." I eat only air and gasoline ... In general, I am the happiest of Odessa ...

- S. I. Utochkin “My Confession” (1913)

Recent years and death

Numerous accidents and injuries, severe headaches and chronic insomnia after the accident in the summer of 1911, a nervous breakdown associated with family drama (during Utochkin’s illness, his wife went to the manufacturer Arthur Anatra), all of this taken together caused S. I. Utochkina spiritual breakdown, which then, in 1913, grew into a mental disorder. First, the abuse of painkillers containing morphine, and then cocaine and hashish , which the pilot met in 1908 in Egypt while flying in a balloon, made his contribution. A certain role was also played by the fact that Sergei Isaevich Utochkin was not able to achieve the same success in aeronautics as he achieved in sports and become the best Russian pilot. In addition, the public, whose opinion Utochkin so valued, continued to see him as an eccentric athlete, this time an air acrobat, and not an aviator hero, which the writer Yuri Olesha well conveyed:

He is considered to be an eccentric. The attitude towards him is humorous. It is not known why. He was one of the first to ride a bicycle, motorcycle, car, one of the first to fly. Laughed. He crashed on the flight Petersburg - Moscow, crashed. Laughed. He was a champion, and in Odessa they thought he was an urban madman.

- Yuri Olesha. The Chain (1929) ^[33]

In 1911, A. A. Anatra broke off relations with him, which closed Utochkin’s access to the Odessa flying club, of which Anatra was president.

Based on physical and mental trauma, Sergei Utochkin developed a persecution mania, and he saw hidden enemies everywhere. Constantly escaping from Odessa clinics, where people close to him and friends tried to put him on treatment, Utochkin on June 26, 1913 tried to enter the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg with the demand to report to the tsar that "a famous aviator needs his protection" ^[34] . After that, he began to undergo examination in various clinics of St. Petersburg, where he had to be treated for almost a year.

About this period of the life of Sergei Utochkin, the writer Isaac Babel wrote as follows:

I saw Utochkin, Odessa pur sang, carefree and deep, fearless and thoughtful, graceful and long-armed, brilliant and stuttering. Cocaine or morphine seized him, seized him, they say, after he fell from an airplane somewhere in the swamps of the Novgorod province. Poor Utochkin, he lost his mind ...

- Isaac Babel. Odessa (1916) ^[35]

The last years of his life, Sergei Utochkin spent in St. Petersburg, Chisinau and his native Odessa in need and in search of work ^[36] . By this time, the reputation of a “madman” was firmly entrenched in him. Relapses of mental illness, fueled by drug use, gave way to a normal state, but Utochkin could not arrange his life. He didn’t have regular income, he periodically earned by playing billiards. In the "Blue Journal" published by A. I. Kuprin , his memoirs were published.

This is a difficult time in the life of S.I. Utochkin needs to be investigated. According to the existing version, after the outbreak of the First World War, he was promoted to ensign and enlisted in the automobile and aviation squad located in Ligovo near Petrograd. Then, in the autumn of 1915, during one of the flights, Utochkin caught a cold and fell ill with pneumonia, from which he died several hours before the new 1916. In another interpretation, at the end of 1915, Utochkin was accepted as an instructor at the Petrograd Aviation School, having been promoted to ensign, where he served for about a week, and then, having caught a cold in flight, was hospitalized with pneumonia ^[37] . According to the next version, after the outbreak of war, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich wrote a letter in which he asked for an audience "to state doctrines that can be applied for the use of heaven for military purposes" ^[38] . Allegedly no answer was received, and Utochkin then went to the Winter Palace, from where he was expelled.

On December 31, 1915 (January 13, 1916) in Petrograd, in his incomplete forty years, of which five were given to aviation, the pioneer of domestic aeronautics Sergei Isaevich Utochkin died in the hospital of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker for the mentally ill from cerebral hemorrhage ^[34] . In connection with the war, his death remained almost unnoticed by the general public.

He was buried at the Nikolsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra . A tombstone with the inscription ^[39] , now included in the List of objects of historical and cultural heritage of the federal (all-Russian) heritage located in St. Petersburg ^{[40], is} installed on the grave.

The writer Arkady Averchenko summed up the discussion of that time, who to consider Sergei Utochkin - an athlete, a hero or a madman:

If a person is exposed to sunlight for a long time, he is impregnated with it, his brain, his body hold these rays for a long time, and his whole character acquires a special brightness, expressiveness, convexity and sunshine. This saturation with the rays of the sun persists for a long time, perhaps forever. A striking example of this is Sergey Utochkin - whom we have sincerely mourned so recently. He died and took with him a particle of the still unspent reserve of the sun. And he radiated constantly, and all his friends and even outsiders basked in these bright, southerly, magnificent jets of warmth and joy.

- Arkady Averchenko. Gilded Pills (1916) ^[41]

Odessa journalist Y. Embros, who knew the great Odessa man well as editor of one of the first weekly illustrated aviation and sports magazines in Russia, Sports Life (1910-1911), said in his obituary about S. I. Utochkin:

The vast majority knew only Utochkina the athlete. People who knew him closely, from the very first moments of rapprochement, suddenly became convinced: there is another, carefully hidden from the crowd. Few people knew the dreamer and romance, in love with the sun and the sea, the seeker of beauty in life, in which there was something from Don Quixote, something from Glan, something from the ancient Stoic philosopher ... His cradle had many good fairies scattering their gifts, but the evil fairy wrapped them in a thread of tragedy.

- J. Embros (J. Herzenstein) ^[42]

As an obituary, the lines of V.V. Mayakovsky from the poem “Moscow-Königsberg” sound ^[43] :

Man in the Air

The everyday life often prevents one from seeing contemporaries with sparkling talent. Time puts everything in its place, and Sergey Utochkin appears in the eyes of the current generation as an athlete, a pioneer of aviation and a romantic of the sky. It is difficult for us to imagine and understand the enthusiasm and enthusiasm that people experienced at the beginning of the 20th century - those who took to the air and those who watched the flights of the first aircraft. Before the eyes of amazed people, the centuries-old mental and physical desire of a person to fly was crowned with success. The airplane gave birth to new heroes - the conquerors of the air element, among which S. I. Utochkin rightfully belongs. Aviation euphoria in society and the excitement around the first flights were explained by the fact that the airplane saw not only the embodiment of the triumph of scientific thought and technology, but also a new, mystical symbol of the era and the harbinger of the coming improvement and liberation of mankind ^[44] .

However, the fate of Sergei Utochkin showed that in the air a person remains dependent on the earth. Every biography needs to be concluded, and for this it is best to use the words of the aviator himself, who not only was well versed in literature, but was himself a master of literary words. In 1910, Aero and Automotive Life magazine asked Utochkin to share his impressions of the first flight with readers. Describing it, Sergey Utochkin expressed a special, not fully understood by others, perception of life and the world:

It seems that I always yearned for the sensations that now make up my affiliation - the affiliation of a lucky man who has penetrated the air.
I often happened to fly in a dream, and the dream was delightful.
The reality of the power and brightness of experiences exceeds the fantasticness of dreams, and there are no colors in the world that can color the brightly powerful beauty of moments - moments that can be so long.

My first flight lasted twelve minutes. This time is negligible when it flows in the dull, gray, dying atmosphere of life on earth, but when you fly, it’s seven hundred and twenty seconds, and every second a new fire of emotions lights up, deep, ravishing and inexpressibly full ... The tale broke off ... I went down. Light as a dream, an airplane stood against the backdrop of the rising sun. It was hard to imagine that a few minutes ago he lived and moved freely in the air ... ^[45]

- S. I. Utochkin

• In 1962, a film was released at the A. Dovzhenko Film Studio, telling about S. I. Utochkin - “ In the loop ”, where the star of the Soviet film actor Oleg Strizhenov starred. Directors: Nikolay Ilyinsky, Shulamif Tsybulnik. Cast: Oleg Strizhenov, Pavel Springfeld, Elsa Lezdey, Alexander Movchan, Stanislav Chekan, Victor Korshunov, Grigory Teslya, Vladimir Dalsky, Nikolai Pishvanov, Sergey Petrov, Nikolai Lebedev, Valentin Grudinin, Peter Vesklyarov. The script of the film was ready even before the war and initially the role of Utochkin was intended for Boris Andreevich Babochkin . After the war, the production of the film was postponed, and after the resumption of filming, the role of Sergei Utochkin went to Oleg Strizhenov. In 2001, a film artist unveiled a monument to the legendary aviator in Odessa ^[46] .

• In Odessa, in the City Garden, at the entrance to the KINO-UTOCHKINO cinema, S. I. Utochkin is a monument .
• Since 2002, in Odessa in March, the annual Utochkin Memorial bicycle race has been held. Since 2012, the race has been held in three age groups and consists of two types: individual and group ^[47] .
• Since 1977, the "Odessa club" Auto-retro "" named after S. I. Utochkin
• In Odessa, the descendants of the aviator created the music hall "Utochkin".
• The streets are named after Sergey Utochkin:
  • in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg , runs from Commandant Square to Korolev Avenue;
  • in the Ternovsky district of Krivoy Rog ;
  • in the Zheleznodorozhny district of Voronezh, there is Utochkin Lane, where on the house number 2 there is a memorial plaque dedicated to the pioneer of aviation;
  • in the village of Semenovka , Poltava region of Ukraine .
• Utochkin is mentioned in the song of A. Gorodnitsky “Aeronautical Park” .
• Utochkin installed a plaque on a house in Odessa at 23 Uspensky Lane, where he was born and lived from 1876 to 1916.
• On April 26, 2016, Odessa Lane First Kolkhozny became Utochkin Lane ^[48] .

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