Anatoly Lyapidevsky

Anatoly Vasilyevich Ljapidewski (Russian Анатолий Васильевич Ляпидевский; * 10 Märzjul / March 23 1908greg in station Beloglinskaja, Stavropol province, .. † April 29, 1983 in Moscow) was a Soviet pilot.

Ljapidewski was one of the seven pilots who evacuated the shipwrecked crew of the defunct in February 1934 in the Arctic Ocean steamer Tscheljuskin of an ice floe. Because of this performance, the award was donated to Hero of the Soviet Union and gave the Flyers as the first in the history of the Soviet Union.

Life

Ljapidewski occurred in 1926 in the Red Army. In 1928 he graduated from the Seefliegerschule in Sevastopol and then served from 1929 as a flight instructor and pilot in the rank of an officer in the Baltic Fleet. In 1933 he was transferred to the reserve and went to Aeroflot, where he worked as an airline pilot in the Far East Department. In 1934 it was Ljapidewski who discovered the missing Tscheljuskin crew on an ice floe and with his TB -1 aircraft flew out the first shipwrecked. On April 20, 1934 Ljapidewski received first the title of " Hero of the Soviet Union." In the same year he became a member of the Communist Party. In 1935 he re-entered the army and graduated to 1939 to study at the Zhukovsky University. Then he was at the Research Institute of the Air Force ( NII VVS ) worked and worked until 1942 as deputy chief of the main inspection and as director of an aircraft plant. From 1942 to 1943 Ljapidewski was on the Karelian front in the 19th Army deputy commander of the air forces, as well as at the 7th Air Army primarily responsible for field maintenance. 1943, the line of an aircraft plant, he was again transferred, a post he held until the war ended.

After the war Ljpidewski was appointed Deputy Minister of aviation industry and has held this office until he was in 1961 transferred to the reserve. He was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet and received, among others, the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin twice. In 1935 the book written by him " The fifth of March. " Ljapidewskis grave is located in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. 1985, a memorial plaque was unveiled in honor of him at his Moscow apartment building on Prospect Suvorov.