Heroes 05/02/20 Vladimir Seregin: what did the war pilot who died with Gagarin
the crash of the MiG-15UTI on March 27, 1968 went down in history because it killed the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin. About the second victim of the tragedy to remember less. Meanwhile, in the last seconds of life near Gagarin was a remarkable man – a combat pilot, hero of the great Patriotic war Vladimir Seregin.
Brave as
Moscow-Born Vladimir Sergeyevich Seryogin appeared at the front in 1943, when he graduated from the Tambov military aviation school. The young pilot was enrolled in the 672-th assault aviation regiment of the 10th assault air corps of the 3rd Ukrainian front.
In early 1944, Seregin earned the first award – the order of the red Star. In the award document noted a number of brave 21-year-old pilot, who fought in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. For example, on January 30 on the Il-2 he made a bombing-assault RAID on tanks that had accumulated in the area of Mariivka. Dodging German flak, Seregin just went to target and destroyed two German tanks. The same feat he repeated the next day in the area of Stalindorf. And on 4 February at the station Loshkarivka Seregin bombed three covered railway wagon.
In the papers to awarding ASU the second order of the red banner described the successful air battle Seregina with “Messerschmitt” Bf.109, which occurred March 24, 1944: “In a bombing RAID on the crossing of the river bug, where there was a large accumulation of technology and a strong cover of anti-aircraft artillery and fighter, comrade Seregin just went for the ferry and dropped their bombs. At this point their group was attacked by 6 Me-109. Ahead of his two Me-109 attacked the lead. Comrade Seregin gives a long line, one Me-109 illuminates and stone crashes into the ground. The group Il-2 was shot down 3 Me-109”.
hero of the Soviet Union
In winning 1945 year Vladimir Seregin has received the order of the Patriotic war of two classes. For example, in a RAID on Hungarian station Sabad Batian East of lake Balaton, he saved the life of a Soviet pilot, which attacked the enemy “Focke-Wulf”. Seregin fired a long burst whereupon the enemy aircraft began to smoke and dramatically went down. He Seregin was wounded but managed to reach the airfield and land on the same chassis.
the Pilot bombed the equipment and manpower of the enemy until the last days of the war. For example, on 25 April 1945 in a group of 5 of the Il-2 aircraft he participated in the bombing-assault kick in Brunnen. Antiaircraft artillery the Nazis worked vigorously, but this did not prevent Stalin’s falcons.
“Comrade Seregin came out right on target and accurately dropped bombs, and then there was an explosion of enormous power,” – noted in the award document.
29 June 1945, Vladimir Seregin, received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In total he made 50 140 combat and reconnaissance sorties, conducted 19 air battles and shot down three German aircraft.
test Pilot
After the Victory Seregin remained in aviation and decided to devote himself to test new machines. From 1947 to 1953 he studied at the faculty of engineering vvia named after Zhukovsky. In 1967, the engineer-Colonel Seregin was awarded the title of test pilot 1st class. Then he was appointed head of the regiment at the cosmonaut training Center for flight training of space explorers.
Instructor of Yuri Gagarin during a training flight on MiG-15UTI Seregin was no accident: he had a great flight experience on this plane, and not once with success out of difficult situations. Once he was even able to put the car, which came off the wheel. Pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Eliseev recalled Seregin, as “courageous, collected person.” However, the skill of the Hero of the Soviet Union was not enough to bring a training aircraft from a spin on that tragic March day in 1968. As found by governmentsennaya Commission, it Seregin last held the helm. There is, however, the version that 46-year-old veteran health failed. As did major-General of aviation Nikolai Kuznetsov, and Seregin had a heart attack, and Gagarin, until recently, trying to save the instructor managed to eject.
Timur Sagdiyev
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