Vodopyanov Mikhail Biography

Born on November 7 in the village of Studenka now - within the city of Lipetsk. He worked at the airfield in Lipetsk by an aircraft fuel. In the army from the year. He served as an rational in the division of air ships, from a year - an assistant driver, from a year - a driver. He participated in the civil war. After the war ended, he was demobilized and arrived in Moscow, worked as a loader, studied.

From the year - an aviation motorist, then a flight mechanic. In the year he graduated from the Dobroleta flight school, in the year-the Moscow Flight Technical School. As a flight mechanic, and then the Dobroleta pilot participated in expeditions to combat the locust in the North Caucasus and Kazakhstan. In January, he was the first to open an air line on the island of Sakhalin. Since the year, he worked at the Central Airport in the Lyutny detachment of the newspaper Pravda, which delivered newspaper matrices to the largest cities of the USSR.

Then he flew on civilian aircraft on long-range air routes Moscow-Leningrad, Moscow-Irkutsk, on the island of Sakhalin, to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Member of the CPSU B from the year. In the winter of the year, in a test flight from Moscow to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, his aircraft crashed on Lake Baikal. The flight mechanic died, and M. Vodopyanov received a concussion and multiple fractures subsequently only overlaid 36 seams.

In the year, after a long siege of the government commission, he achieved sending to participate in the salvation of the Chelyuskins. Together with V. Galyshev and I. Doronin, he made a flight almost a km long from Khabarovsk in Vankarem on the R-5 plane, without a navigator, without a radio operator, through the ridges, through the mountains, along an incredibly heavy highway.

From Anadyr, he flew three times to the poor people and took out 10 people from there. By a resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of April 20, for the unprecedented heroic work of the pilots who saved the Chelyuskins, Vodopyanov Mikhail Vasilyevich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin. In years he made flights to the Arctic, was the commander of a flight detachment, which delivered the first drifting station to the North Pole.

For the first time in the world on May 21, he landed the aircraft in the North Pole. For this, the status of the status was awarded twice Hero of the Soviet Union at that time. A participant in the Soviet-Finnish war as the commander of a heavy bomber TB made several sorties, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. The brigade commander M. Vodopyanov is a participant in the Great Patriotic War since July, the commander of the long -range bomber aviation division.

On the night of August 10 to 11, he personally participated in the second raid on Berlin. His PA-8 aircraft was shot down and made a forced landing in the territory occupied by the enemy. Through the front line returned to his. For heavy losses, he was shifted from the post of division commander. He continued to make combat sorties as a ship commander as part of the Civil Defense of the Aviation Regiment and the Guards of the heavy bomber aviation regiment, then he was at the disposal of the commander of the air army.

Since the year, Major General M. Vodopyanov is retired. In years, he participated in the military high-wide expeditions "North-1" and "Sever-2". In the year he was presented for awarding the second medal "Golden Star", but received the Order of Lenin due to the secrecy of the award. He participated in the studies of the Arctic in the years.

He lived in Moscow. Member of the Union of Writers, actively engaged in literary activity. He died on August 11. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. Major General Aviation was awarded 4 orders of Lenin in Moscow by the name of the hero, and a memorial plaque was installed on the house in which he lived. In Sevastopol, the descent is named after M. Vodopyanova.

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