Biography of Vasily Koroleva

The tombstone of Korolev Vasily Ivanovich is the commander of the Fighter Aviation Regiment 1st Mixed Aviation Division, I am the army, the Karelian Front, and the lieutenant. Born on February 22 in the village of Osnovoovo Kaleevsky volost of the Volokolamsk district of the Moscow province now of Volokolamsk district of the Moscow region. He lived in Moscow since the year.

In years he worked as a turner at the Moscow electric factory. In the army since August. In the year he graduated from the Kachinsky military aviation school of pilots. He served in the Air Force as a pilot of fighter air regiments in the Leningrad Military District. Member of the Soviet-Finnish war: in November-January-a pilot of the 5th mixed aviation regiment, in January-March-assistant to the adjutant of the air squadron of the Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Ibis and a participant in the Great Patriotic War made several sorties on fighters: in June - January - the commander of the GO fighter aviation regiment, in January - July - the commander of the air squadron and the navigator of the fighter aviation regiment. He fought on the North and Karelian fronts. He participated in the defense of the Arctic and the Svir-Petrozavodsk operation.

In October, he was wounded in air battle. After four days, wounded and burned, made his way to his taiga. Until May, he was a cure for a hospital. In July-October, a pilot-inspector for piloting the control of the 7th Air Army, in October-November-a pilot-inspector for piloting techniques mixed since November-a fighter aviation division. He fought on the Karelian Front.

Participated in Petsamo-Kirkinese operations. In total, during the war he made combat sorties on fighters and, Hurrican, Kittihauk and La-5, in 31 air battle, personally shot down 2 and as part of the group 12 aircraft of the enemy. Until March, he served as a pilot-inspector of the fighter aviation division in Karelia. In March-September, he studied at the Monino Air Air Force.

Since October, Major V. Korolev is in stock. In November - April he worked as a pilot in polar aviation. In August - December, he worked as a pilot and a ship commander in a GVF in a separate air group of international air messages and the Moscow Transport Aviation Department. Then he worked at the Moscow Institute of Agricultural Engineers.

B-head of the first department, and in January-March-chief of staff of the civil defense at the Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K. lived in Moscow. He died on April 30. He was buried in the Dolgoprudnensky cemetery in Moscow. Major was awarded Lenin's Orders