Borisoglebsk Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots named after VP Chkalova: from triumph to corkscrew (special report of VO journalists)
Borisoglebsk Higher Military aviation Order of Lenin Red Banner School of Pilots named after V.P. Chkalova - the pride of the Soviet Air Force.
The school leads its legendary history since 1922, when the head of the State Department of the Red Air fleet An order was issued to create a school in the provincial town of Borisoglebsk, Voronezh Region, for training pilots. This educational institution began to be called the 2nd Higher School of the KVF. The first leader of the Borisoglebsk High School Naval Forces was appointed V.M.
In 1923, the order of the leaders of the FAC began the intensive formation of a flight school to train specialists capable of controlling the aircraft available at that time.
The first cadets of the school were placed in cavalry barracks left over from pre-revolutionary times, and the planes were in close proximity to cavalry arenas. Living conditions were truly Spartan: the cadets were located right on the floor of the barracks, in which there were no normal sleeping places. The pilots spread barracks of straw and covering themselves with their overcoats, the pilots divided the barracks with the Red Army 19 rifle police division.
The first flights took place in April 1923 of the year, and already in October of the same year the first group of cadets celebrated the successful completion of the 2.
Many graduates of the early years of the Borisoglebsk aviation school subsequently became prominent commanders and were awarded high state awards. Among them is a graduate Sergey Kondratievich Goryunov, who in 1945 received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. In 1924, Borisoglebsk VSL was graduated from Andrey Borisovich Yumashev, who in 1937 received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin for the unprecedented flight to ANT-25 from the USSR to the USA via the North Pole. The plane of Andrei Yumashev was in the air 82 hours 17 minutes, which was a new world record for air travel.
With piety you can literally talk about every graduate of the first years of 2's existence, because here, neither the name, nor the real legend of Soviet aviation, worthy of a separate article. Pilots who graduated from the Borisoglebsky aviation school participated in operations in different parts of the world: the sky of Spain, air battles during the Great Patriotic War, the conquest of the North, hours-long non-stop flights, Asia, Africa, South America.
Valery Pavlovich Chkalov became one of the outstanding graduates of the 2 of the High Volunteer College of the KVF, whose name was assigned to the school in 1938 after the tragic death of the famous Soviet pilot by the order of the People's Commissar of Defense Voroshilov.
In 1969, the educational institution in Borisoglebsk receives a new name, which brought him no less fame than the name 2. From then until the beginning of 90, the educational institution was called Borisoglebsky Higher Military School of Pilots named after V.P. Chkalov. During the next stage of its work, the school produced new explorers of the heavens, among whom were, among others, outstanding pilot-cosmonauts who forged fame for the Air Force, astronautics and the whole country. One of such outstanding graduates of BVVAUL is Oleg Novitsky, pilot-cosmonaut, who on October 25 on 2012 of the Soyuz-TMA-05М crew arrived on board the International Space Station.
The presented story is far from complete, but even these few lines make it possible to draw a conclusion about how important Borisoglebsky flight crew has been for many decades for the country's defense capability and for the formation of the prestige of the pilot profession itself. Thousands of boys who aspirated uttered the names of the great Chkalov, Kamanin, Kokkinaki, Kryukov, Yumashev themselves tried to enter the glorious galaxy of Boris-Gleb cadets. Someone succeeded in this, to someone fortune was less supportive.
But the “dashing” nineties came, and at the place of the legendary BVVAUL, first there was a branch of the Voronezh Military Engineering Aviation Institute, and then an incomprehensible institution, which had a rather dubious status in terms of training military professionals, and who was preparing here is also a big question. What was going to literally bit by bit for decades, turned into a pitiful sight in just a few years. The school, graduates of which were dozens of Heroes of the Soviet Union, suddenly became unnecessary to anyone, because at the beginning of 90's we were told that the country now had no enemies, and therefore she didn't need pilots.
Today, the Borisoglebsk School has a long name: “Training Aviation Center for the training of flight personnel of the front-line bomber and assault aviation to them. V.P. Chkalov. It would seem that the revival of the glorious school is gradually beginning, but looking at how much remains to be done, it becomes clear that if you don’t roll up your sleeves now, the unique educational institution of Russia with 90-year history can finally turn into a symbol of carelessness towards people, which are designed to stand in defense of the interests of the country and its citizens.
The journalists of the Military Review publication decided to visit the Borisoglebsky Aviation Training Center and see for themselves the condition of the legendary BVVAUL today. And they saw, admittedly, without embellishment.
We approach the main PPC. Outwardly, everything looks impressive: a barrier, anti-terrorist barriers, stopping signs, a pass requirement, which, admittedly, was not ...
It was decided that it would not be possible to enter the territory, but ... Knowledgeable people suggested that if we want to get over the fence, then it is not necessary to have a pass. To do this, there is an alternative "PPC" through which anyone can pass. Such words initially caused surprise, but then we realized that people are telling the truth. "In the backyard" found a narrow corridor through which led a well-trodden path. Subsequently, we learned that the military personnel themselves use this "checkpoint" much more often than the main checkpoints - less hassle and much closer ...
A picture of a football field was opened up, pretty overgrown with grass, through which the "Lissy" trails passed towards two four-story buildings. In these buildings hundreds of Boris-Gleb cadets once lived.
We went on one of the paths, to take a closer look at what the barracks are today. They expected to see that within the framework of modernization measures, the restoration of the barracks was being carried out, but it turned out that, unfortunately, it was far from a full restoration. Only a few air conditioners and plastic windows confirmed that there are sometimes people here.
We decided to walk around the territory in the hope of chatting with the cadets about how they are being trained in the UAC, but on the territory of several tens of square kilometers they did not find a single person in uniform. Only once on a huge avenue of Heroes several women were met, who, apparently, just like us, got into the territory through an alternative “checkpoint” and hurried into the district military hospital, which miraculously survived, located on the territory of the former BVVAUL.
I was pleased at the cleanliness of the Alley of Heroes, where portraits of outstanding graduates stood out. In all likelihood, the military are trying their best to maintain relative order in the territory of the Training Center. However, the impression of cleanliness and grooming was clearly blurred by the picture of the school campus and the monument to the glorious exploits of the school graduates, who (the town and the monument) almost completely took Mother Nature into their possessions. Frequent shrub, rotten foliage and handprints of vandals made a depressing impression.
If the portrait of Valery Chkalov was still lucky, as he is in 100 m from the main checkpoint, then many others were not spared by the ferrous metal hunters. The portraits for the vandals themselves clearly do not represent any interest, but the metal upholstery of the panels, on which the portraits of the Heroes were placed at one time, is one of the goals of visiting the school by those who don't give a damn about the memory of the heroes or the school itself.
They were not even too lazy to cut the blades of the propeller standing near the monument to the soldiers who had laid down their heads during the Great Patriotic War. The base itself, apparently, could not be unscrewed from the pedestal.
Yes, and the sports training ground hunters for non-ferrous metals and gifted building materials did not go around with their annoying attention.
The emptiness in the alleys of the legendary school was frightening. The impression was that neither the hospital nor other objects on the territory of the Training Center were absolutely protected, and the external severity remained only external. Sandbags at the entrance and the opening for combat, to be honest, do not fit well with the internal emptiness of the Training Center and the availability of an alternative entrance.
In this regard, I would like to express the hope that journalistic reporting will be an occasion to enhance security on the school’s territory, because here, as has already been said, there is also a military hospital in need of serious protection.
Two views of the training center made an equally controversial impression: the view from the facade and the view from the back of the main building.
An impressive view of the facade with a bust of V.P. Chkalov on the ground in front of the Training Center:
The same building in the background of the photograph (behind the building that once served as the building of the dining room). As you can see, the repair took place only on the outside of the main academic building.
Another building on the territory of the Training Center, the restoration stage of which has not yet been approached at all.
They were pleasantly pleased when they saw the literally shining building of the House of Officers, but then it turned out that it had very little to do with the officers. Now here is a cafe-barbecue and an organization called "Centralized Club System". Announcement at the entrance invited everyone to the fur trade fair. And here the officers were deprived of their home ...
The reportage on the journalists themselves made a rather painful impression. Walking along the alleys of the educational institution in which Chkalov and Zaletin, Kamanin and Gusev, Gerasimov and Prokhorov studied, melancholy sneaking into the times when the college parade was literally buzzing with bees from hundreds of cadets who in formal uniform were preparing for diplomas when training classrooms combat generals told future lieutenants about how important knowledge of the intricacies of air combat, when the vigilant patrol did not allow idle wandering around the territory of the military university of the country.
Frankly, I hope that this period of pain in the history of the Borisoglebsk Flight School will gradually become a thing of the past. After all, it can not be so that at the legendary Higher Flight School of the country that gave the country a whole galaxy of great people, someone put a fat cross.
In preparing the historical part of the material used information from the site:
http://www.bvvaul.ru/
The school leads its legendary history since 1922, when the head of the State Department of the Red Air fleet An order was issued to create a school in the provincial town of Borisoglebsk, Voronezh Region, for training pilots. This educational institution began to be called the 2nd Higher School of the KVF. The first leader of the Borisoglebsk High School Naval Forces was appointed V.M.
In 1923, the order of the leaders of the FAC began the intensive formation of a flight school to train specialists capable of controlling the aircraft available at that time.
The first cadets of the school were placed in cavalry barracks left over from pre-revolutionary times, and the planes were in close proximity to cavalry arenas. Living conditions were truly Spartan: the cadets were located right on the floor of the barracks, in which there were no normal sleeping places. The pilots spread barracks of straw and covering themselves with their overcoats, the pilots divided the barracks with the Red Army 19 rifle police division.
The first flights took place in April 1923 of the year, and already in October of the same year the first group of cadets celebrated the successful completion of the 2.
Many graduates of the early years of the Borisoglebsk aviation school subsequently became prominent commanders and were awarded high state awards. Among them is a graduate Sergey Kondratievich Goryunov, who in 1945 received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. In 1924, Borisoglebsk VSL was graduated from Andrey Borisovich Yumashev, who in 1937 received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin for the unprecedented flight to ANT-25 from the USSR to the USA via the North Pole. The plane of Andrei Yumashev was in the air 82 hours 17 minutes, which was a new world record for air travel.
With piety you can literally talk about every graduate of the first years of 2's existence, because here, neither the name, nor the real legend of Soviet aviation, worthy of a separate article. Pilots who graduated from the Borisoglebsky aviation school participated in operations in different parts of the world: the sky of Spain, air battles during the Great Patriotic War, the conquest of the North, hours-long non-stop flights, Asia, Africa, South America.
Valery Pavlovich Chkalov became one of the outstanding graduates of the 2 of the High Volunteer College of the KVF, whose name was assigned to the school in 1938 after the tragic death of the famous Soviet pilot by the order of the People's Commissar of Defense Voroshilov.
In 1969, the educational institution in Borisoglebsk receives a new name, which brought him no less fame than the name 2. From then until the beginning of 90, the educational institution was called Borisoglebsky Higher Military School of Pilots named after V.P. Chkalov. During the next stage of its work, the school produced new explorers of the heavens, among whom were, among others, outstanding pilot-cosmonauts who forged fame for the Air Force, astronautics and the whole country. One of such outstanding graduates of BVVAUL is Oleg Novitsky, pilot-cosmonaut, who on October 25 on 2012 of the Soyuz-TMA-05М crew arrived on board the International Space Station.
The presented story is far from complete, but even these few lines make it possible to draw a conclusion about how important Borisoglebsky flight crew has been for many decades for the country's defense capability and for the formation of the prestige of the pilot profession itself. Thousands of boys who aspirated uttered the names of the great Chkalov, Kamanin, Kokkinaki, Kryukov, Yumashev themselves tried to enter the glorious galaxy of Boris-Gleb cadets. Someone succeeded in this, to someone fortune was less supportive.
But the “dashing” nineties came, and at the place of the legendary BVVAUL, first there was a branch of the Voronezh Military Engineering Aviation Institute, and then an incomprehensible institution, which had a rather dubious status in terms of training military professionals, and who was preparing here is also a big question. What was going to literally bit by bit for decades, turned into a pitiful sight in just a few years. The school, graduates of which were dozens of Heroes of the Soviet Union, suddenly became unnecessary to anyone, because at the beginning of 90's we were told that the country now had no enemies, and therefore she didn't need pilots.
Today, the Borisoglebsk School has a long name: “Training Aviation Center for the training of flight personnel of the front-line bomber and assault aviation to them. V.P. Chkalov. It would seem that the revival of the glorious school is gradually beginning, but looking at how much remains to be done, it becomes clear that if you don’t roll up your sleeves now, the unique educational institution of Russia with 90-year history can finally turn into a symbol of carelessness towards people, which are designed to stand in defense of the interests of the country and its citizens.
The journalists of the Military Review publication decided to visit the Borisoglebsky Aviation Training Center and see for themselves the condition of the legendary BVVAUL today. And they saw, admittedly, without embellishment.
We approach the main PPC. Outwardly, everything looks impressive: a barrier, anti-terrorist barriers, stopping signs, a pass requirement, which, admittedly, was not ...
It was decided that it would not be possible to enter the territory, but ... Knowledgeable people suggested that if we want to get over the fence, then it is not necessary to have a pass. To do this, there is an alternative "PPC" through which anyone can pass. Such words initially caused surprise, but then we realized that people are telling the truth. "In the backyard" found a narrow corridor through which led a well-trodden path. Subsequently, we learned that the military personnel themselves use this "checkpoint" much more often than the main checkpoints - less hassle and much closer ...
A picture of a football field was opened up, pretty overgrown with grass, through which the "Lissy" trails passed towards two four-story buildings. In these buildings hundreds of Boris-Gleb cadets once lived.
We went on one of the paths, to take a closer look at what the barracks are today. They expected to see that within the framework of modernization measures, the restoration of the barracks was being carried out, but it turned out that, unfortunately, it was far from a full restoration. Only a few air conditioners and plastic windows confirmed that there are sometimes people here.
We decided to walk around the territory in the hope of chatting with the cadets about how they are being trained in the UAC, but on the territory of several tens of square kilometers they did not find a single person in uniform. Only once on a huge avenue of Heroes several women were met, who, apparently, just like us, got into the territory through an alternative “checkpoint” and hurried into the district military hospital, which miraculously survived, located on the territory of the former BVVAUL.
I was pleased at the cleanliness of the Alley of Heroes, where portraits of outstanding graduates stood out. In all likelihood, the military are trying their best to maintain relative order in the territory of the Training Center. However, the impression of cleanliness and grooming was clearly blurred by the picture of the school campus and the monument to the glorious exploits of the school graduates, who (the town and the monument) almost completely took Mother Nature into their possessions. Frequent shrub, rotten foliage and handprints of vandals made a depressing impression.
If the portrait of Valery Chkalov was still lucky, as he is in 100 m from the main checkpoint, then many others were not spared by the ferrous metal hunters. The portraits for the vandals themselves clearly do not represent any interest, but the metal upholstery of the panels, on which the portraits of the Heroes were placed at one time, is one of the goals of visiting the school by those who don't give a damn about the memory of the heroes or the school itself.
They were not even too lazy to cut the blades of the propeller standing near the monument to the soldiers who had laid down their heads during the Great Patriotic War. The base itself, apparently, could not be unscrewed from the pedestal.
Yes, and the sports training ground hunters for non-ferrous metals and gifted building materials did not go around with their annoying attention.
The emptiness in the alleys of the legendary school was frightening. The impression was that neither the hospital nor other objects on the territory of the Training Center were absolutely protected, and the external severity remained only external. Sandbags at the entrance and the opening for combat, to be honest, do not fit well with the internal emptiness of the Training Center and the availability of an alternative entrance.
In this regard, I would like to express the hope that journalistic reporting will be an occasion to enhance security on the school’s territory, because here, as has already been said, there is also a military hospital in need of serious protection.
Two views of the training center made an equally controversial impression: the view from the facade and the view from the back of the main building.
An impressive view of the facade with a bust of V.P. Chkalov on the ground in front of the Training Center:
The same building in the background of the photograph (behind the building that once served as the building of the dining room). As you can see, the repair took place only on the outside of the main academic building.
Another building on the territory of the Training Center, the restoration stage of which has not yet been approached at all.
They were pleasantly pleased when they saw the literally shining building of the House of Officers, but then it turned out that it had very little to do with the officers. Now here is a cafe-barbecue and an organization called "Centralized Club System". Announcement at the entrance invited everyone to the fur trade fair. And here the officers were deprived of their home ...
The reportage on the journalists themselves made a rather painful impression. Walking along the alleys of the educational institution in which Chkalov and Zaletin, Kamanin and Gusev, Gerasimov and Prokhorov studied, melancholy sneaking into the times when the college parade was literally buzzing with bees from hundreds of cadets who in formal uniform were preparing for diplomas when training classrooms combat generals told future lieutenants about how important knowledge of the intricacies of air combat, when the vigilant patrol did not allow idle wandering around the territory of the military university of the country.
Frankly, I hope that this period of pain in the history of the Borisoglebsk Flight School will gradually become a thing of the past. After all, it can not be so that at the legendary Higher Flight School of the country that gave the country a whole galaxy of great people, someone put a fat cross.
In preparing the historical part of the material used information from the site:
http://www.bvvaul.ru/
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