"He came pale, and does not recognize anyone"
In 1942, pilot Nikolai Kildishev did not return from a combat mission. Mother received a funeral, mourned her younger son. But then a miracle happened - a letter arrived. In a light brown, worn leather pouch from time to time, several letters from the front survived, written by military pilot Nikolai Kildishev, once resurrected from the dead.
I was tormented by doubts for a long time: whether or not to publish these letters. But today, none of the characters of the letters are dead. And the most important thing in these letters is that they still keep in themselves history a simple Russian family, which, just like other families during the war years, waited and hoped to receive precious news from their loved one.
Some lines were hard to read: these letters were read by more than one generation - great-grandchildren carefully transferred triangles and front postcards from family to family. Despite the careful attitude, some words "buried" in paper curves, and there is no way to disassemble them. And I was gripped by the fear that other lines could also disappear forever. And these letters are priceless. Reading them now, you ask yourself: what was the generation better than us? Why did the dead of our peers have more compassion and goodness? After all, they did not write about hostilities, nor about hardships and deprivations, but for the most part tried to support their loved ones and relatives spiritually. At the same time, they themselves were an example of courage and heroism - in some cases, they literally resurrected from the dead. Pilot Nikolai Kildishev was one of those who rose for his relatives.
Just before the war, in April 1941, the military unit in which Nicholas served was in the city of Proskurov (today it is the city of Khmelnitsky, Ukraine). He, like his fellow pilots, sent all letters in encrypted form. The pilots did not say - we fly, they said - we work. For example, Nikolai wrote that he returned from a business trip. In fact, it meant returning from a combat mission. "With work, things are still the same for me, but I have big changes in rank and also in salary. Or rather, I don’t have these changes - it happened to everyone who graduated from school with me. And all that it happened, it doesn’t depend on me at all. So it’s necessary. These changes, if I understand ... of course, are not in my favor. I’ll write about this in the next letter because it is unpleasant for me to talk or write on this topic for a long time. "
Obviously, this letter dealt with the fact that at the end of the school Nicholas was to receive the rank of lieutenant, but due to the accelerated completion of the training course, young pilots were given the rank of junior lieutenant and sent to the active army, to the border. Where 22 June 1941 of the year they were overtaken by war.
A month after the start of World War II, Nikolai sent a letter from the village of Vertievka. "First, I write that I am alive and well, I feel good. I sent you a letter from the village of Buzova and gave you the wrong address. But you see that now I don’t have me in Buzova. So, if you sent a letter, then I did not receive it. Now I will have a permanent address, wherever I am, the letter should get to me. Now write to the address: "Active Army, South-Western Front, VSP-15, PPS-28, 316 RAI" .
"Vertievka is a big village. Once there was a district center here. Straight streets, lots of greenery, white Ukrainian huts, a club, a school, a village council, a salinization plant, a small church. Not far away there is a railway station. The water is bad - not a river, not a pond, a forest is far away But gardens! In the spring - all in white foam of flowers, and in winter, the upper rooms filled with delicate apple spirit (from the collection “Commissioners in the firing line. 1941 — 1945 years.”, Moscow, Politizdat, 1985 year).
Nikolai does not write a word about the war. Only in the next letter he comforts his parents: “We don’t intend to fall with the spirit, on the contrary. But the German will soon or not soon, but we will break. Although he is coming now, it’s not for a long time, or rather, not even coming, but trying ... I know whether we will be here for a long time or not. Now the time is now here and tomorrow in another place. My address is now Kiev-36, p.75. "
Then there were no letters for a long time. As it turned out, Nikolai Kildishev got to the Urals.
New aviation the regiment where he continued to serve was created on October 20, 1941 in Chelyabinsk - there was a flight school and its material and technical base became the basis for arming the 688 light-bomber aviation regiment (LNBAP).
On the PZ and P-5 aircraft (they were used for reconnaissance flights and as light bombers), Soviet pilots fought in the skies near Moscow. It should be emphasized that the aircraft Polikarpov, created in 30-ies, no longer answered combat missions. "These aircraft as combat vehicles were used only in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, since by that time they were already outdated" (Dmitry Kolosov, "Planes of N.N. Polikarpov").
But despite the technical imperfections, the pilots flew PZ and P-5 aircraft in the 1942 year. In the summer of 1942, to the beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad, new attack aircraft Il-2 began to come into service. Therefore, the regiment was transformed into the 688 th Assault Aviation Regiment (SHAP).
As it follows from archival sources, "in December 1941 - January 1942 the regiment was transferred to Datkovo airfield, then to Obukhovo, from where the enemy grouping Rzhev was destroyed. It was part of the 38 of the mixed aviation division. And with the 28 February the 1942 regiment was February was part of the 39 Army's air force. By the summer of 1942, the regiment received Il-2 airplanes and was converted to 688 SHAP. Since May, 1942 was part of the 228 ShAD. In July, the 1942 regiment went to the Stalingrad front, flying from the airfield to the airfield, and took part in the Battle of Stalingrad. "
The regiment commander was Maxim Gavrilovich Sklyarov, Nikolai Kildishev’s countryman.
"And now the guard, Lieutenant Colonel Maxim Sklyarov led a group of attack aircraft, consisting of six aircraft, to a cluster of enemy tanks. Weather conditions were difficult. The height could not be gained due to the dense haze. Involuntarily had to snuggle to the ground, the benefit that did not come across tall belfries, factory chimneys and spiers of buildings. On approaching the target it was possible to increase the height. No matter how well the tanks were disguised, the host quickly discovered them. The steaming field kitchen helped with the rare line. The Germans did not expect the appearance of "Ilov" at such an early hour, and even in such weather. Sklyarovtsy always tried to take the Nazis by surprise, knowing that often won two or three minutes can decide the outcome of the attack. It happened here too. Creating a panic, shackling the initiative, paralyzing several heavy armored vehicles from the first call, the guards deployed attack aircraft for the new call "(Veniamin Anisimovich Kolykhalov," Avalanche of Fire ").
Nikolai Kildishev also fought in the sky of Stalingrad. He did not return from the October 14 1942 combat mission of the year. Reports on irretrievable losses contain information that the junior lieutenant pilot Nikolai Nikolaevich Kildishev 1919 was born missing.
Nikolai Kildishev's mother received the first burial on him.
But then a miracle happened - a letter came from Nicholas.
On the preserved yellowed sheets, you can trace the entire path of the letter: on it stood numerous prints of various departments where the letter fell. First, there was a stamp "Viewed by 03069 military censorship". The number meant the department of the Office of the field mail, which looked through the text of the letter.
Letters were delivered by the USSR Field Mail - another small round stamp testified to this.
The sender's address remained unchanged - field mail No. XXUMX.
"Hello, my dear siblings, my mother, my brothers and sisters, all my relatives! I am writing to you after a long break a letter and do not know whether you will receive it or not. Is there anyone in Taganrog or not? I still I don’t know if you stayed in Taganrog or were evacuated. I tried to find out the address, wrote to Buguruslan (a city in the Orenburg region), but I didn’t know anything. Now that our Taganrog is free, and this beast is running, and already far from Taganrog, I decided write a letter to my old native address. Tears stand in my eyes: during these two years I have not I didn't get a letter from you, my parents, my relatives, and it often hurt me when my friends received letters from my father, mother, brothers and sisters, but I didn't get it. Now I am writing a letter and I hope that someone but he will be caught in Taganrog. If not, and I will not get an answer, I don’t know what to do. Sadness and concern for my home remains. "
At that time, the relatives of Nikolai Kildishev were evacuated in the Omsk Region, the post office in the first years of the war worked very hard, and many letters were irretrievably lost. But in 1944, the mail began to work well and relatives could more often receive precious news from the front.
So, we will deploy another front-triangle letter, which was written by the pilot Nikolai Kildishev 10 on April 1944, to his brother Jore. At this time, Nikolai Kildishev was treated at the hospital: he was wounded in the arm.
He had only about three months to live. But no one in the world knew about this.
While waiting for the military medical commission, Nikolay wrote to his brother: “Hello, Zhora! I received a third letter from Nana today. And from you I did not even get an answer to my letter. Therefore, I decided to write more, although there is nothing to write, because there are no there are no changes, but there is no decision of the commission, because I haven’t been on the commission. My health is still good, there are no special cases. I’m going to go to the commission the other day. The weather is bad, I’m waiting for better, I have everything. Write , how are you, how are you health? How is the situation with the relocation, or else they write, mother worries I’m waiting for an answer from you. Give me my regards to Polina. It seems I don’t know anyone else. Let him write. Bye bye! Hold my hand tight and kiss you. "
Nikolai Kildishev never wrote in his letters that he was flying on airplanes. He used other words to tell about himself. "I was on the commission. They recognized that they were fit for their profession without restrictions. So I will be at the old place. I haven’t started work yet. But soon, probably, I will start working, then I will write. My hand seems to be nothing, it doesn’t hurt, it gains strength, I don’t know how it will be when I start working. "
This meant that he had successfully passed the military-medical commission, would fight in his regiment and would soon start flying, that is, “work.”
He worked well.
Guards Junior Lieutenant Nikolai Nikolayevich Kildishev was awarded the Order of the Red Star in January 1944 for the exemplary performance of combat missions in the fight against the German invaders.
And in the middle of 1944, the Bobruisk-Baranovich operation began on the front, the main goal of which was the liberation of the cities of Bobruisk, Baranavichy and other settlements. The offensive began on 24 June 1944 of the year.
"Sklyarovsky regiment received orders from the army command to control the highways Rogachev - Bobruisk, Zhlobin - Bobruisk. But the overcast weather did not allow flying in large groups. From the airfield based in Bronny, not far from the Dnieper, they flew on missions in pairs ... They bombed the road Bobruisk - Rogachev The Germans threw select divisions to the Dnieper. The pilots had not seen such a cluster of vehicles and wagons for a long time. The Messers and Fokkers guarded the road. For a long time the pilots did not encounter such hostile enemy as Dnieper had these days Orok fourth year. Each of our couple was surrounded by six to eight fighters. The fire from the ground was intense. Walling soaring shells blocked the way. When the time went silent land guns, fired fighters "(Kolykhalov Benjamin Anisimovich," Fire avalanche ").
Two days after an offensive in the sky near the village of Korolevskaya Sloboda in the direction of the city of Baranavichy (today this village is in the Krasnovsky village council of the Svetlogorsk district of the Gomel region of Belarus), an air battle took place. The detailed circumstances of this battle over the prescription of years have not been preserved. In this battle, Nikolai Kildishev was killed.
The second funeral for the pilot Nikolai Kildishev came in July 1944 of the year. Here is the literal text: “Your son, 59 pilot of the Guards Assault Aviation Red Banner Guards Regiment, Lieutenant Nikolai Nikolayevich Kildishev, born in the Rostov region, the city of Taganrog, being at the front, in the fight with the German invaders 26, June 1944 did not return from the combat mission from the region The Royal Sloboda of the Gomel Region was shot down by an enemy fighter. "
At the bottom of the document there were two signatures: "The commander of the 59 GShAKP is Hero of the Soviet Union Guards Lieutenant Colonel Sklyarov. The Chief of Staff is the Guard Major Fedorov."
Maxim Gavrilovich Sklyarov headed the 59 regiment from the 1942 year and successfully brought him to Berlin as part of the 2 th Guards ground attack aviation division of the 16 th Air Army of the 1 Belorussian Front.
Relatives of the deceased pilot, having received another funeral, could not reconcile with this, his, now real death. Moreover, he dreamed about them. Here is how his wife, Maria, who also fought at the front, writes about this: “Mom, are you asking what you hear about Kolya? So far I haven't heard anything. And no one knows anything. Only I dreamed of something today and saw him in He came pale and did not recognize anyone. Mom, you ask how he flew before. He flew to the training once and he felt worse in his hand. And then on the second day he flew on the mission and never returned. that I know. Mom, but it seems to me that our Nick will be back. I don’t know whether my heart correctly suggests or not. " And in the second letter from Maria, too little consolation: "Now, dear Mommy, today saw the beloved Ringlet in a dream. It was so good. But I woke up, but he was not there. A great feeling about Kolya took half of my life away from me."
Relatives and friends tried to find out the circumstances of the death of their husband and son, but nothing came of them. "I sent requests to the Royal Quarter, but they return because I did not indicate the area. But I do not know what this area is," said Maroussia’s wife, the mother of the pilot.
Relatives lived in hope. But every year it became clear that Nikolai really died and would not soar into the sky to smash the enemy. He did not find out that for taking the city of Bobruisk by order of the Supreme Command no. 132 from 8 in July 1944, the 59 th assault aviation regiment was given the honorary title “Baranovichsky”. And the 1945 th Guards Ground Attack Aviation Baranavichy Red Banner Order of Suvorov, III Degree, the regiment celebrated its victory in 59 in Germany. Nikolai Kildishev, like his thousands of compatriots, gave his life for this great Victory.
I was tormented by doubts for a long time: whether or not to publish these letters. But today, none of the characters of the letters are dead. And the most important thing in these letters is that they still keep in themselves history a simple Russian family, which, just like other families during the war years, waited and hoped to receive precious news from their loved one.
Some lines were hard to read: these letters were read by more than one generation - great-grandchildren carefully transferred triangles and front postcards from family to family. Despite the careful attitude, some words "buried" in paper curves, and there is no way to disassemble them. And I was gripped by the fear that other lines could also disappear forever. And these letters are priceless. Reading them now, you ask yourself: what was the generation better than us? Why did the dead of our peers have more compassion and goodness? After all, they did not write about hostilities, nor about hardships and deprivations, but for the most part tried to support their loved ones and relatives spiritually. At the same time, they themselves were an example of courage and heroism - in some cases, they literally resurrected from the dead. Pilot Nikolai Kildishev was one of those who rose for his relatives.
Just before the war, in April 1941, the military unit in which Nicholas served was in the city of Proskurov (today it is the city of Khmelnitsky, Ukraine). He, like his fellow pilots, sent all letters in encrypted form. The pilots did not say - we fly, they said - we work. For example, Nikolai wrote that he returned from a business trip. In fact, it meant returning from a combat mission. "With work, things are still the same for me, but I have big changes in rank and also in salary. Or rather, I don’t have these changes - it happened to everyone who graduated from school with me. And all that it happened, it doesn’t depend on me at all. So it’s necessary. These changes, if I understand ... of course, are not in my favor. I’ll write about this in the next letter because it is unpleasant for me to talk or write on this topic for a long time. "
Obviously, this letter dealt with the fact that at the end of the school Nicholas was to receive the rank of lieutenant, but due to the accelerated completion of the training course, young pilots were given the rank of junior lieutenant and sent to the active army, to the border. Where 22 June 1941 of the year they were overtaken by war.
A month after the start of World War II, Nikolai sent a letter from the village of Vertievka. "First, I write that I am alive and well, I feel good. I sent you a letter from the village of Buzova and gave you the wrong address. But you see that now I don’t have me in Buzova. So, if you sent a letter, then I did not receive it. Now I will have a permanent address, wherever I am, the letter should get to me. Now write to the address: "Active Army, South-Western Front, VSP-15, PPS-28, 316 RAI" .
"Vertievka is a big village. Once there was a district center here. Straight streets, lots of greenery, white Ukrainian huts, a club, a school, a village council, a salinization plant, a small church. Not far away there is a railway station. The water is bad - not a river, not a pond, a forest is far away But gardens! In the spring - all in white foam of flowers, and in winter, the upper rooms filled with delicate apple spirit (from the collection “Commissioners in the firing line. 1941 — 1945 years.”, Moscow, Politizdat, 1985 year).
Nikolai does not write a word about the war. Only in the next letter he comforts his parents: “We don’t intend to fall with the spirit, on the contrary. But the German will soon or not soon, but we will break. Although he is coming now, it’s not for a long time, or rather, not even coming, but trying ... I know whether we will be here for a long time or not. Now the time is now here and tomorrow in another place. My address is now Kiev-36, p.75. "
Then there were no letters for a long time. As it turned out, Nikolai Kildishev got to the Urals.
New aviation the regiment where he continued to serve was created on October 20, 1941 in Chelyabinsk - there was a flight school and its material and technical base became the basis for arming the 688 light-bomber aviation regiment (LNBAP).
On the PZ and P-5 aircraft (they were used for reconnaissance flights and as light bombers), Soviet pilots fought in the skies near Moscow. It should be emphasized that the aircraft Polikarpov, created in 30-ies, no longer answered combat missions. "These aircraft as combat vehicles were used only in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, since by that time they were already outdated" (Dmitry Kolosov, "Planes of N.N. Polikarpov").
But despite the technical imperfections, the pilots flew PZ and P-5 aircraft in the 1942 year. In the summer of 1942, to the beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad, new attack aircraft Il-2 began to come into service. Therefore, the regiment was transformed into the 688 th Assault Aviation Regiment (SHAP).
As it follows from archival sources, "in December 1941 - January 1942 the regiment was transferred to Datkovo airfield, then to Obukhovo, from where the enemy grouping Rzhev was destroyed. It was part of the 38 of the mixed aviation division. And with the 28 February the 1942 regiment was February was part of the 39 Army's air force. By the summer of 1942, the regiment received Il-2 airplanes and was converted to 688 SHAP. Since May, 1942 was part of the 228 ShAD. In July, the 1942 regiment went to the Stalingrad front, flying from the airfield to the airfield, and took part in the Battle of Stalingrad. "
The regiment commander was Maxim Gavrilovich Sklyarov, Nikolai Kildishev’s countryman.
"And now the guard, Lieutenant Colonel Maxim Sklyarov led a group of attack aircraft, consisting of six aircraft, to a cluster of enemy tanks. Weather conditions were difficult. The height could not be gained due to the dense haze. Involuntarily had to snuggle to the ground, the benefit that did not come across tall belfries, factory chimneys and spiers of buildings. On approaching the target it was possible to increase the height. No matter how well the tanks were disguised, the host quickly discovered them. The steaming field kitchen helped with the rare line. The Germans did not expect the appearance of "Ilov" at such an early hour, and even in such weather. Sklyarovtsy always tried to take the Nazis by surprise, knowing that often won two or three minutes can decide the outcome of the attack. It happened here too. Creating a panic, shackling the initiative, paralyzing several heavy armored vehicles from the first call, the guards deployed attack aircraft for the new call "(Veniamin Anisimovich Kolykhalov," Avalanche of Fire ").
Nikolai Kildishev also fought in the sky of Stalingrad. He did not return from the October 14 1942 combat mission of the year. Reports on irretrievable losses contain information that the junior lieutenant pilot Nikolai Nikolaevich Kildishev 1919 was born missing.
Nikolai Kildishev's mother received the first burial on him.
But then a miracle happened - a letter came from Nicholas.
On the preserved yellowed sheets, you can trace the entire path of the letter: on it stood numerous prints of various departments where the letter fell. First, there was a stamp "Viewed by 03069 military censorship". The number meant the department of the Office of the field mail, which looked through the text of the letter.
Letters were delivered by the USSR Field Mail - another small round stamp testified to this.
The sender's address remained unchanged - field mail No. XXUMX.
"Hello, my dear siblings, my mother, my brothers and sisters, all my relatives! I am writing to you after a long break a letter and do not know whether you will receive it or not. Is there anyone in Taganrog or not? I still I don’t know if you stayed in Taganrog or were evacuated. I tried to find out the address, wrote to Buguruslan (a city in the Orenburg region), but I didn’t know anything. Now that our Taganrog is free, and this beast is running, and already far from Taganrog, I decided write a letter to my old native address. Tears stand in my eyes: during these two years I have not I didn't get a letter from you, my parents, my relatives, and it often hurt me when my friends received letters from my father, mother, brothers and sisters, but I didn't get it. Now I am writing a letter and I hope that someone but he will be caught in Taganrog. If not, and I will not get an answer, I don’t know what to do. Sadness and concern for my home remains. "
At that time, the relatives of Nikolai Kildishev were evacuated in the Omsk Region, the post office in the first years of the war worked very hard, and many letters were irretrievably lost. But in 1944, the mail began to work well and relatives could more often receive precious news from the front.
So, we will deploy another front-triangle letter, which was written by the pilot Nikolai Kildishev 10 on April 1944, to his brother Jore. At this time, Nikolai Kildishev was treated at the hospital: he was wounded in the arm.
He had only about three months to live. But no one in the world knew about this.
While waiting for the military medical commission, Nikolay wrote to his brother: “Hello, Zhora! I received a third letter from Nana today. And from you I did not even get an answer to my letter. Therefore, I decided to write more, although there is nothing to write, because there are no there are no changes, but there is no decision of the commission, because I haven’t been on the commission. My health is still good, there are no special cases. I’m going to go to the commission the other day. The weather is bad, I’m waiting for better, I have everything. Write , how are you, how are you health? How is the situation with the relocation, or else they write, mother worries I’m waiting for an answer from you. Give me my regards to Polina. It seems I don’t know anyone else. Let him write. Bye bye! Hold my hand tight and kiss you. "
Nikolai Kildishev never wrote in his letters that he was flying on airplanes. He used other words to tell about himself. "I was on the commission. They recognized that they were fit for their profession without restrictions. So I will be at the old place. I haven’t started work yet. But soon, probably, I will start working, then I will write. My hand seems to be nothing, it doesn’t hurt, it gains strength, I don’t know how it will be when I start working. "
This meant that he had successfully passed the military-medical commission, would fight in his regiment and would soon start flying, that is, “work.”
He worked well.
Guards Junior Lieutenant Nikolai Nikolayevich Kildishev was awarded the Order of the Red Star in January 1944 for the exemplary performance of combat missions in the fight against the German invaders.
And in the middle of 1944, the Bobruisk-Baranovich operation began on the front, the main goal of which was the liberation of the cities of Bobruisk, Baranavichy and other settlements. The offensive began on 24 June 1944 of the year.
"Sklyarovsky regiment received orders from the army command to control the highways Rogachev - Bobruisk, Zhlobin - Bobruisk. But the overcast weather did not allow flying in large groups. From the airfield based in Bronny, not far from the Dnieper, they flew on missions in pairs ... They bombed the road Bobruisk - Rogachev The Germans threw select divisions to the Dnieper. The pilots had not seen such a cluster of vehicles and wagons for a long time. The Messers and Fokkers guarded the road. For a long time the pilots did not encounter such hostile enemy as Dnieper had these days Orok fourth year. Each of our couple was surrounded by six to eight fighters. The fire from the ground was intense. Walling soaring shells blocked the way. When the time went silent land guns, fired fighters "(Kolykhalov Benjamin Anisimovich," Fire avalanche ").
Two days after an offensive in the sky near the village of Korolevskaya Sloboda in the direction of the city of Baranavichy (today this village is in the Krasnovsky village council of the Svetlogorsk district of the Gomel region of Belarus), an air battle took place. The detailed circumstances of this battle over the prescription of years have not been preserved. In this battle, Nikolai Kildishev was killed.
The second funeral for the pilot Nikolai Kildishev came in July 1944 of the year. Here is the literal text: “Your son, 59 pilot of the Guards Assault Aviation Red Banner Guards Regiment, Lieutenant Nikolai Nikolayevich Kildishev, born in the Rostov region, the city of Taganrog, being at the front, in the fight with the German invaders 26, June 1944 did not return from the combat mission from the region The Royal Sloboda of the Gomel Region was shot down by an enemy fighter. "
At the bottom of the document there were two signatures: "The commander of the 59 GShAKP is Hero of the Soviet Union Guards Lieutenant Colonel Sklyarov. The Chief of Staff is the Guard Major Fedorov."
Maxim Gavrilovich Sklyarov headed the 59 regiment from the 1942 year and successfully brought him to Berlin as part of the 2 th Guards ground attack aviation division of the 16 th Air Army of the 1 Belorussian Front.
Relatives of the deceased pilot, having received another funeral, could not reconcile with this, his, now real death. Moreover, he dreamed about them. Here is how his wife, Maria, who also fought at the front, writes about this: “Mom, are you asking what you hear about Kolya? So far I haven't heard anything. And no one knows anything. Only I dreamed of something today and saw him in He came pale and did not recognize anyone. Mom, you ask how he flew before. He flew to the training once and he felt worse in his hand. And then on the second day he flew on the mission and never returned. that I know. Mom, but it seems to me that our Nick will be back. I don’t know whether my heart correctly suggests or not. " And in the second letter from Maria, too little consolation: "Now, dear Mommy, today saw the beloved Ringlet in a dream. It was so good. But I woke up, but he was not there. A great feeling about Kolya took half of my life away from me."
Relatives and friends tried to find out the circumstances of the death of their husband and son, but nothing came of them. "I sent requests to the Royal Quarter, but they return because I did not indicate the area. But I do not know what this area is," said Maroussia’s wife, the mother of the pilot.
Relatives lived in hope. But every year it became clear that Nikolai really died and would not soar into the sky to smash the enemy. He did not find out that for taking the city of Bobruisk by order of the Supreme Command no. 132 from 8 in July 1944, the 59 th assault aviation regiment was given the honorary title “Baranovichsky”. And the 1945 th Guards Ground Attack Aviation Baranavichy Red Banner Order of Suvorov, III Degree, the regiment celebrated its victory in 59 in Germany. Nikolai Kildishev, like his thousands of compatriots, gave his life for this great Victory.
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