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Alexander Vasilievich Belyakov(1897-1982) - navigator, teacher at the N. E. Zhukovsky Air Force Academy and head of the military department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1936), lieutenant general of aviation.
Biography
Born in the Guslitsky village of Bezzubovo (now in the Orekhovo-Zuevsky district of the Moscow region) in the family of a teacher Vasily Grigoryevich Belyakov. Russian.
He spent his childhood and youth in his father's homeland, in Ryazan. Graduated from high school. In 1915-1916 he studied at the Petrograd Forestry Institute.
In the army since 1916. In 1917 he graduated from the Alexander Infantry School in Moscow. Member of the Civil War in the 25th Infantry Division (Eastern Front). Subsequently, because of this, he received the nickname "Chapai" from V.P. Chkalov.
In 1921 he graduated from the Moscow aerial photogrammetric school and worked there as a teacher. In 1930-1935 - teacher, head of the air navigation department of the N. Ye. Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. In 1936 he graduated from the Kachin Military Aviation Pilot School as an external student.
On July 20-22, 1936, on an ANT-25 aircraft, as a navigator (commander - V.P. Chkalov, co-pilot - G.F. Baidukov) made a non-stop flight from Moscow across the Arctic Ocean, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Udd Island (now - Chkalov Island) with a length of 9374 km. On June 18-20, 1937, on an ANT-25 aircraft, as a navigator in the same crew, he made the world's first non-stop flight Moscow-North Pole-Vancouver (USA) with a length of 8504 km.
In 1936-1939 he was the flag-navigator of the Special Purpose Aviation (AON), in 1939-1940 he was the flag-navigator of the Red Army Air Force. Since 1940 - Deputy Head of the Air Force Academy (Monino), then - Head of the Ryazan Higher School of Air Force Navigators.
During the Great Patriotic War, he continued to lead the Ryazan Higher School of Air Force Navigators. In the spring of 1945, he took part in the Berlin operation as the chief navigator of the 16th Air Army. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the SSR in 1937-1946.
In 1945-1960 he was the head of the navigation department of the Air Force Academy (Monino). Since 1960 - retired.
Since 1960 he was a professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, in 1961-1969 he headed the military department of the institute. Author of many scientific papers on air navigation.
Lived in Moscow. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
Awards and Titles
- For the performance of a non-stop flight Moscow - Udd Island and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, Belyakov Alexander Vasilyevich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on July 24, 1936 with the award of the Order of Lenin. Later, after the establishment, the Gold Star medal No. 9 was awarded.
- He was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin, 3 Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, 2 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, 3 Orders of the Red Star, and medals.
- Lieutenant General of Aviation (1943), Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1938).
Artworks
- Belyakov A. V. V. Chkalov. - M., 1974.
- Belyakov A. V. In flight through the years. 1988.
Memory
- An island in the Sea of Okhotsk, streets in Moscow, Mogilev, Mariupol, Melitopol and other cities are named after him. Peak on the Bogossky Range (Dagestan).
- In Ryazan, a street was named after the pilot and a bust was erected on September 17, 2010. In October 2010, the bust was smashed by vandals. The bust was soon restored.
- In 1986, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the flight Moscow - Udd Island, a monument to its participants was erected on the island.
Sources
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. Collegium I. N. Shkadov. - M .: Military Publishing House, 1987. - T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN out., Reg. No. in RCP 87-95382.
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Alexander Vasilievich Belyakov(-) - navigator, teacher at the N. E. Zhukovsky Air Force Academy and head of the military department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (), lieutenant general of aviation.
Biography
He spent his childhood and youth in his father's homeland, in Ryazan. Graduated from high school. In 1915-1916 he studied at.
An excerpt characterizing Belyakov, Alexander Vasilievich (pilot)
- I've thought of something! - Stella whispered joyfully in the old fashioned way. - We can make him happy! .. We just need to look for someone here! ..You mean his wife, right? I must admit I had the same thought. Do you think it's not too early? .. Maybe we'll let him at least get used to it here first?
“Wouldn’t you like to see them alive if you were in his place?” Stella was immediately indignant.
“You are right, as always,” I smiled at my friend.
We slowly “floated” along the silvery path, trying not to disturb someone else’s sadness and let everyone enjoy peace after everything experienced on this nightmarish day. The children slowly came to life, enthusiastically watching the marvelous landscapes floating past them. And only Arno was obviously very far from all of us, wandering in his, perhaps, very happy memory, which caused on his refined, and such a beautiful face, an amazingly warm and tender smile...
You see, he must have loved them very much! And you say - early! .. Well, let's look! - Stella did not want to calm down.
“Okay, let it be your way,” I agreed easily, because now it seemed right to me too.
- Tell me, Arno, what did your wife look like? I started cautiously. “If it doesn’t hurt you too much to talk about it, of course.
He looked into my eyes very surprised, as if asking, how do I know that he had a wife? ..
- It just so happened that we saw, but only the very end ... It was so scary! Stella immediately added.
I was afraid that the transition from his marvelous dreams to a terrible reality turned out to be too cruel, but “the word is not a bird, you won’t catch it,” it was too late to change something, and we just had to wait if he wanted to answer. To my great surprise, his face lit up even more with happiness, and he answered very affectionately:
- Oh, she was a real angel! .. She had such wonderful blond hair! .. And her eyes ... Blue and clear, like dew ... Oh, what a pity that you did not see her, my dear Michelle!. .
- Did you have another daughter? Stella asked cautiously.
- Daughter? Arno asked in surprise and, realizing what we saw, immediately added. - Oh no! It was her sister. She was only sixteen...
Such a frightening, such a terrible pain suddenly flashed in his eyes, that only now I suddenly realized how much this unfortunate person suffered! bright past and "erase" from his memory all the horror of that last terrible day, as far as his wounded and weakened soul allowed him to do this ...
We tried to find Michelle - for some reason it didn’t work ... Stella stared at me in surprise and asked quietly:
“Why can’t I find her, did she die here too?”
It seemed to me that something simply prevented us from finding her on this “floor” and I suggested Stella to look “higher”. We slipped mentally onto the Mental... and saw her at once... She really was amazingly beautiful - bright and clean, like a stream. And long golden hair scattered over her shoulders like a golden cloak... I have never seen such long and such beautiful hair! The girl was deeply thoughtful and sad, like many on the "floors" who lost their love, their relatives, or simply because they were alone ...
- Hello, Michel! - Without wasting time, Stella immediately said. - And we have prepared a gift for you!
The woman smiled in surprise and kindly asked:
- Who are you girls?
But without answering her, Stella mentally called Arno...
I won't be able to tell what this meeting brought them... And it's not necessary. Such happiness cannot be put into words - they will fade ... It's just that at that moment there were probably no happier people in the whole world, and on all "floors"! .. And we sincerely rejoiced with them, not forgetting those who they owed their happiness... I think that both little Maria and our kind Luminary would be very happy seeing them now, and knowing that they did not give their lives for them in vain...
Stella suddenly became alarmed and disappeared somewhere. I followed her, as there was nothing more for us to do here ...
"And where did you all disappear to?" - Surprised, but very calmly, Maya greeted us with a question. “We already thought you left us for good. And where is our new friend? .. Has he really disappeared too? .. We thought he would take us with him ...
There was a problem... Where to put these unfortunate kids now - I had not the slightest idea. Stella looked at me, thinking the same thing, and desperately trying to find some way out.
- I figured it out! - already just like the "old" Stella, she happily clapped her hands. “We will make a joyful world for them in which they will exist. And there, look, they will meet someone ... Or someone good will pick them up.
“Don’t you think we should introduce them to someone here?” - trying to “more securely” attach lonely kids, I asked.
“No, I don’t think so,” the friend answered very seriously. – Think for yourself, because not all dead babies get this... And not everyone here, probably, has time to take care of. So it will be fair to the others if we just create a very nice home for them here until they find someone. After all, the three of them, it is easier for them. And others are alone ... I was also alone, I remember ...
And suddenly, apparently remembering that terrible time, she became confused and sad ... and somehow unprotected. Wanting to immediately bring her back, I mentally brought down a waterfall of incredible fantastic flowers on her ...
- Ouch! Stella laughed like a bell. - Well, what are you! .. Stop it!
- Stop being sad! I didn't give up. - We won, how much more needs to be done, and you are limp. Well, let's go arrange the children! ..
And then, quite unexpectedly, Arno appeared again. We stared at him in surprise... afraid to ask. I even had time to think - did something terrible happen again? .. But he looked "incredibly" happy, so I immediately discarded the stupid thought.
– And what are you doing here?!.. – Stella was sincerely surprised.
- Have you forgotten - I have to pick up the kids, I promised them.
- Where is Michelle? Are you not together?
- Well, why not together? Together, of course! I just promised ... Yes, and she always loved children. So we decided to stay together until a new life takes them.
- So it's wonderful! Stella rejoiced. And then she jumped to another one. - You're very happy, aren't you? Well, tell me, are you happy? She is so beautiful!!!..
Arno looked into our eyes for a long time and attentively, as if wanting, but not daring to say something. Then I finally decided...
– I cannot accept this happiness from you... It is not mine... This is wrong... I am not yet worthy of it.
In the army since 1916. In 1917 he graduated from the Alexander Infantry School in Moscow. Member of the Civil War in the 25th Infantry Division (Eastern Front). In 1921 he graduated from the Moscow aerial photogrammetric school and worked there as a teacher. In 1930-1935 - teacher, head of the air navigation department of the Air Force Academy named after N.E. Zhukovsky. In 1936 he graduated from the Kachin VASHL as an external student.
July 20-22, 1936 on the ANT-25 aircraft as a navigator (commander - V.P. Chkalov, co-pilot - G.F. Baidukov) made a non-stop flight from Moscow across the Arctic Ocean, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Udd Island (now - Chkalov Island) with a length of 9374 km.
The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov on July 24, 1936 for performing this flight and showing courage and heroism.
In 1937, on an ANT-25 aircraft, as a navigator as part of the same crew, he made the world's first non-stop flight Moscow-North Pole-Vancouver (USA) with a length of 8504 km.
In 1936-1939 - the flag-navigator of the Special Purpose Aviation (AON), in 1939-1940 - the flag-navigator of the Red Army Air Force. Since 1940 - Deputy Head of the Military Military Aviation Administration (now - the Military Military Aviation Administration named after Yu.A. Gagarin), then - Head of the Ryazan Higher School of Air Force Navigators.
During the Great Patriotic War, Major General Belyakov A.V. Head of the Ryazan Higher School of Air Force Navigators. In 1945, Lieutenant General of Aviation Belyakov A.V. He took part in the Berlin operation as the chief navigator of the 16th Air Army.
In 1945-1960 he was the head of the navigation department of the Air Force Academy. Since 1960 - Lieutenant General of Aviation Belyakov A.V. retired.
Since 1960 - professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, headed the military department. Author of many scientific papers on air navigation. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st convocation.
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Belyakov Alexander Vasilievich - flag-navigator of the 1st Special Purpose Army, military engineer of the 1st rank.
Born on December 8 (20), 1897 in the village of Bezzubovo, Ilyinsky volost, Bogorodsky district, Moscow province (now Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, Moscow region). Russian. In 1898-1903 he lived in the village of Bolshie Dvory (now the village of Pavlovo-Posadsky district of the Moscow region), since 1903 - in the village of Subbotino (nowadays Pavlovsky Posadsky district). In 1907 he graduated from a rural school, in 1915 - the 1st Ryazan Men's Gymnasium, in 1916 - the 1st year of the Petrograd Forest Institute (now the city of St. Petersburg).
In the Russian Imperial Army since October 1916. In February 1917 he graduated from the Alexander Infantry School in Moscow. He served as a junior officer in a company of the 215th reserve rifle regiment (in the city of Vladimir).
Member of the First World War: in July-December 1917 - junior officer and head of the sapper team of the 4th Caucasian Rifle Regiment; ensign. Fought on the Western Front.
In May 1918 - February 1919 - Secretary of the Forestry Department of the Executive Committee of the Bogorodsk District Council of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies (now the city of Noginsk, Moscow Region).
In the Red Army since February 1919. In April 1919 he graduated from the Moscow Gas Engineering Courses.
Member of the Civil War: in May 1919 - January 1920 - head of gas defense and adjutant of the 3rd artillery battalion of the 25th rifle division. Fought on the Eastern and Ural fronts. Participated in battles with the troops of A.V. Kolchak and the Ural White Cossacks. On January 8, 1920, he fell ill with typhus and until February 1920 was in a hospital in the city of Novouzensk (now the Saratov region).
In April-July 1920, he was a clerk and head of the artillery department of the engineering and technical troops of the headquarters of the North Caucasian Military District.
In 1921 he graduated from the Moscow aerial photogrammetric school. In 1921-1930 he was a laboratory technician and head of an aerological station, head of the aeronautical department and assistant head of the educational department of the Moscow aerial photogrammetric school (since 1923 - the Military Aviation School of the Special Service). In 1924 he graduated in absentia from the Moscow Forestry Institute. Since 1930 - a teacher of air navigation, and in April-August 1935 - head of the navigation service department of the N.E. Zhukovsky Air Force Academy.
In the spring of 1935, he was seconded from the academy to prepare for a transarctic flight on an ANT-25 aircraft (an unsuccessful flight attempt took place on August 20, 1935, A.V. Belyakov did not participate in it). In December 1935, he graduated from the Kachin Military Aviation Pilot School as an external student.
On July 20-22, 1936, on an ANT-25 aircraft, as a navigator (commander -, co-pilot -) made a non-stop flight from Moscow across the Arctic Ocean and the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Udd Island (now Chkalov Island) with a length of 9.374 kilometers (flight time 56 hours 20 minutes).
For courage and heroism shown during the performance of an ultra-long flight, by the Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of July 24, 1936 to a military engineer of the 1st rank Belyakov Alexander Vasilievich awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin.
On June 18-20, 1937, on an ANT-25 aircraft, as a navigator in the same crew, he made the world's first non-stop flight Moscow - the North Pole - Vancouver (USA) with a length of 8.504 kilometers.
In January-November 1939 - flag-navigator of the Red Army Air Forces, in 1939-1940 - head of the 4th department of the 1st Directorate of the Red Army Air Forces.
Member of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940.
In April-September 1940 - Deputy Head of the Air Force Academy for scientific and educational work (Monino), in September 1940 - March 1942 - Head of the 1st Ryazan Higher School of Air Force Navigators.
In 1942-1944 he was the head of the 1st Higher School of Navigators and Pilots of the Long-Range Aviation, which was evacuated in the cities of Karshi (Uzbekistan) and Troitsk (Chelyabinsk region). In 1944-1945 he was the head of the 1st Ryazan Higher Officer's School of Night Crews of Long-Range Aviation.
Member of the Great Patriotic War: in February-March 1945, he underwent combat training as deputy commander of the 2nd Air Army (1st Ukrainian Front), and in April-May 1945 - as chief navigator of the 16th Air Army (1st and Belorussian Front). Participated in the Lower Silesian and Berlin operations.
In June 1945 - August 1960 - head of the navigation department of the Air Force Academy (Monino). In April 1955, he participated in the work of the high-latitude expedition "North-7", during which he made 4 long-range flights on a Tu-4 aircraft to test the BK-63 automatic astrocompass. Since August 1960, Lieutenant General of Aviation A.V. Belyakov - retired.
He worked at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology: vice-rector for scientific and educational work (January-September 1961), head of the military department (1961-1969) and professor of the military department of the institute (since 1969).
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st convocation (in 1937-1946).
Lieutenant General of Aviation (1943), Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1938), Professor (1960). Awarded 2 Orders of Lenin (07/24/1936; 02/21/1945), 3 Orders of the Red Banner (08/09/1937; 11/3/1944; 06/20/1949), Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree (08/18/1945), 2 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (10/31/1967; 12/20/1977), 3 orders of the Red Star (05/25/1936; 03/25/1943; 10/28/1967), medals.
Honorary citizen of the cities of Noginsk (1971) and Nikolaevsk-on-Amur (1981).
An island in the Sea of Okhotsk, a mountain peak in Dagestan, a school in Noginsk, streets in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Ryazan, Mogilev, Mariupol, Melitopol and other cities are named after him. In Moscow and the village of Pochinki, memorial plaques were installed on the houses in which he lived.
Note: The documents contain an erroneous date of birth - December 21, 1897, according to the new style.
Compositions:
Our flight on ANT-25 (co-authored). M., 1936
Three days in the air (co-authored). M., 1937; From Moscow to America via the North Pole. M., 1938;
Two flights. M., 1939;
Valery Chkalov. M., 1974;
Valery Chkalov. 2nd edition. M., 1977;
Through the North Pole to America. M., 1980;
Flying through the years M., 1981;
Through the North Pole to America. 2nd edition. M., 1982;
Valery Chkalov. 3rd edition. M., 1987;
Flying through the years 2nd edition. M., 1988.Military ranks:
Military engineer 1st rank
Brigadier (07/27/1937)
Kombrig (02/22/1938)
Major General of Aviation (06/04/1940)
Aviation Lieutenant General (03/25/1943)
Petrova V.N.,
director of the municipal educational institution "Bezzubovskaya basic school".
Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov was born on December 8 (December 21), 1897 in the village of Bezzubovo, Ilyinsky volost, Bogorodsky district (now the Orekhovo-Zuevsky district). The name of Alexander was witnessed by the church of Ilyinsky Pogost. In the village of Bezzubovo, the Belyakov family lived in a completely “primitive way”. Father, Vasily Grigorievich, after graduating from the teacher's seminary, began his work as a rural teacher here. There was no apartment. Filmed "private" in the extension of the house of one peasant. The furniture was primitive: an overturned wooden box instead of a table, wide logs instead of chairs. The unsteadiness is suspended from a spring, which is nailed to the ceiling with a solid nail.
A year later, Father A.V. Belyakov was transferred to the village of Bolshiye Dvory near Pavlovsky Posad on the Klyazma River.
There were three children in the Belyakov family: Sasha, Misha and Tanya. There was no land in the Great Courtyards at the school, because there was nowhere even to grow potatoes, and the children had to be fed.
Soon the father of A. V. Belyakov was offered a school in the village of Subbotino. The Belyakovs bought a cow, the houses became more satisfying. My father and mother worked hard, especially in the summer. They uprooted the site at the school, planted apple trees, raspberries, and there was a place for a vegetable garden.
Alexander Vasilyevich began to study at the age of seven with his father at a school on which there was a sign: "Subbotinsky Zemstvo Primary School."
In 1907, Alexander Vasilievich finished a three-year elementary school with his father. The inspector came, there was an exam.
A certificate of graduation from the Subbotinsky School is being awarded to the student Alexander Belyakov! Two fives and one four, - said the inspector, handing the certificate.
The teacher received a monthly salary of 30 rubles. But it was necessary to feed, clothe and shoe the whole family. Alexander Vasilievich's father is looking for additional income. Now he is an insurance agent - runs around the villages, insures property. He always owes someone. In the notebook of Alexander Vasilyevich's mother, a sad entry appears: “We live on money ... but we didn’t buy anything to be seen ... There is nothing but debt. 140 rubles debt. It's just awful...
In 1905, father A.V. Belyakova met Maslennikov, a student at Moscow University. After graduating from the university, Maslennikov was sent to the Ryazan gymnasium as a teacher of geography.
Alexander Vasilyevich's father writes a letter to Maslennikov, where he asks if he would take his Sasha to his family. The answer came soon: “Bring Sasha to Ryazan ... for the exam for entering the gymnasium. If he survives, then let him live with us.”
Alexander Vasilyevich is diligently engaged, as he understands that it is about what is important for him - about continuing education. And here he, together with his father, travels by rail to Ryazan. Alexander passed the exam with “good” and “excellent”, although in the dictation he wrote the word “radish” through “e”, and not through “yat”, and made a small mistake in division.
For the whole family, entering the gymnasium was a joyful event. When leaving, the father ordered his son to be modest, not to indulge and obey the Maslennikovs in everything. For expenses, the father left 90 kopecks in silver and copper.
It was only one block to go to the gymnasium. Majestic, for those times, a beautiful yellow two-story large building with white columns inspired respect. The gymnasium students are wearing a gray tunic and trousers, a leather belt with a copper buckle on which the letters "RPG" are carved - the Ryazan First Gymnasium. On cold days, a long gray overcoat.
In the class, Alexander Vasilievich was placed in the last desk in the middle row. All eight years he sat at the back of the desk with Venya Kissin. I studied well, for fours and fives. Studied foreign languages: German and French. The geography classes taught by Maslennikov were very interesting.
The first year of high school has passed. In the report card of Alexander Vasilyevich, a record of the class teacher appeared: “Transferred to the 2nd grade with a commendable diploma.”
In July 1908, Alexander Vasilyevich's father unexpectedly received a paper from the director of the gymnasium, in which it was said: "Your son, second-grade student Alexander Belyakov, was enrolled as a state-owned boarder at the gymnasium." There, the students were kept on everything ready: they lived in a state-owned building, ate, dressed and were supplied with textbooks and notebooks.
Alexander Vasilyevich's parents were in seventh heaven with joy. Still would! Sasha is not only a student of the gymnasium, but now his education does not require any expenses from the family.
Life in the boarding house was on calls, getting up at 7:15 in the morning. The boarders washed themselves, and at 7:45 the teacher announced: "Become a prayer." Morning tea at 7:50. At 8 o'clock morning rehearsal - in half an hour to repeat something and collect books. At 8:30 a.m., in pairs in a column under the guidance of an educator, the boarders went to the gymnasium.
In the city of Ryazan, Alexander Vasilievich studied for 8 years.
The provincial city of Ryazan was a small town, only 40 thousand inhabitants, but there was a lot of greenery - gardens and orchards. In spring it smelled of lilacs, bird cherry and blossoming apples. In the spring, the Oka River overflowed strongly.
In 1915, Alexander Vasilievich passed the final exams for a matriculation certificate. In the assembly hall, large frames hung on the walls, in them, on a blue background with gold, were the names of medalists for many years. Of course, I wanted to be on this list, but one of the graduates, a classmate Veniamin Kissin, received a gold medal. Alexander Vasilievich was awarded silver.
In 1915, before A.V. Belyakov, the question arose: Which way of life to choose?
About aviation A.V. Belyakov did not dream then. I wanted to be closer to the ground. Initially, he earned money by teaching, and then entered the Petrograd Forestry Institute. And, probably, he would have become a forester, if not for the war. In 1916, Belyakov was admitted to military service ahead of schedule. He was sent to Moscow to the Alexander Military School. In February 1917, Belyakov, with the rank of ensign, was sent to Vladimir to the 215th Infantry Regiment.
After the February Revolution, Belyakov was elected a member of the regimental committee. Belyakov met the October Revolution on the Western Dvina. He was elected head of the sapper team and a member of the regimental committee. In the spring of 1918 A.V. Belyakov returned home and began working in the Bogorodsk district council, in the forest department, which was headed by the former weaver of the Glukhovskaya manufactory, the old Bolshevik Petukhov. A.V. Belyakov took part in the nationalization of the Morozov, Nekrasov, Shibaev forests. But the peaceful life was short-lived. Three months on short-term training courses, and then sent to the southern group of troops. A.V. Belyakov ended up in the legendary Chapaev division. Many times I saw Chapaev in battle, at headquarters, among the fighters, personally carried out his orders.
In 1920, the command sent Belyakov to Moscow to study at the aerial photography and photogrammetry school of the Red Army Air Force.
After graduating from this school in 1921, Belyakov, for brilliant success, was left in it as an instructor, then as a teacher, and later as an assistant to the head of the educational department.
But still, the forestry business was drawn to itself. In 1924, Belyakov nevertheless graduated from the Forestry Institute on the job and filed a demobilization report.
But at that time, the rapid development of Soviet aviation began: our first aircraft engine of 400 horsepower appeared, the first Soviet aircraft was built, and we had to forget about the forests.
Since 1930 A.V. Belyakov became a teacher of air navigation at the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy, and then the head of the navigation service department. Many years of life of A.V. Belyakova.
In 1934, Belyakov met Georgy Filippovich Baidukov during the flight of groups of heavy aircraft to France.
And another member of the future crew - Valery Pavlovich Chkalov - he saw back in October 1925, when legends were already circulating about Chkalov. And they met and became friends while working at the Air Force Research Institute, where Chkalov and Baidukov worked as test pilots.
In 1934, Belyakov had the opportunity to teach air aviation to a group of polar pilots, including Sigismund Levanevsky, a Chelyuskin pilot. He also owned the idea of a flight from Moscow through the North Pole to America to the city of San Francisco. Levanevsky (commander and first pilot), Baidukov (second pilot) and Levchenko (aircraft navigator) decided to make this flight on ANT-25. A.V. Belyakov was appointed instructor and second navigator of Levanevsky's crew.
But this flight ended in failure due to a technical malfunction of the machine. After that, Levanevsky said that the single-engine ANT-25 was not suitable for such a flight. Baidukov, Chkalov and Sergo Ordzhonikidze had a different opinion. In 1936, at one of the meetings in the Kremlin, People's Commissar for Heavy Industry Ordzhonikidze and both pilots expressed their opinion to Stalin, who proposed a less risky flight from Moscow to Petropavlovsk-on-Kamchatka for testing. So a new version of the route appeared. After his approval, Belyakov was appointed navigator of the Chkalovsky crew. The flight took place in July 1936. The plane flew without landing along the route Moscow - Kola Peninsula - about. Victoria - Franz Josef Land - Severnaya Zemlya - the coast of the Taimyr Peninsula - the mouth of the river. Lena - Yakutia - Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky - about. Udd in 56 hours 20 minutes, covering 9374 km. For this flight, by a decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, the pilots were awarded the Order of Lenin, and they were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Diplomas on conferring a high rank were presented to them by the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the USSR M.I. Kalinin. There were no golden stars of the Hero then. A few years later, when, at the suggestion of Zhdanov, a special insignia was established for the Heroes of the Soviet Union, A.V. Belyakov was awarded the Gold Star No. 9.
In April 1937, the Papanin's team landed at the North Pole and it became possible to make weather forecasts in the center of the Arctic. The flight to America became a reality. In the spring of 1937, Chkalov and Baidukov were summoned to the Kremlin. Permission to prepare for the flight was given. They decided to fly on a single-engine aircraft ANT-25. At dawn on June 18, 1937 at 4 o'clock. 04 min. the red-winged "RD" (range record) started from the Shchelkovsky airfield near Moscow. The aircraft took a course along the route: Moscow - across the White Sea - Kola Peninsula - Franz Josef Land - North Pole - and further across the Arctic Ocean to North America. The flight from Moscow to Vancouver took 63 hours and 16 minutes. Alexander Vasilievich recalled: “... the most stressful moment was when we went to Canada and met a huge front of clouds. Flying blind was risky, flying around through the Rocky Mountains and over the Pacific Ocean. We went to high altitudes. At this time, oxygen ran out ... The flight was difficult. The lack of oxygen, clouds, icing of the aircraft, and various annoying malfunctions interfered. But the victory became all the more joyful - a successful landing in Vancouver, where our pilots were warmly welcomed by representatives of the United States. Baidukov and Belyakov experienced the breath of those unforgettable years in the summer of 1975, when they flew to America on the IL-62 along the same route as 40 years ago. And the same ANT-25, on which this legendary flight was made, is now in the museum of V.P. Chkalov in the city of Chkalov, Gorky region. The school model is made in 1:43 scale.
A.V. Belyakov was the same restless dreamer as his friend and commander Chkalov. Belyakov was going to fly with Valery Pavlovich both around the "ball" and through the South Pole.
However, the Great Patriotic War began and all dreams of new flights collapsed. All thoughts were directed to the protection of the sacred Motherland.
A.V. Belyakov formed the Ryazan Air Force Navigator School and, being its head until the beginning of 1945, trained and produced night crews for long-range aviation.
After the war, Belyakov returned to the Air Force Academy and headed the navigation department until the beginning of 1960, until he retired.
However, A.V. Belyakov had little rest. At the request of the workers of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Alexander Vasilyevich agreed to become vice-rector for scientific and educational work at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and by order of the Minister of Higher and Secondary Education he was appointed to this position on January 25, 1961. Then Alexander Vasilyevich organized military training for MIPT students and transferred to the post of head of the military department. For many years Belyakov was associated with the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In people, he appreciated sincerity, directness, determination, he loved people who were ready to give all their strength for the good of the Motherland.
Belyakov spoke about many such wonderful people in his memoirs. And about him Chkalov said: “Navigator? One can say about him as an infinitely modest, silent, fearless person.
Until 1960, in the village of Bezzubovo, few people knew that the famous navigator of the Chkalovsky crew, Belyakov A.V. their countryman.
The teachers and children of the Bezzubovskaya school, having decided to create the history of their school and village, began to collect material about the people in the village of Bezzubovo, about those who lived and studied here.
Local historians of the school "raised" a lot of interesting material. At one of the gatherings of school students in September 1960, the oldest resident of the village of Bezzubovo, Dmitry Karpov, who was then 85 years old, was present. He received a message that 65 years ago, back in tsarist times, Belyakov Vasily Grigoryevich, who had a son, taught in the village.
Local historians of the school became interested: is it not the same Belyakov, whose son, together with Chkalov and Baidukov, made a non-stop flight on an ANT-25 plane across the North Pole to North America?
And the search began to establish the place of residence of Vasily Grigorievich Belyakov. He brought local historians to the Noginsk district of the Moscow region. A letter was sent to the museum of local lore in Noginsk.
On September 24, 1960, a reply came from Noginsk, in which the museum director A. Smirnov reported the place of residence of V.G. Belyakov and that his son, A.V. Belyakov, is a hero of the Soviet Union for the non-stop flight he made in 1936, together with Chkalov and Baidukov, from Moscow to the Far East in very difficult meteorological conditions.
They made their second flight a year later across the North Pole to North America.
December 25, 1960 from V.G. Belyakov received a letter. In it, he reported that his son A.V. Belyakov was indeed born in the village of Bezzubovo in 1897, and his brief biographical data were reported.
Vasily Grigorievich informed his son about the desire of schoolchildren to learn more about his life in more detail.
In January 1961, local historians wrote a letter to the village of Pochinki, where Vasily Grigorievich lived, with a request to send a photograph of his son and an address.
On February 15, 1961, an answer came from the village of Pochinki, where the address of Alexander Vasilyevich was reported. A letter was sent to this address, the answer to which was received on March 24, 1961. Thus began a correspondence with A.V. Belyakov.
School students have long dreamed of meeting Belyakov. And now they receive a telegram from Moscow: "I'm waiting for your representatives ... Hero of the Soviet Union A.V. Belyakov."
This meeting took place in January 1968, when the whole country was preparing for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Army, at the apartment of Alexander Vasilyevich in Moscow. At this meeting, he spoke about his life, about his service in the division of V.I. Chapaev, about life after the Civil War, about significant flights together with Chkalov and Baidukov, about the years of the Great Patriotic War and about work in Moscow at the Institute of Physics and Technology.
The guys told Alexander Vasilievich about the affairs at school. In conclusion, Alexander Vasilyevich, his wife Olga Pavlovna and daughter Irina were photographed for memory, and Alexander Vasilyevich presented the book “Our Chkalov” and handed over tickets to the Chkalov club.
Schoolchildren invited Belyakov A.V. and members of his family to visit the village of Bezzubovo. In the spring of the same year, in one of his letters to the principal of the school, Alexander Vasilyevich wrote: "I could come on September 1 to the opening of the school year."
And on September 1, 1968, Belyakov A.V. for the first time in many decades he visited his native village Bezzubovo, was a guest of his fellow countrymen.
At this meeting, Belyakov A.V. spoke about half a century of service in the Soviet Army, about how he became a pilot, how he flew with Chkalov and Baidukov. Here he had a conversation with the villagers. Alexander Vasilyevich examined the school, classrooms, workshops, and the school grounds.
The meeting of Belyakov A.V. was touching. with the oldest resident of the village of Bezzubovo Karpova - the former nanny of the hero pilot.
Leaving his native village Belyakov A.V. handed the children a book with an autograph "Legendary Chapaevskaya" and wished the fellow countrymen great success. And in the album of the Bezzubovskaya eight-year school, he made an entry: "For a long time I will remember the trip to my native place - Bezzubovo."
Then in 1971 Belyakov A.V. sent a letter in which he congratulated teachers and students on the end of the school year and 20 tickets to visit the Armory in the Kremlin with an invitation to his dacha in the village of Staraya Kupavna, Noginsk district.
After 6 years, the long-awaited meeting took place. In June 1977, a large group of schoolchildren visited Belyakov A.V. The meeting was held in Kupavna near Moscow and was dedicated to the fortieth anniversary of the ultra-long flight over the North Pole to America.
December 21, 1977 A.V. Belyakov is 80 years old. The day before, Lev Grigoryevich Leonov, director of the school, spoke to him on the phone from teachers and students of the school. He conveyed congratulations and good wishes from fellow countrymen.
And in 1980, on the eve of the October celebration, a large group of schoolchildren again visited the hero-countryman at his apartment in Moscow. All the rest of the time, communication with Alexander Vasilyevich did not stop. In 1981, a book by A.V. Belyakov "In flight through the years". Alexander Vasilievich sent this book with a dedicatory autograph in August of the same year.
The result of the work of local historians and teachers of the school is the creation and opening of the museum of the hero-countryman A.V. Belyakova.
On October 10, 1981, the museum of the Hero of the Soviet Union A.V. was solemnly opened in our school. Belyakova. In November 1981, the film "The First Chkalovsky Flight" appeared on the screen of the Central Television, dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the flight from Moscow to the Far East.
In December 1982, after a long illness, A.V. Belyakov died.
In May 1984, a group of students and school teachers visited and laid flowers on Belyakov's grave at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
(According to the materials of the Museum of the Bezzubov School)
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