Kuznetsov Mikhail Vasilievich

(b. 1913) - Soviet pilot, Major General of Aviation (1959), twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1943, 1945). In the Soviet Army since 1933. He graduated from the military school of naval pilots (1934), the Air Force Academy (1951; now named after Yu. A. Gagarin). Member of the Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars. During the war he was a squadron commander, navigator, commander of a fighter regiment. He made 345 sorties, personally shot down 22 and as part of a group of 6 enemy aircraft. After the war, in command positions in the Air Force. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, 4 Orders of the Red Banner, Orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd degree. Labor Red Banner, 2 orders of the Red Star, medals. Bronze bust in the village of Agarino, Moscow Region.

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A SURPRISINGLY BEAUTIFUL MAN Mikhail Kuznetsov Mikhail Artemyevich Kuznetsov died in the square at the beginning of Kutuzovsky Prospekt, next to the Ukraina Hotel. It was in broad daylight. He died as if not noticing his death. They say that the Lord sends such a death

KUZNETSOV Vasily Vasilievich

From the book The Most Closed People. From Lenin to Gorbachev: Encyclopedia of Biographies author Zenkovich Nikolai Alexandrovich

KUZNETSOV Vasily Vasilyevich (01/31/1901 - 06/05/1990). Member of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee from 10/16/1952 to 03/05/1953 Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee from 10/03/1977 to 02/25/1986 Member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks from 03/18/1946 to 05/10. 1952 Member of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1952 - 1989 Member of the CPSU since 1927 Born in the village of Sofilovka, Kostroma

Mikhail Kuznetsov We argued...

From the book of Eisenstein in the memoirs of contemporaries author Yurenev Rostislav Nikolaevich

Mikhail Kuznetsov We were arguing... In 1941, I starred in "Mashenka" with Yu. Ya. Raizman. He stood during a break at Mosfilm - he smoked. The door to the yard is open, some plump man walks, a little goose gait, quickly, and holds out his open hand, palm: "Hello." -

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Mikhail Palych Kuznetsov

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Mikhail Vasilievich Kuznetsov Born in the village of Agarino, not far from Serpukhov, near Moscow, on November 7, 1913. From 1921 he lived in Moscow, after finishing school of the 2nd stage he worked at a factory. In 1933, on party mobilization, he was sent to the school of naval pilots (Yeisk VMAU). WITH

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Mikhail Kuznetsov: “I STAND FOR THE TRUTH!” (Dialogue with Alexander Prokhanov)

From the book Newspaper Tomorrow 347 (30 2000) author Tomorrow Newspaper

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Commander of the 814th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 207th Fighter Aviation Division of the 3rd Mixed Aviation Corps of the 17th Air Army of the Southwestern Front; Commander of the 106th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division of the 2nd Guards Assault Aviation Corps of the 2nd Air Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front.

Born November 7, 1913 in the village of Agarino (now the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region) in a working class family. Russian. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1932. In 1930 he graduated from 7 classes.
In the Red Army since 1933. In 1934 he graduated from the Yeisk Naval Pilot School. Member of the liberation campaign of Soviet troops in Western Belarus in 1939 and the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-40, in the position of assistant squadron commander.
Member of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. He fought on the Leningrad, Kalinin, Western, Southwestern, 3rd and 1st Ukrainian fronts as a squadron commander, regiment navigator (1941-42), commander of fighter regiments (1942-1945).

By August 1943, the commander of the 814th Fighter Aviation Regiment (207th Fighter Aviation Division, 3rd Mixed Air Corps, 17th Air Army, Southwestern Front), Major Kuznetsov M.V. made 245 sorties and in 53 air battles personally shot down 17 enemy aircraft and 6 in the group.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 8, 1943, for the heroism and courage shown in air battles, and the skillful command of the regiment, Kuznetsov Mikhail Vasilyevich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 1714). By May 1945 commander of the 106th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 2nd Guards Assault Air Corps, 2nd Air Army, 1st Ukrainian Front) Guard Lieutenant Colonel Kuznetsov M.V. made 330 sorties, conducted 72 air battles, personally shot down 21 enemy aircraft and 6 in the group.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 27, 1945, Kuznetsov Mikhail Vasilievich was awarded the second Gold Star medal (No. 82) for new military exploits.
In total, over the years of the warriors M.V. Kuznetsov made 345 sorties, conducted 72 air battles, personally shot down 22 enemy aircraft and 6 in group battles.
After the war, the famous fighter pilot held a number of command positions in the USSR Air Force. In 1951 he graduated from the Air Force Academy. Until 1955 he was the head of the Chernihiv aviation school, and from 1955 to 1959 he headed the 10th VASHPOL in Kremenchug.


In 1959, he was awarded the military rank of Major General of Aviation. Since 1974 Kuznetsov M.V. retired and then retired. Lived in the city of Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region of Ukraine. Passed away December 15, 1989. He was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery.
He was awarded the Order of Lenin, 4 Orders of the Red Banner, Orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd degree, Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree, Red Banner of Labor, 2 Orders of the Red Star, medals.
Bronze bust of twice Hero of the Soviet Union M.V. Kuznetsov was installed in his homeland in the village of Agarino, but due to the disappearance of the latter, it was transferred to the city of Pushchino, Moscow Region - the Biological Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Kuznetsov Mikhail Vasilievich

Born on November 7, 1913 in the village of Agarino, now the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, in a working class family. He graduated from the 7th grade in 1930. In the Red Army since 1933. He graduated from the Yeisk Naval Pilot School in 1934. Member of the liberation campaign of Soviet troops in Western Belarus in 1939 and the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War at the front. By August 1943, the commander of the 814th Fighter Aviation Regiment (207th Fighter Aviation Division, 3rd Mixed Aviation Corps, 17th Air Army, Southwestern Front) Major M.V. in air battles personally shot down 17 enemy aircraft and 6 as part of a group. On September 8, 1943, for courage and military prowess shown in battles with enemies, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

By May 1945, the commander of the 106th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 2nd Guards Assault Aviation Corps, 2nd Air Army, 1st Ukrainian Front) Guards Lieutenant Colonel M. V. Kuznetsov completed 345 successful sorties, conducted 72 air battles, in which he personally shot down 22 enemy aircraft and 6 in a group with comrades. On June 27, 1945 he was awarded the second medal "Gold Star" of the Hero.

After the war he continued to serve in the Air Force. In 1951 he graduated from the Air Force Academy. Since 1959, Major General of Aviation. In 1974 he retired. Lived in the city of Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner (four times), Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd degree, the Patriotic War 1st degree, the Red Banner of Labor, the Red Star (twice), and medals. The bronze bust was installed at home.

... There were legends about the fearlessness of M.V. Kuznetsov and the pilots of his squadron at the front. Indeed, already in the first months of the war, the commander himself personally shot down 7 enemy aircraft.

Mikhail Kuznetsov was born in the village of Agarino, not far from Serpukhov near Moscow, on November 7, 1913. From 1921 he lived with his parents in Moscow, after graduating from the 2nd stage school he worked at a factory. In 1933, due to party mobilization, he was sent to the Yeysk Naval Pilot School. From 1934 he served in fighter aviation units. In September 1939 he participated in the occupation of Eastern Poland, and at the end of the year - in the fighting against Finland during the Winter War.


In 1942, Major M.V. Kuznetsov was appointed commander of the 814th IAP on the Southwestern Front, flying the Yak-1. He led the regiment through the crucible of fighting in Ukraine, where he personally shot down 12 enemy aircraft. Under his command, on August 24, 1943, the regiment was awarded the Guards rank and became known as the 106th GvIAP. Receiving the Guards banner, the regiment commander M.V. Kuznetsov said then that the pilots in battles would justify the high rank of the Guards. The commander himself set an example of courage and bravery. In September 1943, after the liberation of Donbass, for 17 personally shot down aircraft of the Guard, Major M. V. Kuznetsov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Later, the regiment's pilots fought on the 3rd Ukrainian Front, flying Yak-9 aircraft. MV Kuznetsov, 1943 Once Kuznetsov flew out at the head of the six "Yakovlevs" on a free hunt for the Seversky Donets. Against the background of a crimson sunset, the pilots noticed a large group of German bombers that were flying under the cover of Messers. Kuznetsov immediately rushed to the attack, dragging his wingmen with him. He set out to shoot down the leader, decapitate the enemy cover group, and then deal with the bombers. German fighters did not accept the battle, pressed against the bombers. "Yaks" on the move crashed into the already faltering formation of the enemy. One by one, 3 bombers fell to the ground in flames. Kuznetsov relentlessly pursued the car of the leader of the enemy group and knocked it down with a well-aimed burst. Pilots N. Khimushin and G. Artemchenko destroyed one plane each in this battle.

Day and night, the aviators fought hot battles with the enemy, helping ground forces in the liberation of the cities of Donbass, as well as Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, and Krivoy Rog. Once M. V. Kuznetsov had to fly over the ancient Ukrainian city of Pereyaslav - Khmelnitsky - the birthplace of the great son of the Ukrainian people, a wise statesman, an outstanding commander Bogdan Khmelnitsky. Here, on January 8, 1654, the Pereyaslav Rada, convened by Khmelnytsky, expressed the unanimous will of the Ukrainian people to live as a friendly family with the fraternal Russian people and, together with Russia, by common efforts to crush foreign invaders. And now, in a difficult time, all the peoples of our multinational Motherland have come to the aid of the Ukrainian people. In the sky of Ukraine, M. V. Kuznetsov personally shot down 12 enemy aircraft and 4 in group battles. He was awarded the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd degree.

On February 23, 1945, at the head of six fighters, Mikhail Kuznetsov entered the battle with 40 German aircraft. In this battle, the enemy lost 7 aircraft, our pilots had no losses. Mikhail Vasilyevich Kuznetsov also participated in the battles on the Leningrad and Kalinin fronts, smashed the enemy at Stalingrad, liberated the Donbass, Ukraine, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. He made his last sorties over Berlin, where on May 8, 1945 he shot down the 28th enemy aircraft. The pilots of the regiment, pupils of Kuznetsov, destroyed 299 enemy aircraft in battle. In total, Guards Colonel M.V. Kuznetsov conducted 72 air battles in 345 sorties, personally destroyed 22 enemy aircraft and 6 - as part of a group. For courage and courage shown in battles with the Nazi invaders, for the skillful leadership of military operations and the education of high-class fighter pilots in June 1945, he was awarded the second "Gold Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union.

After the war, Mikhail Vasilyevich continued to serve in the Air Force, flying jet and supersonic aircraft. In 1951 he graduated from the Air Force Academy. For a long time he headed one of the military schools for pilots, passed on his rich combat experience to the new family of Soviet aces. Demobilized in 1974 with the rank of Major General of Aviation. The last years he lived in the city of Berdyansk. In the city of Pushchino there is a bust of the twice Hero of the Soviet Union, the legendary pilot of the Great Patriotic War M. V. Kuznetsov, transferred there from the village of Agarino, in which the hero was born. The bust always has fresh flowers. Schoolchildren of the Pushchino school, which bears the name of M. V. Kuznetsov, take care of the bust of the Hero.

FULL NAME: Kuznetsov Mikhail Vasilievich

Academic degree, academic title and official position: candidate of geographical sciences, associate professor.

Current place of work: Department of Economic and Social Geography and Territorial Administration, Faculty of Geography, Tauride National University named after V. I. Vernadsky

Main scientific direction: functional-genetic aspects of the formation of the spatio-temporal structure of the socio-economic process of the social organization of the territory.

Scientific interests: problems of improving the recreational-geographical process; epistemological aspects of the public demand for geography in the information age; problems of school and university geographical didactics; statistical support of geotechnologies of territorial development.

Main activities:

1. Teaching: Taurida National University named after V.I. Vernadsky - Economic and social geography of Ukraine, Economic and social geography of Crimea, Methods of teaching geography, Methods of teaching geography and ecology in higher education, Statistics, Economic and statistical methods in recreation, Geotechnologies for the development of transport systems, Ukraine and Crimea in the system of international tourism.

2. Research activities: within the framework of the topic of the department "Geographic support of the process of managing the sustainable noospheric development of the Crimea" .

Number of scientific papers - 120 works, with a total volume of 150 printed sheets, of which 30 works - 120.5 printed sheets .

Basic monographs and study guides

Kuznetsov M.V. Methodology for organizing extracurricular activities in geography [proc. allowance] / M.V. Kuznetsov. - Moscow: School and Pedagogy, 1988. - 287 p.

Kuznetsov M.V. Methods of teaching geography: guidelines for correspondence students [proc. allowance] / M.V. Kuznetsov, I.T. Tverdokhlebov. - Moscow: MGU, 1989. - 93 p.

Kuznetsov M.V. Placement of the productive forces of Ukraine [proc. allowance] / M.V. Kuznetsov. - Simferopol: NATA, 2004. - 235 p.

Kuznetsov M.V. Fundamentals of socio-economic statistics [proc. allowance] / M.V. Kuznetsov. - Simferopol: NATA, 2005. - 147 p.

Nikitina M.G. Ukraine: location and regionalization of productive forces [proc. allowance] / M.G. Nikitina, M.V., Kuznetsov, V.V. Pobirchenko. - Simferopol: Tavria, 2006. - 400 p.

Geoecology: scientific and methodological book on ecology / V.A. Bokov, V.G. Yena, M.V. Kuznetsov [i dr.]. - Simferopol: Tavria, 2006. - 384 p.

Kuznetsov M.V. Statistics and the static method in tourism [proc. allowance] / M.V. Kuznetsov. - Simferopol: NATA, 2007. - 144 p.

Kuznetsov M.V. Methods of Geography: Fundamentals of Geographical Didactics [proc. allowance] / M.V. Kuznetsov. - Simferopol: TNU, 2010. - 115 p.

Main articles

Yena V. G. Scientific excursions of the symposium of the commission on the use of lands of the international geographical union / V.G. Yena, I.T. Tverdokhlebov, M.V. Kuznetsov // Proceedings of the Scientific Symposium of the Commission on the Use of Lands of the International Geographical Union; July 21-26, 1976 - K .: Vishcha school, 1976. - S. 83-94. (Russian, Eng., French)

Kuznetsov M.V. Socially organized territory as an object of geographical research / M.V. Kuznetsov // Geography in the system of sciences. - L.: Nauka, 1986. - S. 187-193.

Kuznetsov M.V. Transport and communication / M.V. Kuznetsov // Crimea: present, future. - Simferopol: Tavria, 1995. - S. 181-192.

Kuznetsov M.V. Greece - the cradle of European culture / M.V. Kuznetsov // Tourist regional studies; ed. I.N. Voronina, A.B. Shvets. - Simferopol: Original - M, 2008. - Part 1. - S. 58-74.

Kuznetsov M.V. Canada is a country of neighboring tourism / M.V. Kuznetsov // Tourist regional studies; ed. I.N. Voronina, A.B. Shvets. - Simferopol: Original - M, 2008. - Part 1. - S. 142-153.

Kuznetsov M.V. Kyrgyzstan - the high-mountain pearl of Asia / M.V. Kuznetsov // Tourist regional studies; ed. I.N. Voronina, A.B. Shvets. - Simferopol: ARIAL, 2009. - Part 2. - S. 143-148.

Kuznetsov M.V. Socio-geographical analysis of the territorial structure of the education system of the Pervomaisky district of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea / M.V. Kuznetsov, N.V. Shamray // Uchenye zapiski TNU. - Simferopol, 12 - T. 25 (64). - No. 2. - S. 131-139.

Kuznetsov M.V. Socio-geographical vectors of adaptation of the tourist and recreational sphere of Ukraine to the system of international tourism / M.V. Kuznetsov, M.M. Kuznetsov // Geopolitics and ecogeodinamics of regions. - Simferopol, 2014. - T. 10. - Issue. 2. - S. 632-636.

Kuznetsov M.V. Gnoseological aspects of social demand for geography in the information age / M.V. Kuznetsov // Sat. scientific works "Ukraine: geography of goals and opportunities". - K, 2012. - T. 2. - S. 129-132.

Theses:

Defended the thesis "Problems of intensification of the recreational-geographical process in the system of social organization of the territory of Crimea" (Leningrad, Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen, 1982)

Mikhail Vasilievich Kuznetsov


Mikhail Vasilyevich Kuznetsov was born on October 25 (November 7), 1913. in the village of Agarino, Serpukhov district, Moscow province, in a working class family. Russian.

  • 1921 - the family moved to Moscow.
  • 1930 - graduated from school of the 2nd stage (7 classes).
  • 1930-1933 - employee of the plant "Moselectric" / since 1931, the plant "Moselectric" named after. S. Ordzhonikidze/, secretary of the Komsomol committee of the plant. In 1932 - at the age of 19! - joined the CPSU (b).
  • 1933 - on party mobilization he was sent to the Yeisk military aviation school for naval pilots (Yeisk VMAU).
  • 1933-1934 - cadet of the Yeysk military aviation school of naval pilots.
  • Since 1934 - served in the fighter aviation units of the Red Army.
  • September 1939 - a member of the Polish campaign of the Red Army.
  • 1939-1940 - Member of the Soviet-Finnish war. Senior lieutenant, assistant squadron commander.
  • Battle episode: " 03/12/1940 troika of the 15th IAP: regiment commander Major V.L. Bobrik, captain Shavrov and Art. Lieutenant M.V. Kuznetsov flew out to search for the pilots of the 38th IAP Bobrov and Romashkov who had made an emergency landing, who were on the ice of the Gulf of Finland 30 kilometers southwest of Helsinki. Two comrades were on the ice. Bobrov put the wounded Romashkov on a parachute and dragged him across the ice. His strength was exhausted, but he did not abandon his comrade, dragging him 18 kilometers towards his shore, approached the non-freezing part of the Gulf of Finland. There they were discovered by a flying group. Major Bobrik made a quick decision. He skilfully landed his car on the ice, followed by Captain Shavrov. Art. Lieutenant Kuznetsov was in the air in case of a sudden attack by the enemy. Bobrik took the wounded Romashkov into his plane, and Major Bobrov sat next to Shavrov. Overloaded planes struggled off the uneven ice. The pilots landed safely at their airfield."
  • Since June 1941 - Member of the Great Patriotic War.
  • · Captain Kuznetsov, commander of the 15th Fighter Aviation Regiment, performed the first sorties near Leningrad in July 1941 on a MiG-3. Soon he won his first victory here, shooting down the leader of the Me-109 group. The destruction of the leaders of groups of enemy aircraft became his creed. Kuznetsov sought, first of all, to decapitate the enemy's battle formations. For a short time he was a navigator of an aviation regiment.
  • · In May 1942, Major Kuznetsov was appointed commander of the 814th Fighter Aviation Regiment on the Southwestern Front, fought in the skies over Ukraine, where he personally shot down 12 enemy aircraft.
  • · On August 24, 1943, the regiment was awarded the rank of Guards and became the 106th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.
  • Battle episode: "Summer 1943. Once Kuznetsov flew out at the head of the six Yakovlevs on a free hunt for the Seversky Donets. Against the background of a crimson sunset, the pilots noticed a large group of German bombers that were going under the cover of the Messers. Kuznetsov immediately rushed to the attack, dragging along wingmen. He set out to shoot down the leader, decapitate the enemy cover group, and then deal with the bombers. The German fighters did not accept the battle, clung to the bombers. "Yaks" on the move crashed into the enemy's already faltering formation. One by one, 3 engulfed in flames fell to the ground bomber. Kuznetsov relentlessly pursued the car of the leader of the enemy group and shot it down with a well-aimed burst. Pilots N. Khimushin and G. Artemchenko destroyed one aircraft in this battle.
  • · By August 1943 - Major Kuznetsov made 245 sorties and in 53 air battles personally shot down 17 enemy aircraft and 6 in the group.
  • September 8, 1943 - Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "for heroism and courage shown in air battles, and skillful command of the regiment" awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (in fact, for 17 downed aircraft).
  • · Passed through Poland and Czechoslovakia to Berlin.
  • · By May 9, 1945, he made 345 sorties, conducted 72 air battles, shot down 22 personally and in a group - 6 enemy aircraft. Guard Colonel. Commander of the 106th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 2nd Guards Assault Aviation Corps, 2nd Air Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front.
  • · June 24, 1945 - participant in the Victory Parade in Moscow.
  • June 27, 1945 - awarded the second Gold Star medal "for courage and courage shown in battles with the Nazi invaders, for the skillful leadership of military operations and the education of high-class fighter pilots.
  • After the war, he continued to serve in the Air Force, flying jet and supersonic aircraft.
  • 1951 - graduated from the Air Force Academy.
  • 1951-1957 - the first head of the 57th Military Aviation School for Air Force Pilots (later - the Chernihiv Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots named after Lenin Komsomol).
  • He served as Deputy Commander of the Air Force of the Kyiv and Moscow Military Districts for Logistics.
  • 1974 - transferred to the reserve.
  • Lived in the city of Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region of Ukraine.
  • He died on December 15, 1989. He was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery.

Fighter pilot, commander of the 814th fighter aviation regiment of the 207th fighter aviation division of the 3rd mixed aviation corps of the 17th air army of the Southwestern Front; commander of the 106th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division of the 2nd Guards Attack Aviation Corps of the 2nd Air Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front, twice Hero of the Soviet Union,