Biography Ishchenko Nikolay

The tombstone of Ishchenko Nikolay Aleksandrovich is the commander of the air squadron of the Aviation Regiment I am an aviation division, long -range aviation, major. Born on February 1 on February 14 in the village of Bolshesidorovskoye now Krasnogvardeisky district of the Republic of Adygea. He graduated from the 4th grade of the school and the McYkop professional school.

He worked as a tractor driver, a driver at the state farm, a repairman for repairs on the automotive base of the Maykop timber industry farm until August. In the year he graduated from the Batai Flight School of the GVF. For excerpt and skill in an emergency, he was awarded the Order of the "Person of Honor". On a passenger aircraft, the PS mastered the longest Moscow -Irkutsk airfield at that time.

In the army since February. He was appointed deputy commander of the air squadron of the Far Bombarding Aviation Regiment, created on the initiative and under the command of A. Golovanov from the best pilots and navigators of Aeroflot. Member of the Great Patriotic War since June 22 as deputy commander of the air squadron of the Dalnebardovka Aviation Regiment. On the bombarder, Il-4 participated in defensive battles in Belarus.

Ishchenko until the last pulled the burning car to the front line and left it with parachute at the last moment. The heel bone was fragmented and seriously wounded by him, N. Ishchenko was in the hospital for four months. The flight commission recognized him worthless to service in military aircraft and sent him to Sverdlovsk to work in the FEF. However, the pilot achieved permission to return to the front.

Since April, the ship commander, deputy commander and commander of the GO air squadron since September - GO Guards Aviation Regiment of Far -Acts. On the bomber, the Pe-8 repeatedly made night flights to bombard and explore large enemy objects in his deep rear. In total, during the war he made combat departures 7 daytime on IL-4 and nights on Pek after the war continued in the combat units of the Air Force.

He died on September 12, in a plane crash on a bombing, he was buried in the old cemetery of the city of Ramenskoye, Moscow Region. The major was awarded the orders of Lenin, the Red Banner, Alexander Nevsky, the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the “sign of honor”, ​​medals. The biography was originally posted in the year by N. Ufarkin on the basis of the book: Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Brief biographical dictionary. Volume 1. Some episodes of the biography and flight work of N. Ishchenko based on the materials of the book H. Ishchenko made a passenger flight on the steel-3 aircraft. Already on the way to Sverdlovsk on the plane, the fastening of the right ski, which took a vertical position, broke off. A critical situation was created. Bortmeikhanik Domrachev, on the command of N.

Ishchenko, attached with belts to his sitting, without a parachute, risking his life, crawled out through the right window overboard the board on the chassis and, pierced by the oncoming frosty wind, stood on the back of the ski, bringing it to a horizontal position. As a result, N. Ishchenko made the workshop a soft landing, preserving the lives of passengers and an airplane. For the manifested courage and skill, the ship commander and the flight mechanic were awarded the orders of the "Sign of Honor".

Bombers went without covering our fighters. At 17 o’clock from a height of meters, they brought down a bomb cargo for crossing and the cluster of enemy tanks. When trying to deliver a second blow, they were suddenly attacked by twenty Messerschmitts. Having entered into an unequal battle, N. Ishchenko shot down one vulture, and the second was shot down. But the Germans managed to set fire to the plane and injure his commander.

Distant arrows-radio operator and shooter-bombardier. The navigator of the ship Captain A. Kvasov, by order of N. Ishchenko, left the aircraft by parachute. Leaving a smoky trace, the burning car reached out to the front line. In an incredible effort of will and skill, trying to keep an uncontrollable plane in a horizontal position, Nikolai Alexandrovich crossed the front line and thrown off with a parachute.

Burned and seriously wounded, he hardly reached his own. Ishchenko only in the first month of hostilities made seven night flights, bombing enemy objects in Orsha, Bryansk, Smolensk, Gomel, and showed himself not only by an excellent pilot and master of a bomb hit, but also a bold innovator who constantly searched for new methods of actions of heavy bombers. Skillfully leading the organization and preparation for combat sorties, he was one of the first to the regiment to the maximum of the bomb load on his ship and applied a new five -ton bomb of the FAB this happened on the night of May 28 of the year.

According to intelligence, it was known that in Mogilev in one of the buildings a meeting of the German command of strict secrecy would be held. N. The flight was entrusted to destroy this horned nest in a large cloudless, when everything surrounded the monument to a monotonous gray background. Ponomarenko, a special instinct and experience were required from the crew to find not only the desired object, but also the city of Mogilev itself.

Many had to work hard to the ship to Captain V. Rogozin in order to accurately bring the aircraft to the target and aptly impress it. Ishchenko brilliantly coped with the task.As air intelligence later reported, the bomb caused an explosion of huge destructive force, as a result of which about a thousand Nazis were destroyed. And a week later, Nikolai Alexandrovich brought the same bomb to the cluster of troops in the area of ​​the Orel railway station.

Ishchenko returned to his airfield on three engines. The car went with a slight decrease. The altimeter showed 2. The remaining one right engine worked at maximum speeds. The left side engines, having superiority in power, threw the left plane forward. This could lead to nasty consequences, if it weren’t for the skill of N. how the events further developed, in his memoirs, the Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General S.

Ushakov, at that time captain, navigator of the crew, described in his memoirs. Here is his story: “A few minutes passed, and the plane was already outside the anti -aircraft fire.

Suddenly a dry crack came. The pressure of gasoline fell on all motors, and after some time, as a result of damage to a gas station, all motors stopped working. Attempts of technicians to pump up a fuel with a manual pump did not lead to anything. The altimeter showed meters. The plane, without traction, tried to break into the nose or on the wing. But Ishchenko so skillfully used the rolls that his car still obeyed.

It was reduced at an angle that provided the minimum necessary speed. Having leveled the plane, the pilot turned on the headlights already flew on his territory to view the terrain. Before us lay a village, wooden houses were visible. This danger was seen by Ishchenko and the second pilot Senior Lieutenant Khoroshilov. But at this time, the ray of headlights lit up trees.

The pilot made an inconspicuous argument. Ishchenko decided to reach the forest to save his life to the crew and sharply pulled the car up. The plane extinguished the speed and fell on the trees with the whole area, buried in two thick oak medium -sized engines and hanging on the wreckage of broken trees. All crew members remained alive, although they received injuries and bruises by S.

Ushakov himself on the orders of N. Ishchenko at the last moment jumped out with a parachute. After returning to the regiment, Nikolai Alexandrovich did not rest for long. Already on the third day, he flew to bomb Vyazma with a bandaged head. The flight took place in difficult meteorological conditions. The plane often fell into the descending and rising air flows and the car sometimes fell by meters.

And only near Vyazma the weather improved somewhat. Successfully breaking through the enemy’s barrage fire, he accurately threw the bombs to the target, causing seven large foci of the fire and huge destruction, and returned to the airfield safely. This news found him in a combat raid on Smolensk, where he was to hit the enemy echelons concentrated on the city’s railway junction.

The combat mission was completed from the first call.