Biography Vasily Tikhonov

The biography of the Hero of the Soviet Union V. Rudnik Ulen was the company of the French industrialist Delaru, here Gavrila Gavrilovich Tikhonov, the father of Vasily, worked as a master of mining. The memoirs of eyewitnesses were preserved that the families of Tikhonovs were friends, and so that one of the ore mines was called “Antoninin”, named Mother Vasily Tikhonov, and the other - the name of the wife of the manager of Delaru - “Glafirinskaya”.

After graduating from a seven -year school, Vasily Gavrilovich Tikhonov settled on one of the mines of the Montenegrin coal mines. In the village of Chernogorsk mines, he lived up to a year, worked as a heapon, then a rollback, a slap. At the same time he received an education in an evening school. From October to August, Vasily worked on the Sarajin mines, and then on the Anzero-Sujzhensky coal mines.

In December, he was sent to the school of junior aircraft specialists in the city of Spassk-Dalniy Primorsky Territory, after which, from May, in December, he was sent to study at the military-theoretical school of the Air Force. Red Banner Komsomol in the city in June Engels for passing a practical flight course. In December, Voronezh, where he served as a junior pilot and ship commander.

In July, in the city of the Great Patriotic War at the beginning of the war, the regiment in July Bologoye and from there participated in the bombing of important military and industrial facilities of the enemy. With the beginning of the enemy’s air raids on Moscow, the first raid was on the night at the question of the issue of bombing strikes it turned out that almost all the airfields from which the summer equipment available in those years could reach the capital of Germany.

Only two small airfields on the Estonian island of Ezel, which had only soil runways of a long-meters, could be carried out.

For flights to Berlin, about 70 crews were selected that could fly in difficult weather conditions and at night. Bad weather and frequent rains interfered with pilots. There were ten such raids on the lair. By the end of August, the troops of fascist Germany captured almost the entire territory of Estonia, the island of Ezel was in the rear of the enemy. The pilots made the last departure on September 5, dropping Bombs on the military-industrial facilities of Berlin, while our planes made our planes at the airfield near Leningrad.

The commander of the squadron of the Dalnebarding Air regiment, Captain Tikhonov V. his squadron, struck the engineering fortifications, sea ports of the enemy, sank several enemy ships by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 16 for the successful implementation of combat missions to bombard the industrial facilities of Germany and the political center of Berlin to Captain V.

The air raids of our aviation on Berlin, Tikhonov V. The regiment officially intended to strike at the enemy’s deep rear. It was allowed to complete from pilots of any ranks, any air parts, but having the necessary skills of conducting night "blind" flights. In the summer of the year, he again takes part in the bombing of Berlin, as well as Koenigsberg, Danzig and other large cities of Germany.

At the end of the year - the beginning of GO takes part in the battles near Stalingrad. In March, for the shots shown in the battles and the heroism of the personnel, the Far Aviation Regiment under the command of Tikhonov was renamed the Failed Aviation Regiment, and a month later he was transformed into the Guards Division. In the summer of the GO pilots of the Tikhonov division, they take part in the Kursk-Orlov battle, for which the division is named Oryol.

In August, Vasily Tikhonov was awarded the title of Major General. For the liberation of Hungary in August, the Tikhonov division is assigned the name Budapest. In the victorious M, the Oryol-Budapest Division participates in the East Prussian offensive operation, Berlin bombs again. Over the years of World War II, Vasily Tikhonov’s division made about 10 thousand sorties, and about tons of bombs were dropped.

On the personal account of Vasily Gavrilovich of combat sorties. For courage and heroism, Tikhonov was awarded 25 government awards. After the war V. in the year he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff. Since August, Major General Aviation Tikhonov began serving in strategic missile forces, having received an appointment to the post of first deputy commander of a missile association.

In the year he was awarded the title of Lieutenant General of Aviation. Since May, he is the head of the Kharkov Higher Command-Engineering School, which he headed for about 10 years. Since August,-a reserve lieutenant general, lived in Moscow. In his will, he wrote: "To bury in his homeland, on the shore of the Yenisei." It was executed. With all military honors, Lieutenant General Tikhonov was buried in Abakan.

At the funds raised by Montenegrin miners, a bust was laid out on his grave. In memory and as a sign of respect for a fellow countryman in the year of the Flight of Montenegorsk Vasily Gavrilovich Tikhonov, the rank of honorary citizen of the city was awarded. The name of the hero in the cityChernogorsk is called the street.