Glazov Biography

Mass grave in the village of Shterovka View 3 Glazov Nikolay Elizarovich-Deputy commander of the 1st squadron of the Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, I am the Fighter Aviation Division, the 8th Air Army, the Southern Front, the Lieutenant Guard. Born on December 14th in the village now the city of Shilka now the Transbaikal Territory in the family of a railway worker.

He graduated from high school. He worked as an electrician. He studied at the flying club at the same time. In the Red Army since the year. In the year, with honors, he graduated from the Batai Military Aviation School of Pilot named after A. served in the mf fighter aviation regiment, based on one of the airfields near Moscow. Member of the Great Patriotic War from its first day. Soon Glazov became the commander of the same regiment of the 6th Fighter Aviation Corps, the Moscow Air Defense Zone.

He drove the link to cover his troops, the assault on the enemy troops, reflected the raids of enemy aircraft to Moscow. Once his link entered the battle with 10 Ju and 4 ME in 30 minutes of battle, the enemy lost 4 aircraft, of which 2 on the account of Glazov. Our pilots returned to the airfield without loss. In total, in the sky of the Moscow Region held 40 battles, shot down 8 enemy aircraft.

Member of the CPSU B from the year. In August, the Glazov regiment was sent to Stalingrad. In November, the fighter aviation division, the 8th Air Army, and the South-Western Front was transferred to the Fighter Aviation Regiment. He was a true master of air battle, shot down enemy aircraft from the first attack. He flew on a free "hunt". Our pilots shot down 6 enemy aircraft and returned to their airfield without loss.

One bomber shot down N. for this battle, he was awarded the Order of Lenin. In air battle, I shot down 2 me brought the entire group without loss to its airfield. He flew for air intelligence, brought exclusively valuable information about the location and movement of enemy troops. In the summer of the year, the troops of the Southern Front were preparing to break through the enemy’s defense on the Mius River.

Air battles acquired an increasingly fierce character. On the evening of July 30, the squadron commander of the guard, Senior Lieutenant Glazov, was returning from a combat mission in the area of ​​the city of Krasny Luch. From the ground on the radio it was handed over that an enemy FW adjusted to find the "Rama" over the front edge, he went to rapprochement. Using the advantage in height M, Glazov decided to bring down the enemy from the first call.

Catching it into the sight, pressed it on the gashter, but there were no queues - the cartridges were spent in battle. Then Glazov decided to go to Taran. He wanted to strike with a screw, but he did not calculate at dusk and crashed into one of the fuselages of Focke-Wulf. The enemy plane fell apart, but the Yak-1 caught fire and fell to the ground. In total, Lieutenant N.

Glazov made combat sorties from them more for reconnaissance, in 80 air battles he personally shot down 21 and in the group of 7 enemy aircraft. He was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, medals. Glazov was forever enrolled in the lists of the Guards Nikopol Fighter Aviation Regiment. At the site of the death of the hero, an obelisk is installed.

In Moscow, a memorial plate was installed in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces. The name of N. Glazov was knocked out on the stele on the Heroes Alley in Volgograd.