Vladimir Seryogin
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Vladimir Sergeyevich Seryogin (in Russian, Владимир Сергеевич Серёгин, Moscow July 7, 1922 – March 27, 1968) was a Soviet test pilot, a Hero of the Soviet Union, who was awarded medals of the 1st and 2nd degrees in the World War II
, and later the Lenin award.
Vladimir Seryogin, developed since childhood a firm, determined and fearless character. He dreamed of the skies on school benches, and became a volunteer of the Red Army right after school. There, his abilities were recognized, and he was directed to piloting, whence Vladimir was sent to the front. Not a month had passed that Vladimir Seryogin became the senior pilot of his regiment. A participant of the German-Soviet War, Vladimir Seryogin, still a young pilot, had acquired much fighting experience.
After the termination of the war, Vladimir Seryogin, remained to serve in the Air Forces of the USSR. Having ended engineering academy, Vladimir had gone on to work for test institute of the Air Forces, as a test pilot. He performed enormous work as such. Time and again, Seryogin, as the leading test pilot for the MiG-15, faced difficult situations, but coped with those each and every time and thereafter delivered useful reports. Also, Vladimir Seryogin was the commanding officer for the Cosmonauts' Flight Preparation.
The life of the great pilot, the competent expert and the benevolent person, was broken in 1968 in an air crash on a MiG-15 together with the first-ever cosmonaut, his close friend and colleague, Yuri Gagarin
. Gagarin and Seryogin were buried in the walls of the Kremlin
on Red Square
.
Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...
, and later the Lenin award.
Vladimir Seryogin, developed since childhood a firm, determined and fearless character. He dreamed of the skies on school benches, and became a volunteer of the Red Army right after school. There, his abilities were recognized, and he was directed to piloting, whence Vladimir was sent to the front. Not a month had passed that Vladimir Seryogin became the senior pilot of his regiment. A participant of the German-Soviet War, Vladimir Seryogin, still a young pilot, had acquired much fighting experience.
After the termination of the war, Vladimir Seryogin, remained to serve in the Air Forces of the USSR. Having ended engineering academy, Vladimir had gone on to work for test institute of the Air Forces, as a test pilot. He performed enormous work as such. Time and again, Seryogin, as the leading test pilot for the MiG-15, faced difficult situations, but coped with those each and every time and thereafter delivered useful reports. Also, Vladimir Seryogin was the commanding officer for the Cosmonauts' Flight Preparation.
The life of the great pilot, the competent expert and the benevolent person, was broken in 1968 in an air crash on a MiG-15 together with the first-ever cosmonaut, his close friend and colleague, Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961....
. Gagarin and Seryogin were buried in the walls of the Kremlin
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Burials in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow began in November 1917, when 240 pro-Bolshevik victims of the October Revolution were buried in mass graves on Red Square. It is centered on both sides of Lenin's Mausoleum, initially built in wood in 1924 and rebuilt in granite in 1929–1930...
on Red Square
Red Square
Red Square is a city square in Moscow, Russia. The square separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod...
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