Brief biography of Meresyev

Pilot Alexei Petrovich Maresyev Biography of Aleksey Maresyev Maresyev Alexei Petrovich, whose feat was the basis of the school course of Soviet literature, was born on May 20 in the city of the boy, when he was only three years old and his mother, a cleaning lady at the factory, was left alone with three children.

Having received secondary education, Alexei Maresyev became a metal turner at the forestry, although all his dreams were about the sky. The young guy submitted documents twice with a request to enroll in the flight school and both once received a refusal due to health problems. As a child, Alexei Petrovich suffered a heavy form of malaria, which led to rheumatism. In the year, on the instructions of the Komsomol district committee, Alexei Maresyev went to the construction of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, at the same time attending classes in a local aero club.

After the service in the army, to which Maresyev was called up in G, he was finally sent to the A. Serov Aviation School in Bataisk, which successfully graduated from his flight biography in G. - and then there was a Great Patriotic War ... The first military flight of Maresy Aleksey Petrovich took place on August 23 near Krivoy Rog. At that time, the future hero of the USSR was already in the M at the Aviation Fighter Regiment.

To g, when Alexei was transferred to the North-Western Front, the biography of the lieutenant already totaled four feats in the form of four enemy enemy aircraft. The legendary feat of Alexei Petrovich Maresyev but his most famous feat, which formed the basis of the work of Boris Polevoy, “The Tale of the Real Man”, Maresyev Alexei Petrovich, in April, Maresyev was shot down in one of the forest regions of the Novgorod region when he covered the Soviet bombers.

The pilot was seriously injured in both legs, but he was able to land. The territory around was occupied by the Germans and to him, the wounded, first on his feet, and then crawled carefully to move towards the front line. The crippled legs were sick, and it was necessary to eat cones, berries and bark of trees. After 18 days, the exhausted Alexei was met by the father and son from the village of Plav, took him for a German and hastened to leave.

After that, the boys from the same village were already discovered by a barely living man. One of them called his father, who took the wounded home. Village residents looked after him for more than a week, but professional assistance was urgently needed, and soon the seriously ill Maresyev was sent by air to the Moscow hospital. As the son of Maresyev, Victor, later recalled these facts from the biography of his father, did not work out the wounded in the hospital, and Alexei Petrovich, almost half -dead, was already preparing to be sent to the morgue - gangrene and blood poisoning began.

By accident, Professor Terebinsky passed by the dying man, who saved his life, amputating both legs. It would seem that the end of all the exploits and careers of the pilot, but Maresyev Alexei Petrovich and then did not allow fate to get over him. Even in the hospital, and then in the sanatorium, this strong -willed man began to train little in order to fly with prostheses instead of legs.

And the miracle happened! In the city of Maresyev, he went through the medical board and was sent to the Ibresino flight school in Chuvashia, and in the same year he made his first trial flight without legs. It all ended safely, so Maresyev Alexei Petrovich began to ask for sending to the front. The response received permission to serve in the Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, although the disabled person was not allowed to combat missions for a long time.

The experiences of Alexei were noticed by the squadron commander A. Dupil and took him with him on a combat mission. Then, more and more, until, finally, confidence from the senior authorities has not increased and they began to let him into the sky along with others. Already on July 20, Maresyev Alexei Petrovich committed a new feat - saved the lives of two Soviet pilots during an air battle with an advantage of forces on the side of the Nazis.

During this battle, there were two German FW German fighters, which were covered by bombers. For this feat of August 24 of the same year, Maresyev A. Glory spread to him throughout the front, and correspondents began to visit the hero’s regiment, among whom was the future writer B. Polevoy, who glorified the feat of Maresyev throughout the country. In the year, Maresyev agreed to become an inspector-lieutenant in the department of universities of the Air Force.

Over the entire time of the war, his combat biography of exploits totaled 86 sorties and 11 shot down the enemy aircraft. After his resignation, Maresyev A. Thanks to the first a textbook “Tale of a real man,” he became widely known throughout the country. On the feat and example of the courage of a “real person”, a younger generation was brought up. Maresyev Alexei Petrovich was invited many times to meetings with schoolchildren.

The hero died on May 18, an hour before the start of a solemn evening dedicated to his own flying. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. Based on the “Tale of a real man”, B. Polevoi at Mosfilm was shot in the year the film of the same name was shot. And already in our time in the year - the documentary film "Fate of a real person."In those places where Maresyev’s life path passed, they honor the memory of a brave pilot.

He set a bust in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, which he once built. There is a memorial plaque in Bataisk, where he studied at the Flight School in the year. In Chuvash Ibresin, where he restored his flight skills after the hospital in the local flight school, there is also a memorial plaque and its name street. There is also a commemorative board and the street in Moscow, where it lived in the post -war years.

And in the small homeland of Alexei Maresyev, in the city of Kamyshin, the Volgograd region on the day of his anniversary, on May 20, the monument dedicated to him was opened, the work of the Volgograd sculptor Sergei Shcherbakov, an honored artist of Russia. Maresyev is captured in the image of a pilot in a flight suit who looks tense into the distance. A three -meter bronze figure is installed on a granite pedestal, on which Maresyev’s words about his hometown are carved - “Never and nowhere I have seen such a pure sky and blue azure as in the Kamyshin.

As I wanted to fly then ... ". The monument is located at the intersection of two central streets near the house in which the pilot once lived.