Soviet pilot-cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskayaset eight world records in piloting, becoming a real ace. She became the second after Tereshkova woman who conquered space. With these achievements, she added fame to her last name. Her father is Marshal Savitsky, a veteran pilot of the Great Patriotic War and a gentleman of two golden stars of the Hero.
The life of the whole family is connected with heaven. Lydia Pavlovna, the wife of the legendary ace, was also a valiant aviator during the war, she was awarded the Order of the Red Star for her exploits.
Evgeny Savitsky was brought up in ordinary laborfamily. In 1917, he was orphaned, left his father's house. The fate of a homeless child changed after he went to an orphanage, and then to a vocational school. After the FZU, he, working at a cement plant, mastered several working professions and showed abilities to master complex machinery.
Following the motto of those years “Komsomolets - on a plane!»A nineteen-year-old young man became a student of the 4th Stalingrad Aviation School, where he persistently studied the equipment and mastered piloting skills. After its completion, the future Marshal Savitsky is distributed in the Far Eastern Military District, where, as early as 1929, he applied this knowledge during combat operations at the border.
By the beginning of the war, he was already an experienced pilot, teachingnew generation of young pilots. Major Savitsky rushes to the front, but he is denied, citing the need for high-class instructors in the rear. In the fall of 1941, he still manages to get into the warhead as an intern. The LaGG-3 fighter is his first combat vehicle, and the pilot uses all of its capabilities, knocking down the Messerschmitt - 109 and nearly dying himself. New, 1942, Savitsky Evgeny Yakovlevich notes, performing the task of special importance, delivering an ultra-precise blow to the German headquarters.
The pilot’s perseverance gives results, hisappointed to command the 205th Air Division, with which he happened to go through a glorious combat path. The air force is a special branch of the military; the pilot-commanders participate in air battles on a par with everyone. Now he flies on the Yaks, with which all four terrible years remain faithful. The only exception is the personal “Lavochkin-5” with the inscription “Valery Chkalov” on the fuselage presented by the workers in Gorky.
In 1944, the plane was shot down by anti-aircraft firethe enemy, when he was forced to land a spinal cord injury. That day he was given the rank of lieutenant general and was awarded the first star of the Hero.
Всего в течение войны летчик Савицкий сбил Twenty-two enemy aircraft, not counting group victories and staff Storch, are already over Berlin. By the way, it was on this one that Adolf Hitler could have tried to escape from retribution.
After the war, the hero did not rest on his laurels, and masterednew types of aircraft and led the training in the USSR Air Force. Marshal Savitsky was the author of fascinating books about Soviet aviation and the history of the war in the air.
At 63 years old, the celebrated pilot accomplishedyour last flight in life. One can only guess about the emotions that he experienced, raising the supersonic interceptor in the air. Perhaps he recalled his Yak-3 ...
Marshal Savitsky died in 1990, before reaching the collapse of the country he loved and defended as best he could.
Old pilots do not die, they take off and remain in heaven.
