Gavrilin Pavel Biography

The tombstone of Gavrilin Pavel Fedorovich-the commander of the GO Fighter Aviation Regiment, I am a fighter aviation division, the 3rd fighter aviation corps, I am an air army, the 1st Belorussian Front, a lieutenant. He was born on February 20 in the village of Mamhevo, Pilninsky volost of the Kurmshsky district of the Simbirsk province of now Pilninsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

In the years he lived in the city of Dzerzhinsk now Nizhny Novgorod region, since the beginning of the year - in the city of Stupino, Moscow Region. In the year he graduated from the 8th grades of the school. In the year he graduated from the Stupinsky aero club. In the army since April. In March, he graduated from the Kachinsky military aviation school of pilots.

The Far Eastern Front served in the Air Force by the Piller of the DO Fighter Aviation Regiment. Since December-the pilot of the fighter aviation regiment, which was undergoing retraining in the rear of the Bagay-Baranovka airfield, Volsky district of the Saratov region.

Member of the Great Patriotic War: in April - May - a pilot, senior pilot and commander of the DO fighter aviation regiment. He fought in the North Caucasus April-June, South September-October, 4th Ukrainian October-May and 1st Belarusian November-May fronts. He made a forced landing in the territory occupied by the enemy. After the liberation of the village, until September, he was under the cure in hospitals in the cities of Melitopol Zaporizhzhya region, Ukraine and Kharkov Ukraine.

In total, during the war he made combat sorties on fighters Yak-1B, Yak-9T and Yak-3, in 61 air battle he personally shot down 22 and as part of group 1 of the enemy’s aircraft. After the war, he continued to serve in the Air Force commander of the GO Fighter Aviation Regiment in the group of Soviet troops in Germany, but at the end of the year was removed from flying work on high -speed aircraft due to health reasons.

In October-October-the commander of the 3rd Aviation Route of the 3rd since February, the fighter aviation corps in the group of Soviet troops in Germany. B - the commander of the GO link of a separate aviation regiment of helicopters in the Moscow Military District; The city of Serpukhov of the Moscow Region, V-deputy commander of the training air squadron of light helicopters of the 5th training center of the Air Force village of Teply Stan, now in Moscow.

Since December, Major P. Gavrilin is in stock. He lived in the city of Solntsevo since May - within Moscow. He died on April 10. He was buried in the Khovansky cemetery in Moscow. The lieutenant colonel was awarded the Order of Lenin Honorary Citizen of the city of Volsk, Saratov Region, the bust of P. Gavrilin was installed on the Heroes Alley in the village of Pilna of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

His name is a street in the village of Mameshevo. Note: he was awarded for the implementation of combat sorties and participation in 54 air battles, in which he personally shot down 19 enemy aircraft in May. P. Gavrilin’s real combat account at the time of the registration of the award sheet was higher.