Biography of the pilot Kozheduba

The annotation board in Moscow 2 Kozhedub Ivan Nikitovich-commander of the air squadron of the Fighter Aviation Regiment, I am a fighter aviation division, 4th fighter aviation corps, 5th air army, steppe front, lieutenant; The commander of the air squadron of the Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment I am the Guards Fighter Aviation Division, the 5th Air Army, the 2nd Ukrainian Front, the Captain Guard; Deputy commander of the Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment I am an air army, the 1st Belorussian Front, the Major Guard.

He was born on June 8 in the village of Feozheevka Ivotsk volost of the Novgorod-Seversky district of the Chernihiv province of the Shostkinsky district of the Sumy region, Ukraine. In the year he graduated from the 7th grades of the school in his native village, in the year - 9 classes of the school in the city of Shostra. During his studies in high school, he worked at the school as a librarian.

In the years he studied at the Shostkin chemical and technological college. In parallel with his studies in the year, he graduated from the Shostkinsky flying club. In the army since February. He was left by an instructor pilot in the Chuguev air school, which was evacuated to the city of Chimkent now the city of Shymkent, Kazakhstan in the fall of the year.

In November, I. Kozheduba was sent to Moscow to the collection point of the false technical composition, from where he got to the fighter aviation regiment, which at that time was reorganized in the 2nd and M-Min Aviation Regiments at the Seima station and in the city of Ivanovo. A participant in the Great Patriotic War: in March - July - a pilot, senior pilot, a link commander, deputy commander of the air squadron and commander of the GO air squadron since July - GW Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

He fought in the Voronezh March-July, the steppe July-October and the 2nd Ukrainian October-July fronts. Since August - Deputy commander of the Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

He fought on the 1st Belarusian August-September and October-May and 3rd Baltic September-October Fronts. In September, I. Kozhedub, at the head of a separate group of “free hunters”, was sent to the 3rd Baltic Front, where he took part in the Riga operation. In less than a month of combat work, the group under his command shot down 8 enemy aircraft three of which were on the account of the commander.

After the war until September, he continued to serve at the Air Force as deputy commander of the Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment in Germany; SHENVALDA airfield. He flew on a LA fighter in May of the year he graduated from the Monino Air Force. In June, he was appointed deputy commander of the fighter aviation division in the Transcaucasian military district; The city of Baku, Azerbaijan, but a month later, at the initiative of the commander of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District, V.

Stalin was transferred to the Moscow Region. From July - assistant commander for flying training and deputy commander, and in November - February - commander of the fighter aviation division in the Moscow Military District; The village of Kubinka of the Moscow Region. Among the first in the fall of the year, he mastered the jet fighter of a mile of the 1st class military pilot in December of the year, I was among the first to be sent to China.

Until the spring of the year, the division pilots were engaged in the preparation of Chinese and Korean pilots. After the actions of South Korea’s aviation became more aggressive, the division was relocated to the border airfield of Andun, from where the combat work began on covering industrial and military facilities originally in northeastern China, and then in North Korea.

Member of the Korean War: in April - February - commander of the fighter aviation division. The pilots under his command won official victories, having lost 27 of their aircraft of a moment and 9 pilots. Kozhedub was strictly forbidden to personally participate in combat sorties. He occasionally made only day training flights. In February, after returning from Korea, I was transferred to the country's air defense system and transferred to the Oreshko airfield to the city of Kaluga.

In October, he graduated from the Higher Military Academy of the Military Academy of the General Staff. Since November-Deputy Head of the Combat Training Department of the Air Force, in September-April-Deputy Head of the Combat Training Department of Front Aviation of the Air Force. In April-January-1st deputy commander of the Air Army in the Leningrad Military District; The city of Leningrad, now St.

Petersburg. From July to August, during a business trip to V. Davidkov’s air army commander, I. Kozhedub performed his duties. In January-February-1st Deputy Commander of the Air Force since December-aviation of the Moscow Military District. General raid 1. In February-February-1st Deputy Head of Combat training of the Air Force. He lived in Moscow. He died on August 8.

He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery. The Honorary Citizen of the Cities of Kaluga, the bronze bust of I. Kozheduba, was awarded to 2 Orders of Lenin, was installed in the village of Feozheevka, Shostkinsky district of the Sumy region. Monuments I.Kozheduba are installed in Kyiv, Kharkov and Sumy, a bust in Shostka. In Moscow, on the house in which he lived, in a sheste on the building of the chemical and technology college where he studied, in Krolev, where he was, and in Facyevka at the place in which he was born, memorial boards were installed.

Museums of I. Kozheduba are open in Shostka and County. The name of I. Notes: 1 was awarded for the implementation of combat sorties and participation in 27 air battles, in which he personally shot down 20 enemy aircraft on October 10; 2 was awarded for the implementation of combat sorties and personally shot down by 46 enemy aircraft for July; 3 For not quite understandable reasons, in the post-war certifications of I.

Kozhedub, for some reason, the figure of 60 personally knocked down aircraft was indicated, although 64 personal victories are listed in operational and other documents. Military titles:.