Alexander EFIMOV: “The attack aircraft lives in battle”
A participant in the Great Patriotic War, an attack pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Air Marshal A. EFIMOV is a legendary personality for our aviation. And not only because his fate has absorbed the most difficult pages of the country’s biography and its glorious victories. Alexander Nikolayevich from 1984 to 1990 was the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force – Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR.
At that time, much was done to strengthen the combat power of the Air Force, modern aviation equipment was adopted, which to this day stands guard over the air borders of our Fatherland. Our correspondent met with the air marshal on the eve of Victory Day, and, of course, the conversation began with memories of the brightest and most joyful day.Alexander Efimov: From the Pleiades of the Great
The celebration of the 85th anniversary of the twice Hero of the Soviet Union Air Marshal Alexander Yefimov resulted in a stunning evening for the entire domestic aviation, cosmonautics and aviation industry.
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Over the battlefield
Publisher’s abstract: Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Air Marshal A.N. Efimov began his front-line path in August 1942. Defending the Motherland, he fought the enemy until the victorious end of the war, smashed the fascist hordes near Rzhev and Orel, Bryansk and Smolensk, in Belarus, Poland and Germany, made 222 sorties, destroyed a lot of enemy manpower and equipment. The harsh front-line everyday life, the exploits of comrades-in-arms are described in the memoirs of the former squadron commander of the 198th assault regiment of the 4th air army. Now Marshal of Aviation Alexander Nikolaevich Efimov is the first deputy commander-in-chief of the USSR Air Force. His memoirs are intended for the mass reader.From sergeant to marshal
From the award list: 5.2.45 on the second run, during the attack of a tank column moving along the MELZAK-BRAUNSBERG road, Captain EFIMOV’s plane was shot down, which subsequently caught fire. Threatening death did not stop the revenge of Captain EFIMOV. With a sharp glide he knocked down the flames, Captain EFIMOV once again led the ILYUSHINS into battle, defiantly destroying the manpower and equipment of the pr-ka. As a result of this raid, 6 tanks, 2 field artillery guns, 2 armored personnel carriers, 4 vehicles and up to 40 manpower were destroyed.
HELLO MAN!
TWICE Hero of the Soviet Union Marshal of Aviation Alexander Nikolaevich Efimov turned 85 years old. He was born on February 6, 1923 in the family of a railway worker in the village of Kantemirovka, Voronezh Region. From an early age, he became interested in aviation, loved to make aircraft models, and soon experienced the joy of flying in a glider. From that time on, this was how his worldly fate went: from the model to the glider, from the glider to the plane.
