How I entered the Barnaul vvaul. The role of the Barnaul Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots in the training of flight personnel

BARNAUL HIGHER MILITARY AVIATION SCHOOL OF PILOTS was created on the basis of the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated August 18, 1966. At the beginning of 1966, at a meeting with the commander in chief, the issue of training fighter aircraft interceptor pilots was discussed. Nikishin proposed creating a training air army in Siberia to train pilots not only for fighter aircraft, but also for attack and bomber aircraft. (Then they were clearly thinking on a larger scale than now.) To which the Commander-in-Chief evasively replied that this needed to be discussed with headquarters. That's where the conversation ended. A month later, the Commander-in-Chief called Nikishin: “What do you think, if we propose to form a higher education institution in your district?” military school pilots?" - “I’m looking with pleasure!” - “Then think about where you can place it.” The commander of the Siberian Military District refused to help: “Think, this is your question.” First Secretary of the Novosibirsk Regional Party Committee Goryachev F.S. answered negatively It's too troublesome to do this complex problem. The Chairman of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences, Academician Lavrentiev almost agreed, but upon hearing that he also jet planes will fly, I finally changed my mind. The first secretary of the Altai regional party committee, Alexander Vasilyevich Georgiev, after Nikishin’s call, offered to meet and talk in detail. The meeting took place on the same day. The commander flew in on a plane, on which he and Georgiev flew over all the proposed locations of the school’s airfields. A.V. Georgiev supported the idea of ​​​​creating a military flight school in Altai from the very first day and immediately began to actively help in all organizational matters. It was only thanks to Georgiev that the army command decided to locate the school on the territory of the region. This is how the resolution of the Council of Ministers and the order of the Minister of Defense appeared on the creation and location of the Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots in the Altai Territory. And then they began to recruit a team, deploy, build, select specialists, teachers, pilots, engineers, and technicians. The work is intensive and complex, but by the beginning of the summer of 1967 they were ready for the first intake of cadets. And the first graduation of pilot engineers trained by the Barnaul VVAUL took place in October 1971. During their studies, half of the graduates mastered three types of aircraft, including one supersonic Yak-28 - the same one that is on the pedestal at the school on Komsomolsky Prospekt. It was a great achievement. Start almost from scratch and in five years produce trained military pilots with higher education...

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With the collapse of the USSR, many military schools were disbanded, and the same fate befell BVVAUL. Until recently, the teachers did not believe that their school could be closed, because it gave thousands of tickets to heaven. However, disbandment was inevitable. The cadets were transferred to Armavir, the teaching and support staff were transferred to the reserve, and the area occupied by the school was transferred to the Barnaul Law Institute. But love for the sky and dedication to the job are the traits that distinguish people who have even the slightest connection to aviation. Graduates and teachers of BVVAUL carefully preserve the memory of their educational institution, collecting exhibits for the museum, which was located until 2009 in the former building of the school. Subsequently, the exhibition was moved to the City Museum, where an entire hall was allocated for this purpose. Now the historical heritage of BVVAUL is available to most citizens. The exhibition features photographs, aircraft models, an ejection seat, the uniform of Air Chief Marshal Konstantin Andreevich Vershinin and much more.

In 10th grade I decided to become a military pilot. But also, of course, a fighter. Well, who else?.. And go, of course, to Kacha.
I passed the regional medical commission on the second attempt. At the regional one in Omsk they rejected it. The photographs of the sinuses are dark - “not fit to be a pilot.”
He did a lot of sports: cross-country skiing. In 1973, they won the relay at regional competitions and 7th place in the individual competition. For Siberia, where every 2nd skier is a great success. Somewhere during the competition I caught a cold. Now there is no flight school in sight.
In Omsk, I was given a sealed package with my applicant documents and told to return it back to the regional military registration and enlistment office of Kalachinsk.
What else did I lack discipline or intelligence back then? But I opened the package and took out the documents necessary for free admission (bypassing the military registration and enlistment offices and going straight to the school). I sealed the package and handed it over to the military registration and enlistment office.
Now the question arises: where to send documents for admission? To Kacha? Everything is fine, but it’s a long way to get to Volgograd, you need a lot of money for a ticket, and it’s a round-trip ticket: if they don’t accept you, you’ll have to go back, you have a big family, and you don’t have extra money.
The closest one is Barnaul VVAUL. But at that time it trained front-line bomber aviation pilots. (I found out from the school military instructor, Captain V.N. Dozorov) And yet you will have to go to Barnaul: not far away and return closer.
Sent documents to Barnaul VVAUL.
Literally on the 2nd or 3rd day after school graduation, a call came from the school: to come to Barnaul for admission. But most importantly, the call said: “the military commissar should issue military transportation documents to the applicant.”
I'm going to the military registration and enlistment office to get travel passes. The major from the military registration and enlistment office, who dealt with applicants to military universities, when he saw my “invitation” to come to the Barnaul VVAUL for admission, and even with instructions to write out the VPD, he became incredibly furious. He shouted for a long time about the regional commission and the package. He switched from normal language to another and told me everything he knew from his many years of “commander” training. I remember that on his shoulder straps there were red gaps and emblems of combined arms troops. Who I was could be heard on all two floors of the military registration and enlistment office.
When he was exhausted, he gave the command: “Write him travel cards to Barnaul.” And then he again switched to “commander” language, from which I only understood that it was better for me not to go back...

...So I entered the Barnaul Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots. Finished it.
And then he became a fighter pilot. And he flew MiG-29 aircraft for a long time.

And I still remember the major from the district military registration and enlistment office with words of enormous gratitude.

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Military pilot-instructor first class, reserve colonel B.V. Maksimenko.

The school was created on the basis of the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of August 18, 1966. On September 9 of the same year, an order was signed by the USSR Minister of Defense, in which the location of the newly created flight university was determined to be twice decorated Altai region. This is how dry and short a fragment from historical information. Someone decided, someone decided and the order for deployment was ready, and then everything started spinning, spinning, and military pilots flew to all corners of the vast Motherland to defend and guard its expanses.

After decades, you may not even think about whose merit it is, but you can remember. Behind every resolution, decree or order there have always been and are specific people with their destinies and deeds.

I heard the story of the Barnaul airman many years ago from Dmitry Tikhonovich Nikishin, the man who played main role in the creation of the school.

In that memorable year for the school, 1966 Air Force The USSR was headed by Chief Marshal of Aviation Konstantin Andreevich Vershinin, and the Air Force of the Siberian Military District was commanded by Lieutenant General Dmitry Tikhonovich Nikishin.

At the beginning of 1966, at a meeting with the commander in chief, the issue of training fighter aircraft interceptor pilots was discussed. Nikishin proposed creating a training air army in Siberia to train pilots not only for fighter aircraft, but also for attack and bomber aircraft. (Then they were clearly thinking on a larger scale than now.) To which the Commander-in-Chief evasively replied that this needed to be discussed with headquarters. That's where the conversation ended.

A month later, the Commander-in-Chief called Nikishin:

- “What do you think if we propose to form a higher military school for pilots in your district?”

- “I’m watching with pleasure!”

- “Then think about where you can place it.”

The commander of the Siberian Military District refused help:

- “Think, this is your question.”

First Secretary of the Novosibirsk Regional Party Committee Goryachev F.S. answered negatively. It is too troublesome to deal with such a complex problem.

The chairman of the Siberian branch of the Academy of Sciences, Academician Lavrentiev almost agreed, but when he heard that jet planes would also fly, he immediately changed his mind completely.

The first secretary of the Altai regional party committee, Alexander Vasilyevich Georgiev, after Nikishin’s call, offered to meet and talk in detail. The meeting took place on the same day. The commander flew in on a plane, on which he and Georgiev flew over all the proposed locations of the school’s airfields.

A.V. Georgiev supported the idea of ​​​​creating a military flight school in Altai from the very first day and immediately began to actively help in all organizational matters. It was only thanks to Georgiev that the army command decided to locate the school in the region. They approached him with a request to call the USSR Minister of Defense R.Ya. Malinovsky. Alexander Vasilyevich fulfilled this request.

This is how the resolution of the Council of Ministers and the order of the Minister of Defense appeared on the creation and location of the Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots in the Altai Territory.

And then they began to recruit a team, deploy, build, select specialists, teachers, pilots, engineers, and technicians. The work is intensive and complex, but by the beginning of the summer of 1967 they were ready for the first intake of cadets. And the first graduation of pilot engineers trained by the Barnaul VVAUL took place in October 1971. During their studies, half of the graduates mastered three types of aircraft, including one supersonic Yak-28 - the same one that is on the pedestal at the school on Komsomolsky Prospekt. It was a great achievement. Start practically from scratch and in five years produce trained military pilots with higher education.

Three people decided the fate of Barnaul VVAUL:

Vershinin Konstantin Andreevich - the school bears his name.

Georgiev Alexander Vasilyevich - it is simply impossible to list everything he did for the school; he helped constantly from the first days and for many years in a row until his death.

Dmitry Tikhonovich Nikishin is the person to whom the school owes the very idea of ​​its creation; he lit the first fire.

But it is not the only people who participated in the implementation of the idea of ​​​​creating the Barnaul Military Flight School.

Parfenov Evgeniy Erofeevich - at that time the first secretary of the Kamensky district party committee - did a lot to organize the life and work of the flight training regiment in the city of Kamen on the Ob.

Ivan Dmitrievich Naletov, Chairman of the Barnaul City Executive Committee, helped in the arrangement of the school and the provision of housing for military personnel in Barnaul.

Nevsky Alexander Nikolaevich - first secretary of the Slavgorod district party committee - helped in the formation of the Slavgorod flight training regiment.

It is impossible to list them all, but they are remembered.

Evgeniy ZHIGALOV ( graduate of the school in 1975, 1st class instructor pilot, head of the department at the time of its closure, retired colonel).

On the evening of August 2, 1912, the streets of Barnaul were crowded with people. Everyone walked in the same direction - behind the prison, towards the hippodrome of the Society of Equestrian Sports Fans. However, it was not the horse racing that caused the excitement - the first demonstration flight of the famous aviator A.A. was supposed to take place at the hippodrome in Barnaul. Vasilyev, who arrived the day before by boat from Novonikolaevsk. Tickets, which cost from 30 kopecks to 3 rubles, were sold out long before the performance. Having made four large circles over the racetrack, the monoplane landed exactly in the center of the field, after which the spectators were able to take a closer look and even touch the amazing car.

This was the first acquaintance of Barnaul residents with aviation.

Regular air service between Barnaul and neighboring cities began in 1931. PO-2 planes of the Barnaul aviation unit carried out mail, cargo, and, less often, ambulance and passenger flights.

In 1935, a flying club was created in Barnaul, which became part of the OSOAVIAKHIM structure and became a source of personnel for military and civil aviation. Aeroclub cadets could study both part-time and on-the-job; the annual intake for pilot courses was more than 200 people.

The beginning of the Great Patriotic War required significant changes in the flight training system. By order of the Altai Regional Council of OSOAVIAKHIM No. 096 dated August 7, 1942, the training aircraft of the Barnaul flying club were transferred to the Red Army, and all training equipment, vehicles, subsidiary farm and the airfield with all the equipment came under the jurisdiction of the parachute and gliding club. Many graduates of the Barnaul flying club, having graduated from aviation schools, became professional military pilots and fought with dignity on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Eight Barnaul residents, students of the flying club, were awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union, and one of them is P.A. Plotnikov became the only twice Hero in Altai.

The Barnaul flying club was recreated in the 1950s in the DOSAAF system and exists to this day.

However, the event that truly connected Barnaul with the sky and big aviation occurred in 1966. Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union R.Ya. Malinovsky signed Order No. 0192 of September 9, 1966, providing for the creation of five new higher military schools. Among them was the Barnaul Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots, consisting of three aviation regiments.

The school was created on the basis of the 48th Military Aviation School of Mechanics. The school administration was located in Barnaul, the training aircraft regiment was located in locality Panfilovo, regiments of combat aircraft - in the garrisons of Topchikha and Slavgorod. The location for the school was not chosen by chance: the only one beyond the Urals, it was created taking into account strategic considerations and climatic conditions.

Aviation Lieutenant General D.T. Nikishin, commander of the Siberian Military District Air Force and one of the initiators of the creation of the school, wrote in his memoirs:

“As a result of the reductions, the Siberian district became third-rate; there were almost no troops left in it. Every time, on occasion, I proposed to the Air Force command: “Let’s create a training air army in Siberia, or whatever you want to call it, and I will train pilots in it for any type and branch of aviation, for any conditions.”

...A month later the call came to Novosibirsk. I immediately recognized the voice of Konstantin Andreevich (Vershinin, Chief Marshal of Aviation, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force - Deputy Minister of Defense - V.Ch.): “What do you think if we propose to form a higher military school for pilots in your district?” I answer: “With pleasure!” - “Then think about where it can be placed?”

I returned to headquarters and called the first secretary of the Altai regional committee of the CPSU, Alexander Vasilyevich Georgiev. We agreed to meet. The next day I flew to Barnaul and told him the essence of the matter. Alexander Vasilyevich immediately supported this idea.

...Then, together with specialists, we analyzed meteorological conditions, the number of sunny and cloudy days per year. It became clear that it was necessary to report to K.A. Vershinin that the only place where pilots can be stationed and truly trained is the Altai Territory.”

By the way, subsequently, in 1974, the Barnaul VVAUL was named after the Chief Marshal of Aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union K.A. Vershinina.

Alexander Rutskoy is one of the most famous graduates of BVVAUL.

The newly formed school was located on the territory with which the long-standing military traditions of the Barnaul residents were associated. Military town on the street. Chkalov was built at the beginning of the 20th century to house the 12th Barnaul Siberian Infantry Regiment, which bravely fought in the Russo-Japanese War and received the Banner of St. George for the battle near Dashichao. During the Great Patriotic War, the same barracks housed the Lepel artillery and mortar school evacuated to Barnaul and the military infantry school formed in Barnaul.

The basis of the teaching and engineering personnel of the Barnaul VVAUL were teachers and graduates from two neighboring aviation schools, disbanded in 1960. These are the Stalingrad (Siberian) Military Aviation School of Pilots, located in the city of Ob, Novosibirsk Region, and the Omsk Military Aviation School of Air Force Pilots.

Aviation Major General V.N. was appointed the first head of the school. Filimonov.

On February 6, 1967, the first plane for the newly created school landed at the DOSAAF airfield in Barnaul. It was a Li-2 command plane, which was transferred from the Kansk Military Aviation School of Gunners and Radio Operators.

In the spring of 1967, an announcement was placed in the regional newspaper about the beginning of admission of applicants to the newly created pilot school. Behind a short time 1,700 applicants applied for admission. Among them were both civilian youth and military personnel different kinds troops. After exams, which were taken in one of the secondary schools in Barnaul, 208 cadets were enrolled in the school.

The first academic year began on September 1, 1967, and on February 23, 1968, the commander of the Siberian Military District Air Force, Lieutenant General D.T. Nikishin solemnly presented the Red Banner of Battle to the personnel of the BVVAUL.

Barracks of the Barnaul regiment.

The old barracks, which originally housed the school, required serious repairs and adaptation to the needs of the modern military educational institution, as well as the construction of new buildings. In this regard, the necessary areas were cleared on the territory of the town: wooden buildings along Chkalov and Partizanskaya streets were demolished. On January 5, 1968, the foundation was laid for a new educational building and living quarters for cadets. The design of the educational building of the Kachinsky VVAUL, modified by Altaigrazhdanproekt, was taken as a basis. In September 1971, construction was completed.

The building housed: a conference hall with 800 seats, lecture halls with 210 seats, an aviation hangar classroom, laboratories for aerodynamics, aircraft navigation, radio electronics, aviation weapons, a gym and a swimming pool.

Barracks for cadet pilots.

The training of real military professionals was carried out by teachers united in several specialized departments. Among them one can name the Department of Design and Operation of Aviation Equipment, where cadets acquired knowledge on the design of the main types of aircraft and their operating systems. Academic disciplines taught at the departments of aviation and radio-electronic equipment of aircraft, aircraft navigation, combat use of aircraft weapons, aerodynamics and flight dynamics complemented the knowledge of cadets and turned them not just into pilots, but also into engineers - the technical elite of the Armed Forces. Important place V educational process was devoted to classes at the Department of Air Force Tactics, where the training process was based on the far-sighted principle of “knowing the enemy better than your troops.” This principle made it possible to form cadets not only into knowledgeable officers, but also into future commanders.

Received theoretical knowledge cadets used it in practice - in training aviation regiments.

The 44th training aviation regiment of the Barnaul VVAUL was based at the station. Kalmanka (Novoromanovo village), at the Panfilovo airfield. In August 1967, the first 10 Czechoslovak L-29 aircraft arrived at the Slavgorod-Severny airfield from Ivano-Frankovsk, which at that time were considered the best training aircraft and were supplied to all countries of the Warsaw Pact. Aircraft of this type formed the basis of the regiment, which in 1971 was relocated from Slavgorod to Kalmanka. Flights were carried out from several airfields.

Flights in the 59th Training Aviation Regiment began on January 14, 1969. In March 1970, the Slavgorod Aviation Regiment began training cadets in flight practice. During the existence of the regiment, its personnel mastered a number of types of aircraft: Il-28, L-29, MiG-21, L-39.

First edition. 1971

The 96th training aviation regiment of the BVVAUL, based in Kamen-on-Obi, has been training cadets on the Yak-28 aircraft since 1970, and on the MiG-21 since 1983. It was the Yak-28, as one of the main training aircraft, that was installed in 1980 in front of the educational building of the school on Komsomolsky Ave. in Barnaul.

Future pilots first learned on simulators...

...then in the sky. L-29 is landing.

During its existence, the Barnaul Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after Chief Marshal of Aviation K.A. Vershinina made 28 releases of military professionals high level, more than 1000 people in total.

More than 200 graduates of the school took part in hostilities, of which there were so many at the end of the last and at the beginning of this century. In particular, about 80 graduates and teachers of BVVAUL performed their duty in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

Senior Lieutenant K.G. is forever included in the lists of the school’s personnel. Pavlyukov, a 1984 graduate, posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Opening of the bust of Hero of the Soviet Union Konstantin Pavlyukov.

Among the first set of cadets was Sergeant A.V. Rutskoi is a future combat pilot who completed 428 combat missions in Afghanistan, a future major general of aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union and Vice President of the Russian Federation.

Rutsky’s autograph is in the Book of Reviews of Honorary Guests of the School. Who's there? Representatives of the high command of the Armed Forces, legendary aces of the Great Patriotic War, cosmonauts... The last entry in this book became a kind of motto for graduates and veterans of the school: “Dissolution is not the end of the flight!”

There is a play on words here: the word “disbandment,” on the one hand, can be considered synonymous with “disbandment,” but in aviation, “disbandment” is an element of a group flight that precedes landing. However, the completion of this element does not give grounds to consider the flight completed. It is “group cohesion” that BVVAUL graduates have been demonstrating for almost 20 years. The city got used to their traditional August formations and ceremonial marches from the school grounds to River station. And we know that the memory of the school and the strong military brotherhood will live as long as at least one graduate remains alive.

...In November 1998, a farewell ceremony took place with the Battle Banner of the Barnaul VVAUL.

The head of the school, Colonel Yuri Kononov, says goodbye to the battle flag.

The head of the school, Colonel Yuri Kononov, concluded his speech like this: “Today the Banner of the school is transferred to the Central Museum Armed Forces. But, as Peter I said, “whoever swore allegiance to the banner once must stand by it all his life.” Remember the fighting traditions that were created here!”

The school's brass band plays the march "Farewell of the Slav", to which companies march past the banner, and the Banner is forever taken away from the parade ground.

And I would like to end with dry facts from the encyclopedia:

On April 25, 1999, the school was disbanded. The cadets were transferred to Armavir, the teaching and service personnel were transferred to the reserve, and the area occupied by the school was transferred to the Barnaul Law Institute.

Vyacheslav Chernov, deputy director of the Barnaul City Museum.

Photos from the collections of the City Museum.