Hello dear professionals. For a long time I was not on the forum and in the subject. With your permission, I will continue the amazing stories of the return of the Memory and indeed of our great warriors from nonexistence.
I will continue in this thread, my unusual stories, where I help the Search squads, who search and find the remains of Soviet soldiers, help to search for relatives who have already lost hope at least once to hear the name of their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers. But then we, the modern inhabitants of our planet, will not allow it to be so simple to leave the memory of what they did for us.
And here is another story that shocked me and at the same time that gives me the strength to continue what I do.
On July 15, 2017, at 10.55 a.m., in the vicinity of the Gorskaya village of the city of St. Petersburg, the Wings of the Motherland OSP, the crash site of the Soviet MiG-3 fighter was discovered.
At the initial visual inspection, it became clear that when the plane crashed, it went deep into the ground and was not plundered after the war. Having started to lift, almost immediately a part was discovered on which the aircraft number 3009 was painted.
According to the documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: "From the operational duty of the 26th IAP. On July 19, 1942 at 21.35 in the Gorskaya area, the MiG-3 No. 3009 crashed during a training flight.
07/19/1942 When flying two planes at 21:07 - 21:55 at an altitude of 900 meters after conducting training air combat, the deputy commander of AE 26 IAP Air Defense, senior lieutenant Gennady Iosifovich Belikov made a coup and went into a dive. At the dive, the MiG-3 No. 3009 flipped over two or three times and with a 90-degree angle at high speed, with the engine running, crashed into the ground 4 km east of Gorskaya. The pilot died.
On the first day of the work, it was possible to go deep by a half meter. Basically, there were fragments of the tail section of the aircraft, which indicated that the engine and cockpit were much deeper. Only on the fourth day of the search operations at a depth of about five meters was it possible to detect the wreckage of the fighter’s cabin. Behind the fragmented fragments of the pilot’s armor plate was the body of the deceased pilot. The pilot was dressed in a cotton tunic with buttonholes of the senior lieutenant of the Air Force, blue cloth breeches and spring boots. The following documents were in the left breast pocket of the tunic:
- Identity card of the commanding staff of the Red Army in the name of Gennady Iosifovich Belikov, born in 1913, a native of the Ivanovo region, Alexandrovsky, the village of Mukhanovo;
- Settlement book of the commanding staff of the Red Army;
- An order to change the location of the airfield;
- A notebook with notes and sketches of the tactical and technical characteristics of the Mig-3 fighter and personal information of the deceased pilot.
In the right pocket of the tunic there was an ink fountain pen, a chemical pencil, 5 banknotes (par value of 10 chervonets, 3 rubles and 1 ruble), as well as a lighter.
In one of the pockets of the breeches was a handkerchief. A decorative finca knife hung on the pilot's belt. A fur sleeveless jacket was worn over the tunic, and a parachute pack with a parachute was fastened over the sleeveless jacket: type PL-3M No. P804 production date: January 4, 1941
After removing the pilot’s body from the wreckage of the cockpit, it was possible to advance to the fighter’s engine and find the main nameplate with engine number AM-35A series 4 No. 9ЕА041370, the degree of reduction 0902.