Cпециальная подготовительная школа ВВС в Краснодаре (1941–1955 гг.)

Abstract

At the beginning of the twentieth century a new means of armed struggle, military aviation, appeared. It was already used in the Balkan and Great Wars. This expensive means had the peculiarity of either flying or falling, requiring it to be exploited by especially trained people – pilots. In tsarist Russia, 15 educational institutions were organized to train pilots and observer pilots (navigators). By the end of the Civil War, the military aviation of Soviet Russia had a deplorable state, where the flight personnel training system was experiencing a crisis, there were seven educational institutions left in the RSFSR. The Soviet military leadership, assessing the military-political situation in the world and understanding the importance and effectiveness of aviation on the battlefield, set a course for the development of aircraft engineering and training of aviation personnel. By the beginning of World War II, there were 18 flight educational institutions. Even taking into account the training of young people in the OSAVIAKHIM (DOSSAF) flying clubs, there were not enough pilots for the armed forces and a decision was made to form 20 special schools of the Air Force, which made it possible to bring educational aviation institutions to 83 by the beginning of World War II. The authors, based on archival data, periodicals, memoirs of school graduates, introduce into circulation a historical matrix about education, its activities, information about graduates of the special school of the Air Force No. 12 in Krasnodar. The study is caused by the current military-political situation around our Motherland, a special military operation in Ukraine, the experience of mobilization measures to replenish highly trained human resources for the defense of the Fatherland and the goal of 12 special schools of the Air Force, the forgotten 80-year experience of the Soviet Union and the parting words of V.I. Lenin:... as long as there are capitalists in the world, we should be ready for war... (Complete works, 5 ed., Vol. 42). This topic has practically not been considered in the current situation. The material shown is based on the source base of the funds of the State Archive of the Krasnodar Territory, the periodical press and memoirs of graduates of the 12th Krasnodar Special School of the Air Force.