Andre Jacques (12/25/1919 – 04/02/1988) – Frenchman, a fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, PhD student (second lieutenant).
He was flight commander of the regiment "Normandy-Neman". He flew 113 combat sorties, shot down 16 enemy aircraft.
After the war he returned to his homeland. He served in the military aviation (Colonel).
Sukhoi Pavel Osipovich (10 (22) .07.1895 – 15.09.1975), Soviet aircraft, twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1957, 1965), Ph.D. (1940), Chief Designer (1956). At the end of the Moscow Higher Technical School (1925) worked as a design engineer in the Central Aerohydrodynamical Institute. H. Zhukovsky. Dry, under the leadership of H. Tupolev-designed fighter jets and 4 (1926 – 1927) and I-14 (1932 – 1934). Design aircraft taxiway (ANT-25) and "Motherland" (ANT-37). Dry – a participant of the competition of the draft "Ivanov" (1937 – 1939), ending the creation of multi-purpose combat aircraft Su-2. In 1939 Sukhoi – the main designer experienced in size. In 1942 – 1943 created an armored attack aircraft Su-6. Dry – one of the founders of jet and supersonic aircraft. They are designed jets Su-9, Su-15 and others with turbojet engines, supersonic fighter aircraft with swept delta wing. On the plane T-431 and T-405 Sukhoi design with 2 world records for altitude (1959, 1962) and 2 world records for flight speed along a closed route (1960, 1962). Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 5 – 8-th convocations. Two USSR State Prize, the Lenin Prize. He was awarded three Orders of Lenin, four other orders, as well as medals.
Belianska Alexander (1906 – 1981) – Soviet political and economic leader, Major-General Engineering Air Service (1944). Over the years, worked at the Voronezh, Moscow № 30, № 18 Kuibyshev Aviation Plant, which organized the production Il-2. In the years 1946-1958. was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In the years 1955-1972. held various leadership positions.
Zudov Vyacheslav D. (1942). Astronaut. Colonel. Born in 1942 in the city of Gorky Bor area. When Slava was three months old, his father Dmitri V. went to the front, and his mother Anna moved in with relatives in a village near Alferevo shaky. Glory of six year old boy was taken to the city of Elektrostal, Moscow region.
In 1959, Vyacheslav graduated from high school and passed the exams in Balashov top flight school. In 1963, after the aviation school he served in the military transport aircraft and flown 1200 hours.
Khrunov Yevgeny (10.09.1933 – 19.05.2000) was born September 10, 1933 in the village ponds Volovské district, Tula region in a large peasant family. Besides him, Vasily Zhukovsky and Agrafena Nikolaevna Khrunov had two daughters and five sons. Childhood Eugene, like all children of that time, were in the war years. More than once had occasion to witness his brutal air battles between Soviet and German pilots that unfolded in the skies above the village.
According to his relatives, it was then that he was born, and the desire to become a pilot. Over the years, that desire is not only not disappeared, but strengthened. Were not easy and the postwar years, especially after his father died. Mother alone had to raise the large family. After seven years of schooling, Eugene entered the agricultural college in the city of Kashira (Tula Region), who graduated in 1952. In the same year he joined the Soviet army and sent to study in a military aviation school. The following year he applied and was accepted into Bataisk Military Aviation School.
Vasilyev, Boris Nikolayevich (05/12/1941) – navigator, Air Force Major General. In the years 1963-1970. served in the Northern Group (Poland) in 1970-1983 – the Belarusian IN. In 1983-1985. Chief of Staff of the division in the Central group of troops (Czechoslovakia). In the years 1986-1985.