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Vladimir Dmitrievich Lavrinenkov (Russian: Владимир Дмитриевич Лавриненков; 17 May 1919 – 14 January 1988) was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Forces who became a flying ace during the Second World War and was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for being one of the top flying aces in the Soviet Union.
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Vladimir Dmitrievich Lavrinenkov (Russian: Владимир Дмитриевич Лавриненков; 17 May 1919 – 14 January 1988) was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Forces who became a flying ace during the Second World War and was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for being one of the top flying aces in the Soviet Union.
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Early life Lavrinenkov was born on 17 May 1919 in the village of Ptakhino, at the time located within the Smolensky Uyezd of the Smolensk Governorate of the Russian SFSR before the formation of the Soviet Union. After completing his seventh year of secondary education on Peresna he attended a trade school in the city of Smolensk. Upon graduating from the trade school in 1935 he was employed at a local aircraft factory, and in 1939 he completed training at the Smolensk aeroclub before he entered the military in February 1940. After he graduated from the Chuguev Military Aviation School of Pilots in January the next year he served as a flight instructor at the Chernigov Military Aviation Pilot School, which had to evacuated to Zernograd in July due to the German invasion of the Soviet Union. In November, a regiment of the 102nd Fighter Aviation Division composed of the instructors from the school was formed for providing air cover in Stalingrad.
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World War II Lavrinenkov was first deployed in the war to Stalingrad as a pilot in the 651st Fighter Aviation Regiment. There he flew an I-15, on which he engaged in his first dogfight after attempted to attack an Heinkel He 111. After the incident his plane was left with only one landing wheel intact, but he still managed to safely land his plane. After retraining to fly the Yak-1 he was reassigned in June 1942 to the 753rd Fighter Aviation Regiment as a flight commander, and on 8 July he scored his first aerial victory when he shot down an Bf 109 during an intense counterattack. Later he and his wingman Pyotr Tilchenko dueled against a group of six Bf 110; Tilchenko was killed in action after shooting down two of them, but Lavrinenkov survived. In August he was transferred to the 4th Fighter Aviation Regiment. As a deputy squadron commander piloting the Yak-7B on the Stalingrad front, he quickly increased his victory tally, gaining nine aerial victories in a span of three months. In October, Lavrinenkov and many of his colleagues, including Amet-khan Sultan and Ivan Borisov, were assigned to the newly formed "regiment of aces", the 9th…
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Postwar After being relieved of command of the regiment in August, Lavrinenkov attended the M. V. Frunze Military Academy, which he graduated from in November 1948. In March 1949 he became the commander of the 2nd Guards Fighter Aviation Division, which flew the La-5, Yak-9, and P-40. He was transferred to command of the 142nd Fighter Aviation Division which used the La-7 and Supermarine Spitfire in February 1950. In July 1951 he became the superintendent of the Fighter Air Defense Training Center in Nizhny Novgorod. There his flew the Yak-17, La-15, and MiG-15. In November 1952 he left the center to attend the Military Academy of the General Staff, which he graduated from in 1954. After attending the academy he became the deputy commander of Kiev Fighter Aviation Defense Directorate, and in July 1955 he was promoted to commander. In November 1958 he became the commander of the Separate Baltic Air Defense Corps, and in April 1962 he became the senior deputy commander of the 8th Separate Air Defense Army. In February 1966 he was placed in command of the 2nd Separate Air Defense Army and was made deputy commander of the Belarusian Air Defense District; from August 1969 to…
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Memorials and dedications A sculpture-portrait in his likeness was made by Isaak Mendelevich shortly after the end of the war. A bronze bust of him made by sculptor Mikhail Olenin was installed in Pochinok in 1948.
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Awards and honors Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1 May 1943 and 1 July 1944) Two Order of Lenin (1 May 1943 and 21 February 1978) Order of the October Revolution (21 February 1974) Six Order of the Red Banner (31 July 1942, 23 October 1942, 10 July 1943, 1 August 1943, 20 April 1945, and 31 October 1967) Order of the Patriotic War 1st class (11 March 1985) Order of the Red Star (30 December 1956) Medal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st class (8 May 1947) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (17 February 1984)
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Bibliography Bobrov, Nikolai (1949). "Дорога героя". Ogonyok (in Russian) (29): 12–13. Mellinger, George (2012). Soviet Lend-Lease Fighter Aces of World War 2. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1782005865. Mellinger, George (2003). LaGG & Lavochkin aces of World War 2. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1841766097. OCLC 52921027. Khazanov, Dmitriy; Medved, Aleksander (2011). La-5/7 vs Fw 190: Eastern Front 1942–45. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84908-474-1. Simonov, Andrey; Bodrikhin, Nikolai (2017). Боевые лётчики — дважды и трижды Герои Советского Союза [Combat pilots — twice and thrice Heroes of the Soviet Union] (in Russian). Moscow: Russian Knights Foundation and Vadim Zadorozhny Museum of Technology. ISBN 9785990960510. OCLC 1005741956.