Maresyev is my countryman презентация

Alexey Petrovich Maresyev was born the seventh of may 1916 in the small town of Kamyshin in the Russian Empire. His father's name was Peter avdeevich Maresyev-he died when Alexei was only three years old. His mother's name was Catherine Nikitichna-she had to raise three sons alone. Money in the family is usually not enough, so they lived modestly. Katherin Nikitichna worked at the woodworking plant as a cleaner.

In seven years Maresyev went to secondary school in his native town. After her graduation, he entered the school, where he studied at the metal lathe and went to work at the same plant, where his mother worked. Twice served documents to flight school, but they were returned as Alexey in the childhood transferred a very heavy form of malaria which worsened his health.

The Yak-1 was accepted into service of the Soviet Union in 1940. For four years of production was built almost 9 thousand copies of the fighter and developed several modifications. The pilots loved this fighter. He beat the enemy from the first days of the second world war. The plane was distinguished by low maintenance, easy operation and high performance characteristics, due to which he was opposed by German fighters.
(Yak-1 aircraft, which flew Maresyev before the injury)

In 1937 he was called to the red army. Initially, he served in in the twelfth evaporated Pacific border district on the island of Sakhalin, then was sent to the Bataisk aviation school, which he finished in nineteen fourteen, having received the rank of Junior Lieutenant. There and learned about the beginning of the war.

In the summer of 1941 he was sent to a military-destroyers regiment. For the first time Maresyev's plane flew into battle in August 1941 in Ukraine, in the district of Krivoy Rog. In March 1942, Maresiev was transferred to the North-Western Front. By this time, on the account of the pilot of the 580-th Fighter Aviation Regiment were shot down 4 German aircraft. During the fighting pilot maresiev heroically fought and joined in battle with the enemy, displaying boundless bravery.

In early April 1942, an enemy fighter shot down the Maresyev's plane. By being conscious but badly injured, the pilot was forced to emergency land it. Alexei starved, suffered from cold and wild pain - gangrene started. Dragging his frozen legs, he kept moving to the East. When the strength was almost gone, Maresyev rolled from the back to his stomach, then back again.. Eating bark of trees, plants, berries and cones, the wounded pilot crawled, bleeding, 18 days reached the front line.

In the hospital Alexei Petrovich Maresiev was amputated just below the knees, both legs because gangrene had already begun.” One day came the Professor, brought me to the operating room, he took sterile scissors and just in front of my eyes cut off my legs. In some places, where there were still a bit of living tissue, it hurt, but it didn't hurt at all. After the surgery, I woke up with tears. My legs were very sore.”( from Maresyev's Memoirs) .This meant the end of the pilot's career! He convinced himself and the doctors that he could fly and fight and decided to return to the fighter aviation at the expense of persistent trainings.

In Moscow region Maresуev mastered his first prosthesis, which for him were made according to the type developed by Pirogov (Russian surgeon and scientist) for the soldiers of the tsarist army. Gradually, thanks to persistent training Alexeу Petrovich well master this leather construction of prostheses. Even in the hospital, Alexei began to make grueling exercises on prostheses. But through what efforts he had to pass, he knows, only he is!

But Maresiev was eager for battle and very worried after every refusal. Brothers flew to the front line, and he continued to train, honing his skills over the airfield. Soon the largest battle on the Kursk Bulge flared up and he received approval for taking part in hostilities from commander Alexander Numerov, who was accompanying his first flights. When Maresiev shot down a German fighter before his eyes,his trust grew at once.

On the Kursk Bulge in a bloody battle, Alexei Maresiev proved his right to the title of one of the best Soviet fighter pilots. After amputating his legs, he shot down another 7 enemy aircraft and saved the lives of two Soviet pilots in the fight against superior enemy forces. After the end of the battles on the Kursk Bulge, Maresiev was sent to the best air force sanatorium.

In the sanatorium he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The commander of the regiment, N. Ivanov, wrote that Alexei Maresiev, whose feat consisted in true patriotism, did not spare himself, his blood and life, fighting against the enemy, achieving excellent results in battle, despite his physical handicap. The glory of a legless pilot spread throughout the 15th Air Army and throughout the Bryansk Front.
(Maresiev in the sanatorium)

Military correspondents began to arrive in the air regiment. Among them was the future author of the book “The Story of a Real Man”, Boris Polevoy. This story was published after the war, three years after Maresyev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. This book has become a desktop for millions of people. After publication in the USSR in 1946 it was translated into almost all languages of the world. On it was filmed feature film, and the Bolshoi theater staged the eponymous Opera S. Prokofiev. In the artwork may not accommodate all to the biography on a real person. Alone aerial combat Maresyev could fill a book .