Biography of Peter Nesterov

Zholkva Lviv region Born in the family of an officer-educator of the cadet corps N. received an education in the Nizhny Novgorod Cadet Corps. In the city he served in Vladivostok, where he personally developed the rules for adjusting the shooting from the balloon. In August, Zhukovsky - P. Sokolov and soon became a member of the Nizhny Novgorod Aeronage Society.

Then he built his first glider and took a flight on it. He was transferred his first independent outfit on the plane on September 12, as part of the aviation detachment, he was transferred from St. Petersburg to Warsaw, where in November in May, he was engaged in the preparation of military pilots, organized and carried out three aircraft along the route Kyiv - Owst - Kozelets - Nezhin - Kyiv.

He tested a number of aircraft of Russian designers, worked on the problems of increasing the stability of aircraft and flight safety. Theoretically substantiated the opportunity and practically carried out a flight with the roll, thereby laying the foundations of the highest aerobatics. He expressed a number of ideas on the organization of the interaction of aviation with the ground forces.

He conducted experiments to improve the adjustment of artillery fire from aircraft. The first in the world was calculated on August 27 on September 9 in February G. for training in a range in March in March at the beginning of the First World War, his air squad entered the 3rd Army of the South-Western Front. The pilots of the detachment conducted air intelligence, ensured the connection of headquarters with the troops, participated in air battles.

In the battles for Lviv, Nesterov performed one of the first bombing in Russia adapted for this by artillery shells. Bombing was carried out so effectively that the Austrian command promised a large monetary award to the one who will drive the pilot’s airplane. He died in an air battle in the area of ​​the village of Zholkva near Lviv when using the world's first air ram, as a result of which he shot down a double Austrian reconnaissance aircraft.

The poster "The feat of Nesterov." The National Museum of the History of Ukraine was buried in Kyiv on the Askoldova grave with military honors. The grave of P. Nesterov at the Lukyanovsky cemetery in Kyiv in the city Zholkva from in the city of Nesterov built a monument. Later, in the city of the International Aviation Federation, it established a passing prize for the winner of the world championship in the Higher pilot - the Cup named after By decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was awarded the orders: St.

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