Temnov biography

The stele in Odessa Temnov Viktor Pakhomovich-the navigator of the squadron of the Guards of the Separate Separate Aviation Regiment of the 4th Air Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, the Captain Guard. Born on January 24 of the year in the village of Bogorodskoye, now the Dukhovnitsky district of the Saratov region, in the family of a peasant. He graduated from seven classes of incomplete secondary school and school of factory student students.

He worked as a locksmith in Leningrad. In the year he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. In the year he graduated from the Kharkov Military Aviation School. A participant in the liberation campaign of the Soviet troops in Western Ukraine and the Western Belarus of the year, the Soviet-Finnish war. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since June.

Temnova had to scout enemy troops in the areas of Kovel, Dubno, Lutsk. The task was perfectly completed. On the way from Kovel to Sarnah, the crew found a column of tanks and vehicles numbers to units, along the road from Lutsk on exactly in motion to cars and on the road from Dubno to the Podrov to the cars. These data were communicated to the radiogram command. Immediately 5 groups of our bombers were raised into the air, who inflicted a powerful bomb hit on the enemy’s column.

Temnov was wounded by fragments of an anti -aircraft artillery shell in the back and hand. The right motor was disabled on the plane and caught fire, but the brave crew did not turn off the combat course and masterfully bombed the accumulation of enemy tanks. On the reverse route, the enemy anti -aircraft artillery fired at a broken bomber a second time, as a result of which the second engine was damaged and the crew was forced to put a burning car on the enemy.

Temnov, despite the injury and greater loss of blood, successfully led the crew to his territory. In the fall of the year, V. Temnov made in the Rostov direction a martial departure per day and each sorting was saturated with examples of courage and courage. Once it became known that the enemy in honor of the "brilliant victory" is going to spend a holiday in one of the squares of the city of Mariupol.

The regiment was set the task - to bombing the square at the time of the opening of the holiday. The group of bombers V. An experienced navigator at exactly the appointed time appeared above the target and very successfully bombing. As it became known later, the group destroyed only officers - 19 people. On the way to the target, 17 "Messerschmitts" attacked her.

In friendly fire, our pilots repelled the attacks of the Messerschmitts and perfectly completed the task. At the same time, they shot down three Messerschmitt, one of them was shot down by V. After a successful breakthrough by our troops of the Germans’s defense in the Lozov-Barvenkovsky direction, the enemy began to hastily throw reserves by rail from the south. The unloading of reserves took place at the Kramatorskaya station.

Darknov inflicted a bomb at this station. For greater accuracy, the blow was made from a height of meters. The group broke two railway trains with exact hits and destroyed nineteen tanks. The results of the bombing were confirmed by the higher command and agents. These days V. Temnov was especially famous for his daring departures by a single plane in bad weather for the bombing and assault on the enemy troops.

He stood out sharply among the navigator composition of the regiment with his perseverance, courage, cunning and ability to complete the task in any environment. Given this, the command in the summer of the year completely liberates V. Temnov from flights to bombing and instructs him to conduct intelligence. Once, during the period of the departure of our troops in the south, V.

Temnov was instructed to scout the Boguchar, Kantemirovka, Millerovo area. When approaching the target, the crew found that the enemy covers his motorcycle worshipers with reinforced fighter outfits. Without oxygen, the crew, not fearing oxygen starvation, decides - to gain height and perfectly performs the task by meters. In the battle for the Caucasus, the true calling of an air trace and photographer was completely determined.

Every day, improving the methods and methods of air intelligence, avoiding templates, carefully studying the enemy, V. Temnov became the best scout of the regiment. The intelligence he delivered, never needed work exploration. Once in the Mozdok direction, the situation was so that a connection with our tank connection was lost. The crews flew out for reconnaissance found the movement of tanks and motorcycles on the road to Mozdok, but could not determine their affiliation.

Then the commander sent to intelligence V. quickly discovering the column, the brave scouts decreased over it to a shaving flight and clearly saw not only by identification signs on the tanks, but also in the form of the clothes of the soldiers that they were fascists. Turning around, the crew was recovering the column and delivered the necessary information to the command. Conducting continuous air reconnaissance, V.

Temnov revealed the grouping and nomination of the Tank and Army Corps of the Germans in the Voroshilov-Pyatigorsk and Pyatigorsk-Mozdok directions.He discovered a nomination of units of the tank and infantry division of the Germans on Mozdok and further along the Terek River to the village of Ishchenskaya. According to these data, our aviation for six days inflicted powerful bomber attacks on the enemy, which largely slowed down the further advancement of the enemy and made it possible to regroup the units and the 9th Army and take the most important position for defense.

During the stabilization of the front on the Terek River, V. Temnov discovered the approach to the front line of the units of the tank division and the SS Viking division. At the end of November, the Germans removed the Viking tank division from the Mozdok direction and the SS Division and sent them to the aid of their surrounded group near Stalingrad.

This did not slip away from the keen eye of V. as a result of our command in a timely manner took measures to defeat the Kotelnikov group of the enemy, consisting of the units of the tank division and the SS Viking division. Temnov continuously conducted reconnaissance with photography of defense, communications of enemy airfields. In particular, they found the construction of the take-off strip and 57 enemy aircraft at the soldier's airfield.

Another time, having flown up for reconnaissance of the railway on the Prokhladniy - Georgievsk section, V. Temnov discovered a ash large warehouse with fuel at the railway station. Nine -point clouds made it difficult to aim, but V. Temnov, taking advantage of a slight glee in the clouds, masterfully dropped bombs and destroyed the warehouse. With the transition of our troops on the offensive, V.

Temnov systematically conducted reconnaissance of the exiting troops of the enemy. Temnov discovered Armavir - Krapotkin to the car to the vehicles on the site. On the reverse route, the crew bombed the column and stormed it until the complete expense of ammunition. Temnov discovered the movement to cars along the road from the village of Kushchevskaya to Bataysk. Having photographed the road, the crew bombed the Bataysk railway junction, where he caused a large focus of the fire.

In the spring of the year, V. Temnov discovered the Germans of aviation on airfields against the North Caucasus Front. These data helped our command to unravel the intake of the enemy, so the spring attack of the Germans in the Kuban was torn. In the summer of the year, V. Temnov took an active part in photographing the "blue line" of the Germans defense in the Kuban.

In one of the sorties, he had to take a picture of the front edge of the enemy’s defense on the Kiev-Moldovanskaya section under the cover of four Yak-1. To complete the assignment, it was necessary to produce three approaches. In the target area, four Messerschmitt aircraft tried to attack the photographer, but were intercepted by the coverage fighters. Then the German anti -aircraft gunners, seeing the helplessness of their fighters, opened strong fire on the scout, but the crew did not turn off the combat course and fully completed the task.

Temnov was attacked by four Messerschmitt aircraft. The crew courageously repelled the attack, but the numerical advantage of the enemy affected. The pilot and navigator were seriously injured, the radio operator shooter was killed. Having gathered the last forces, a pilot and navigator with a joint efforts led a damaged car on the same motor to their airfield and delivered valuable pictures.

After the expulsion of the Germans with Taman, V. Temnov systematically photographed the development of the Germans’s defense on the Kerch Peninsula, he completed a number of very responsible tasks to photograph the front edge of the enemy’s defense at the boundaries: the city committee, Kerch, Bulganak, Cape Takyl; From Cape Mom Russian to Cape Chroni and Defense on the Turkish Val and Ak-Monaisian positions.

The task was especially difficult, given that here the saturation of anti -aircraft artillery of the front edge among the Germans reached three batteries per kilometer of the front. A few days before the transition of the Red Army on the offensive, V. Temnov completely photographed the defense of the Germans on the Kerch Peninsula to a depth of 20 kilometers. His pictures greatly facilitated the breakthrough of enemy defense and the capture of the city of Kerch.

During the preparation of the summer offensive of the Red Army in Belarus, V. Temnov under the fierce shelling of the enemy anti -aircraft artillery completely photographed the Germans' defense along the Pronya River to a depth of 20 kilometers. For this robot, V. Temnov was grateful from the commander of the 2nd Belarusian Front, Colonel General G. When the enemy’s defense was broken, V.

Temnov systematically conducted the reconnaissance of the retreating troops of the enemy, railway units, and airfields. On the northwestern outskirts of the airfield of the field warehouse of ammunition. Temnov discovered 25 trains, to wagons and loaded platforms, on the streets of the city to cars.