Biography of Talalikhin Victor

In the city, as a child, Viktor Talalikhin and his brothers were carried away by aircraft modeling. They arranged a small workshop in the house and constructed models of aircraft and gliders.

Father began to work at the Moscow meat processing plant, and the summer Victor entered the school of factory apprenticeship of the FZU at the plant. After graduating from Viktor Talalikhin, he was drafted into the army and was admitted to the Borisoglebsk Aviation School on the ticket of the Komsomol, he successfully graduated from the younger lieutenant.

Talalikhin received the first military baptism in the winter. He made about 50 sorties, destroyed several enemy aircraft, in an air battle saved the life of the squadron commander Mikhail Korolev. For valor and courage, Junior Lieutenant Talalikhin was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In the spring of the year, the young pilot graduated with honors from short -term courses of the link commanders and received the appointment of a fighter aviation regiment that was newly formed near Moscow.

After the start of World War II, the regiment was relocated closer to Moscow - he was instructed to protect air approaches to the capital, its industrial facilities, the life and safety of Muscovites. Protecting the sky of Moscow, Talalikhin destroyed six enemy aircraft in air battles. He became a real ace and was appointed deputy commander of the 1st squadron of the fighter regiment. Subordinates to their commander treated with great respect, since before each departure Talalikhin calculated unforeseen situations so that all the pilots of the squadron would return alive from combat missions.

On the night of August 6 to 7, when ammunition ended, at an altitude of meters by plane, "and" a fighter pilot rammed the German Haminkel bomber, in which there was a crew of 4 people. Talalikhin miraculously survived. He jumped out of a falling plane, ms flew in a free fall, only then the parachute opened. Air ram was not provided for by the military charter. The commander had no right to order a ram.

Battle pilots deliberately risked their lives. In total, during the war years, Soviet pilots committed more ramers. Talalikhin flew at the head of the six fighters to cover the ground forces in the Podolsk area. Near the village of Kamenka, he led the group to storm the enemy’s positions. At this time, six enemy Messerschmitt fighters collapsed due to clouds on Soviet aircraft. Air battle ensued.

Talalikhin attacked the first and shot down one Messer, but was attacked by three enemy fighters. Conducting an unequal battle, he knocked out another enemy, but at that time an enemy shell exploded nearby. The pilot was mortally wounded by the head. Victor Talalikhin was buried with military honors at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. By order of the People’s Commissar of Defense of the USSR of August 30, Talalikhin was forever enrolled in the lists of the 1st squadron of the fighter aviation regiment, which was part of which he fought near Moscow.

The Museum of the hero pilot is organized here. In the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow, the fuselage of the German Haminkel aircraft shot down by Talalikhin was installed. Nearby in the window there are personal items, photos and documents of Viktor Talalikhin. In the village of Kuznechiki, on a mim of the Warsaw highway, near the village of Kamenka, a bronze monument was erected by the Hero of the Soviet Union Viktor Talalikhin.