Biography of the coastal g

Beregovaya Georgy Timofeevich-commander of the air squadron of the Guards Assault Aviation Regiment, 4th Guards Air Aviation Division, 5th assault aviation corps, 5th Air Army, senior lieutenant guard; The pilot of the Soyuz-3 spacecraft, colonel. Born on April 15 in the village of Fedorovka, Karlovskaya volost of the Konstantinograd district of the Poltava province of the Lannovsky rural community of the Poltava district of the Poltava region, Ukraine.

Since the fall of the year, he lived in the city of Enakievo now Donetsk region, the DPR, where he graduated from 8 classes of the school in the year. He worked at the Enakievsky Metallurgical Plant. In the year he graduated from the Enakievsky aero club. In the army since December. In June, he graduated from the Voroshilovgrad military aviation school of pilots now the city of Lugansk, LPR.

From June 13 - pilot GO separate reconnaissance aviation regiment in the Western Special Military District; The city of Baranovichi of the Brest region, Belarus. By the time the G. Beregovoy arrived in the regiment, most aircraft were lost on the ground as a result of enemy raids, so he did not have a chance to participate in combat sorties. At the end of September, the regiment was disbanded.

In October - February - the pilot of the reserve aviation regiment in the Volga Military District; The city of Petrovsk, the Saratov region, from February - the pilot of the near -bombarding aviation regiment in the Volga Military District. He flew on aircraft Yak-4 and Pe-3, then retrained to the summer of the year, the near-bombarding aircraft regiment was reorganized to the STOM Aviation Aviation Regiment and sent to the front.

A participant in the Great Patriotic War: in June - November - the commander of the Assault Aviation Regiment, in November - December - the commander of the GO STROM Aviation Regiment. He fought on the Kalinin Front June-December participated in the Rzhevsk-Sychev operations. In December-March of the year, retraining was held in the 5th training air regiment of the Kalininsky front.

In July - May - deputy commander and commander of the Aviation Specialist GO since the May - GW Guards Assault Aviation Regiment. He fought on the Voronezh July-October, the 1st Ukrainian October-September and the 2nd Ukrainian September-May fronts. During one of the sorties, he was easily wounded by a bullet in the lower leg. Most of the sorties were made with a radio operator, a full cavalier of the Order of Glory M.

During the war, he made combat sorties on the IL-2 attack aircraft to apply bomb-strokes on the enemy’s manpower and technique. In November, he graduated from the Lipetsk Higher Officer Flight Tactical School. He continued to serve in the Air Force commander of the air squadron, navigator and head of the airborne rifle service of the Guards Assault Aviation Regiment in the Odessa Military District.

Il flew on the attack aircraft in March - July - the navigator of the Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment in the Odessa Military District. He flew on the fighter P “Kingkobra”. In July-August, he studied at the Monino Air Academy, transferred to the correspondence department, which he graduated from the year.

In August-January-a test pilot of the State Red Banner Scientific and test institute of the Air Force. He participated in state tests of many other combat aircraft. In the cosmonauts detachment from January to February. He made 1 space flight lasting 3 days 22 hours 51 minutes. Since February, he was trained according to the individual plan approved by N. Kamanin and designed for 10 months, this was an exception to the rules at that time.

In May-May, the year was trained as the commander of the duplicate crew of the Voskhod-3 spacecraft for flight on a military program lasting up to 20 days. The training program was successfully completed. But in May, the flight was canceled in connection with the closure of the Voskhod program. In December - May, he was trained as the commander of the Soyuz ship under the docking program in orbit, first as part of the reserve crew, and from June in the first crew.

The flight with the docking of two manned ships was postponed. Since August, he has been preparing for flight as the main pilot of the Soyuz-3 ship under the docking program with the Soyuz-2 unmanned ship. During the flight, multiple maneuvering of the spacecraft in orbit was carried out and its two-fold rapprochement with the unmanned spacecraft Soyuz-2, a number of technical experiments were carried out on the development of the Soyuz spacecraft and equipment, as well as observation in order to study the near-Earth cosmic space.

However, the coastal was not able to carry out a docking with Soyuz-2. Since April-Deputy Head, and in June-January-Head of the Center for the Training of Cosmonauts named after Yu. Since January the year-Lieutenant General of Aviation, Beregovo-retired. He lived in the village of Chkalovsky now within the city of Shchelkovo, from a year in the star town of the Shchelkovsky district of the Moscow region.

He died on June 30. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery.The Honored Player of the USSR was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin awarded to the gold medal named after K. Gagarin FAI, an honorary citizen of the cities of Kaluga Bronze Bust in Enakievo on the school building in which he studied, in the village of Chkalovsky and Star Town on the houses in which he lived, memorial boards were installed.

From the year, his name has a ferry of the “coastal” port of the postscript-the Volga-Caspian Astrakhan region. Notes: 1 awarded for the implementation of combat sorties on April 8; 2 For the first time in the history of awarding the second medal “Golden Star” twice, the Hero of the Soviet Union was simultaneously awarded and the Order of Lenin was officially approved after almost five years - by decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces of May 14.

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