BERESNEV Paul Maksimovich

(2.VI.1913, d. Pokrovka Hislavichskogo Area - 20.V.1981, g. Vladikavkaz).
Since 1933. lived in Moscow. In the Red Army from 1936. He graduated from the Kachin Military Aviation Pilot School (1939), in 1940. - Refresher courses navigators for the Air Force, in 1945. Air Force Academy. On the Great Patriotic War from March 1942. Deputy Commander of Squadron 45 th Fighter Regiment, 216 th Composite Air Division of the North Caucasus Front. Lieutenant B. by May 1943. made 131 combat missions and personally shot down 10 and in Group 2 enemy planes. In the postwar years has held command positions. Since 1961. Lieutenant General Aviation B. Retired. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, 4 orders of the Red Banner, Order of the Patriotic War of degree 1, 3 Orders of Red Star and medals.

I.N. Belyaev