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Creteil Stepan

( Hero of the Soviet Union)

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Biography Creteil Stepan
(25. 12. 1919 - 19. 1. 1975)

By retov Stepan - Captain Squadron 24 th Guards Aviation Regiment (50 th Air Division, 6 th Air Corps Long-Range Aviation). Born December 25, 1919 in the village of Malaya Nike Minusinskogo district of the Krasnoyarsk Krai in a peasant family. Russian. Member of the CPSU since 1943. Childhood and adolescence spent in the city Minusinsk. Graduated from high school. Studied at Kansko agricultural college, graduated from the Flying Club. In the Soviet Army from 1939. Graduated Balashov military aviation school in 1940. He served in line units the Air Force.

Member of the Great Patriotic War from June 1941. In his role as commander of the Air Squadron 24-Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment (Aviation-range) to the beginning of 1944 made 336 sorties, . his crew to destroy enemy airfields 60 and shot down 10 planes in the air enemy.,

. W tion of the Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and medal "Gold Star" Captain Kretova Stepan Ivanovich was awarded March 13, 1944.

. Eight times he had to leave the cockpit bomber with a parachute
. One day after successful completion of the job goes down the left engine. More than 800 kilometers carried on a single engine airplane and reached out to his airfield. After the raid on an airfield near the town of Sarai Nazis lost 26 planes on the ground. In December 1944, was mandated to disable heavily guarded Nazi Kerch port. The task was successfully accomplished, but on the way back, the crew had to be thrown by parachute over the sea a mile from the shore. Altogether during the war has made 400 sorties. Successfully bombed the enemy troops and facilities in the fighting in the Caucasus, Ukraine, in Koenigsberg, in Poland, Romania, Hungary and Germany.

In the Torah medal "Gold Star" Major Kretov SI. awarded on Feb. 23, 1948.

Fter the war was in command and staff positions in the Air Force. In 1950 he graduated from the Higher officers' tactical flight school in 1958 - Air Force Academy. In the Strategic Missile Forces from July 1961: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Rostov VKIU (July 1961 - November 1973). Since December 1973 - Senior Lecturer of the Military Academy named F.E. Dzerzhinsky. Since 1974, Colonel Kretov SI. Б?  retired.

F ill in Moscow. Died Jan. 19, 1975. He is buried in Moscow on Vvedenskoye Cemetery. A bronze bust of the hero is set in the city of Krasnoyarsk Minusinsk. He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, two of the Red Banner, two of the Red Star and medals.


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Sources:
1) Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary. V.1. M.: Voeniz.1987.
2) Kuznetsov VK. Fiery sunsets. M., 1985


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