The Krasnoyarsk Regional Branch of the Russian Geographical Society organized an interregional expeditionary trip to the areas where military aircraft crashed during the Great Patriotic War. The participants of the expedition will visit several places where the crews of the Red Army winged vehicles were killed near the city of Chernogorsk, as well as near the capital of Khakassia, Abakan.
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Within the framework of the project, it is planned to study the crash sites. The participants of the expedition will install commemorative plaques there and hold ceremonies of giving military honors.
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In 1942-1945, the Birma Military Aviation School of Pilots, evacuated from the Far East, was based in Chernogorsk. It had trained 1,215 fighter pilots for the front. Six graduates of the school became Heroes of the Soviet Union, and former pilot-instructor Konstantin Evstigneev received this title twice. During the war years, 27 cadets and instructors of the aviation school were killed in training flights.
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“Our interregional interdepartmental expedition to Khakassia continues a whole series of search expeditions of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Branch of the Russian Geographical Society, organized in 2022 and 2023. It is held jointly with the representatives of the military unit 51966 of the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the railway detachment stationed in the city of Abakan, the Investigative Committee of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Republic of Khakassia, the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Republic of Khakassia, the Youth Club of the RGS "Zvezda Spaseniya" (eng. “Salvation Star”) created at the Siberian Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. The event is supported by SUEK, the Executive Directorate of the Russian Geographical Society, and the Central Military District of the Ministry of Defense of Russia. In our work we use very important and very necessary unique data from Krasnoyarsk search specialists and historians, members of the Russian Geographical Society Vyacheslav Filippov and Alexander Matveev," said Galina Idiatullina, executive director of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Branch of the Russian Geographical Society.