very interesting historical figure is Alexander Novikov - Marshal of the USSR.He was born in the village of Kryukovo (Kostroma region) in 1900.In 1919, he joined the Red Army and took part in the civil war.Since 1920 is a member of the RCP (B).In the same year he graduated from the infantry training, and in 1922 - courses "Shot".He commanded units from platoon to battalion.In 1930 Novikov Alexander graduated from the Military Academy.After that he was sent to staff work in the Rifle Corps.
During the Soviet-Finnish conflict future Marshal Novikov was in the North-Western Front, where he headed the headquarters of the Air Force.In 1940, Alexander was appointed to the post of Force Commander of the Leningrad IN, and in 1941 he received the rank of Major General Aviation.During WWII Novikov led the first Air Force North, and then aviation Leningrad fronts.In April 1942 he was appointed commander of the Air Force of the Soviet Army.In the 1942-1943-th parallel was the Deputy Commissar of Defense.Novikov was the first in the Soviet Union was given the rank of Air Marshal.
As the representative rate Alexander repeatedly coordinated the hostilities Air Force several fronts - in the offensive at Stalingrad during the Battle of Kursk, in the offensive operations in the North Caucasus, Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic States, in Germany and during the fightingwith the Kwantung Army.In 1944, he became Chief Marshal.This title appeared for the first time in the USSR.
Marshal Novikov presided air blockade surrounded Paulus and the defeat of German aircraft in air battles in the Kuban.He participated in the translation of the Soviet Air Force in the same type of connection (fighter, attack, bomber) and the creation of a new organizational structure (the Air, Army Air).After the war, Marshal Novikov has worked in various command positions in the Air Force.In 1946 he became a deputy of the Supreme Council.
At the Potsdam Conference was a meeting of Stalin with his son Vasily, who was a military pilot.He told the leader that the American planes much better home.Stalin ordered an investigation.The head of the MGB Abakumov decided to "cave in" and began a campaign against the pilots.In March 1946, Marshal Novikov was arrested along with the People's Commissar of Aviation Industry Shakhurin and several other officials.
Investigators from Alexander Alexandrovich demanded recognition in criminal activities, otherwise promised to shoot the whole family.After a whole week of night interrogations Marshal Novikov has already signed a typewritten document addressed to Stalin with compromising on Zhukov and Malenkov.Here, however, the investigators made a mistake.The "confession", which was signed by Marshal Novikov, was a list of persons known to him unknown.Abakumov, as if nothing had happened, the investigator Likhachev made a remark: "There are, like, gone too far ...".According to the memoirs Novikova, he was given some kind of a cigarette, after which the Marshal finally lost his sense of reality.By her action, he signed a one page document retouched.
believed that the need of the MGB were knocked out "confession" of Marshal and the others arrested aviators to use them against GKZhukov.Alexander was sentenced to a substantial term, which is served in one of the institutions of the Gulag.It was rehabilitated after Stalin's death in 1953 and was appointed commander of ADD (AFLRO).In 1956, Marshal Novikov retired.He lived in Moscow and published his memoirs.Alexander died in 1976.
