Galkin Mikhail Biography

The tombstone of the monument Galkin Mikhail Petrovich is the commander of the 4th fighter aviation regiment of the mixed aviation division of the 9th Army of the Southern Front, lieutenant. Born on February 12 at the mine Kochkar, now - as part of the city of the plast of the Chelyabinsk region, in the family of a worker. At four, he was a round orphan, and was brought up by a distant relative.

In the year he graduated from the school of the 1st stage. In the same year, he began his career at a gold mine. He worked as a student with a locksmith, a locksmith in a mechanical workshop. In years he studied at a rabfak. A flight school was sent to the Komsomol ticket. In the year he graduated from the Voroshilovgrad military aviation school of pilots. The service was held as part of the 4th fighter aviation regiment in Belarus.

He participated in a liberation campaign in Western Belarus in the year, in the war with Finland. In December, the regiment was transferred from the composition of the Air Force of the 8th Army, based at the Suoyarvi airfield. In January-February of the year, as part of the regiment, Lieutenant Galkin participated in combat sorties for covering troops, for assault and bombing of Finnish positions.

He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. After the fighting, the regiment would be relocated south to the Odessa military district. Here, on June 22, he joined the battle with the invaders. As part of the mixed rifle division. In these battles, Lieutenant Galkin, commander of the link, entered the battle with the invaders. Lieutenant Galkin flew on fighters and by August of the year, took 58 sorties, participated in 18 air battles, in which he shot down 5 enemy aircraft: 2 Ju bombers, 2 PZL scouts were presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

In early August, on the Crimean Isthmus in one of the air battles was seriously wounded. After the hospital, in January of the year he was sent to the city of Novosibirsk, to instructor work. Here I learned about the assignment of a high rank. In June, the fragments remained in the neck and hand, and he achieved the sending to the front. The Yak fought with the composition of the Aviation Regiment on the Volkhov Front.

Shot down three more aircraft aircraft. Only on October 1 did the infantrymen discovered in the forest the Yak-7 bullets and the remains of the pilot-senior lieutenant Mikhail Petrovich Galkin. He was buried in a military cemetery in the village of Budogoshch, Kirishsky district of the Leningrad region. He was awarded the orders of Lenin by the name of the hero named Street in his hometown and secondary school.

In the city of Plast and the village of Budogosh, busts are installed.