Background
Boris Ivanovich Yumashev was born on February 29, 1932.
Boris Ivanovich Yumashev was born on February 29, 1932.
Boris Ivanovich Yumashev performed his first exploratory flight on the PO-2 airplane, being a student of the First Special Air Force School, in 1949 with the famous pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union A. P. Maresiev. After school, he graduated with honors from the Engels aviation school of pilots named after M. Raskova (1954) and was sent to the Leningrad military district.
From 1954 to 1957 Boris Ivanovich served as senior pilot, commander of the unit in 1103 Baltic Fleet of the Leningrad Region. In 1957 he joined the ranks of the CPSU.
In the same year, in the rank of aviation captain, Boris Yumashev was recalled to the school of test pilots of the Flight Research Institute named after M. Gromov, graduated in 1959 with honors, and was sent to the OKB of the general designer V. M. Myasishchev.
In 1961, B.I. Yumashev entered the Moscow Aviation Institute named after S. Ordzhonikidze, graduated in 1966, receiving a degree in mechanical engineering.
In 1965, Boris Ivanovich wrote a letter to Academician S.P. Korolev with a request for his transfer to a group of astronauts. SPKorolev gave a command about enrollment, and Boris Ivanovich began to prepare. After the death of the academician, the situation changed: there was no guarantee of flying into space for a new member of the detachment of cosmonauts, and Boris Ivanovich continued to work as a test pilot.
During the period of work, Boris Ivanovich flew, tested and mastered 126 types of aircraft, including fighter aircraft, interceptor fighter aircraft, bombers, passenger and transport aircraft, their modifications, and helicopters. He carried out a complex of complex research works and flight tests of new aviation equipment at the maximum flight regimes.
Boris Ivanovich worked as a pilot in the Dobrolyt Airline from 1991 to 1997, flying on the IL-76 aircraft of the UN mission and the International Red Cross to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to countries that are suffering Disasters and areas of military operations. From 1997 he was an inspector for aviation safety of flights, as well as an assistant to a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
Yumashev Ivan Sergeevich was a member of the CPSU (b) since February 1917, a participant in the October Revolution, a commissar, a participant in the Civil, Finland and Great Patriotic Wars.
Yumasheva Maria Ipatovna was an amazing, highly educated, selfless woman who brought up three sons and helped them to stand up in their lives.
Egorov Ipat Ivanovich was a member of the CPSU (b) since 1903, a member of barricade battles in Krasnaya Presnya, wounded, lost his leg.
Before the October Revolution held a laundry, where underground literature was published revolutionary.
Yumashev Vladimir Ivanovich was killed in 1957.
Yumashev Yuri Ivanovich was killed during the tests in 1977.
