Background
Ivan Fedotovich Vasin was born in June 12, 1929 on the Volga, near the city of Khvalynsk, Saratov region, in a peasant family.
Ivan Fedotovich Vasin was born in June 12, 1929 on the Volga, near the city of Khvalynsk, Saratov region, in a peasant family.
After school, Ivan entered the Khvalyn Pedagogical School, after graduating he worked as a village teacher. The dream of the sky led him to the Krasnokutsk Civil Aviation Academy. After graduating from the school in 1950, Vasin remained at works as an instructor pilot on a Po-2 plane, and then transferred to the Saratov united air squadron.
In 1958, Ivan Fedotovich enrolled without exams for the command faculty of the Higher Aviation School in Leningrad. There he passed through retraining for the Tu-104 flights, thereby becoming one of the pioneers of the jet aircraft development technology.
The next work of Ivan Fedotovich was connected with transport aviation in the Saratov detachment. He had to fly on Li-2, Il-12, Il-14. He was the commander of the ship, an instructor in the Ulyanovsk School of Higher Flight Training.
After school graduation Ivan Fedotovich falls into the field of B.G. Yezersky vision, head of the Far Eastern Civil Aviation Administration, who offered the post of chief inspector in his administration. Ivan Fedotovich accepted the proposal. The scope of his duties as chief of inspection was the inspection of air companies, flight units, in the air - flying, piloting techniques. Have being worked for 2.5 years in the Far East, Ivan Fedotovich was appointed as the First Deputy Head of the Flight Service of the Krasnoyarsk civil Aviation Department. At the age of 36, he became a Deputy head of the department, in which there were more than 20 thousand employees.
In the spring of 1968 Vasin received an offer to go to work in Moscow. However, then he was enticed by Mark Ivanovich Shevelev to the first Office of Polar Aviation. Under the leadership of Vasin were conducted high-latitude expeditions, landing a variety of flight equipment on the ice.
In 1970, the the USSR Presidium decree of the Supreme Soviet, Ivan Fedotovich was awarded the title of Honored Pilot of the USSR. Over the next 2 years Ivan Fedotovich worked as the head of the Department of Flight Service of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. By that time, the Higher Aviation School in Leningrad had received the status of an academy, and in 1972, Vasin became its first boss. In the same year, Vasin developed a special course on flight safety, which included the study of the aircraft reliability, methods of prevention of accidents and data on their investigation, experience of foreign airlines etc. Course was designed for 300 hours of training. With a number of improvements, it exists in the academy today. For 8,5 years of Ivan Fedotovich's tenure in this post, the Academy which was built on a territory of 22 hectares, produced 8,000 specialists. In 1973, the head of the main university of the industry was awarded the Order of Lenin.
Ivan Fedotovich had a time to become attached to the academy and rejected several times the proposal of P.B. Bugayeva to returne to Moscow as Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation for the flight service. He will agree only in 1980. This is the responsible post Vasin held until 1988, including 7 years he had been working under the Bugaev. In 1988, at the age of 59, Vasin agreed to the proposal to work as a USSR representative in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). In ICAO Vasin worked for 5 years: 3 and a half years as a representative of the USSR, and after the collapse of the Union - a year and a half as a representative of the Russian Federation.
Ivan Fedotovich returned to Russia in 1993. He decided to work for the industry and for himself: for 4 years he was the head of the joint Russian-Canadian enterprise "Aeroimp" as a general director.
At 69 he retired - but had no rest.