Background
Mikhail was born on November 5, 1921, in the village of Novodevichye now Shigonsky district of the Samara region in a peasant family. Russian. He graduated after 10 classes. In the Navy since 1940.
Mikhail was born on November 5, 1921, in the village of Novodevichye now Shigonsky district of the Samara region in a peasant family. Russian. He graduated after 10 classes. In the Navy since 1940.
In 1943 he graduated from the Naval Aviation School.
In 1951 Senior Lieutenant Mikhail Sukhanov graduated from the Air Force Academy (Monino).
July 16, 1944, the crew Pe-2 – N.D. Kolesnikov, M.A. Sukhanov, I.F. Aleinikov – he participated in the sinking of the cruiser of the air defense "Niobe" (the former Dutch "Gelderland"). Since 1974, Colonel Mikhail Sukhanov - in stock.
