Background
Mikhail Anisimovich Yuyukin was born on August 10, 1911 in Gnilusha, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation.
Mikhail Anisimovich Yuyukin was born on August 10, 1911 in Gnilusha, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation.
Mikhail Anisimovich studied at a school in the village of Gnilusha, graduated from the Stalingrad Military Aviation School.
Mikhail Anisimovich Yuyukin was a member of the military conflict with Japanese troops on the Khalkhin-Gol River in 1939. During the bombing of enemy troops, Yuyukin's plane was hit and caught fire. Having ordered the crew to leave the plane, Mikhail Anisimovich pointed it at a cluster of enemy troops. This was the first case of a "fire ram" in the Red Army. The navigator of the aircraft was Captain Nikolai Frantsevich Gastello, who repeated the feat of his commander in June 1941. According to some sources, Mikhail Anisimovich came to the village of Gnilusha in 1939 or 1940. He was a commander of a group of Soviet troops in Mongolia. Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov presented Mikhail Anisimovich with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously), which was rejected.
