Background
Sergey Prokofievich was born on December 12, 1909, in Postoyaly farmstead Ostrogozhsky Uyezd, in workers family.
In the village of Postoyalovka, Olkhovatsky district was erected a bronze bust (1953), a street was named after him. In Olkhovatka there is a memorial plaque.
Sergey Prokofievich was born on December 12, 1909, in Postoyaly farmstead Ostrogozhsky Uyezd, in workers family.
He graduated from the courses for the improvement of commanders at the Academy of the General Staff.
Member of the Civil War in Spain in 1936-1939, fighting with Japanese troops on the Khalkhin-Gol River in 1939, the Winter War of 1939-1940 and the Great Patriotic War.
Since April 1937, the commander of the fighter regiment, the air brigade, the commander of the 2nd Special Army. Head of the Air Force of the 7th Army, skilfully guided the units entrusted to him during the breakthrough of the Mannerheim Line. Since August 1941, the сommanding officer of the Kachinsky Military Aviation Pilots School, since February 1943 commander of the fighter aviation division, since February 1944 in the General Staff of the Air Force.
Retired since 1947. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1937-1941).