Twice Hero of the Union Ivan Semenovich Polbin - pilot, participant of the Great Patriotic War. Much has been written about him, but there are some facts that are little known to the general public.
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Step 1
Ivan Polbin was born on February 11, 1905 in the Simbirsk province into a peasant family. Even in pre-revolutionary times, he graduated from a rural three-year school and always dreamed of continuing his education. However, ordinary peasant children only dreamed about it. Moreover, Ivan's father died early and he, the eldest son in the family, had to take care of the family with his mother. It was very difficult during these years: as a teenager, he was forced to go to work on the railway, to the Vyry station of the Ulyanovsk region, where his father often worked before.
Step 2
In the fall of 1922, Polbin entered a boarding school opened at the Karlinskaya secondary school. And already there his main character trait manifested itself - an irrepressible desire to study, to education and social work. Polbin was also one of those who organized military and sports training at the school.
Step 3
Childhood Ivan Semenovich was fond of weightlifting. But instead of a barbell, he trained with 2 pounds of kettlebells. The pilot's military comrades said that Polbin did not part with the kettlebells and even took him on the plane and at the first opportunity he trained on these sports equipment. Moreover, in the headquarters at the entrance to General Polbin's office there was a 2-pound weight, and each pilot who passed to him had to lift this weight several times, which was reported to him. And if the amount of lifting weights was decent, he said to the newcomer: "Well done, the plane's steering wheel will be in strong hands."
Step 4
It is known that the question of who to be often worries children even at school. Ivan Polbin seriously said that he would definitely become a military pilot. Classmates thought that Vanya was joking. But soon the boy became seriously interested in aviation. Ivan told his friends about the military pilots who proved to be heroes in the first imperialist war, about the domestic aircraft "Russian Knight", "Ilya Muromets". He read a lot about aviation, about its history and could talk for hours about this topic.
Step 5
It is hard to imagine, but Ivan Semenovich could not have become a heroic pilot. The fact is that for the first time the medical commission on the call to the Red Army did not let him go to the flight school "for health reasons." The chief physician of the commission found a serious injury to his left arm. The fact is that in childhood Ivan Semenovich learned to reap rye with a sickle early and cut the little finger on his left hand very hard. The tendon was obviously cut and the finger bent. His friend Mikhail Tupitsyn recalled how Polbin told him this during a walk, and stopping, “looking somewhere beyond the Volga, said:“It's not true, I will still be a pilot, without aviation I will not have a life. And you will see, Misha, I will still achieve my goal and prove to this Aesculapius that I will be an aviator. " And already in 1929 Ivan Semenovich announced that the question of his training at the aviation school in Volsk had been resolved positively.
Step 6
Before the war, Ivan Semenovich wrote about himself that he worked as a farmer and hut. Few people know, but Polbin really worked in charge of the hut-reading room.
Step 7
During the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Ivan Semenovich Polbin went from major to major general, commander of the 2nd Guards Air Corps. The military pilot showed genuine courage and heroism, more than once he risked his life. It was he who introduced the Polbinsk "turntable" into combat tactics - a special dive of an aircraft, which was widely used in battles with fascist troops.
Step 8
From the war, Ivan Semyonovich's wife and three children: two daughters and a son did not wait. In April 1945 Polbin was posthumously awarded the second Gold Star medal. Ivan Semenovich was and remains a legendary pilot who made a great contribution to the victory over the enemy. He is one of 35 soldiers who were awarded the title of Twice Hero of the USSR. In the front-line press of the wartime of the Great Patriotic War, headlines appeared: "To beat the enemy the way Polbin's pilots beat him."
