Education, History
Marshal Novikov: brief biography
A very interesting historical figure is Alexander Novikov - Marshal of Aviation of the USSR. He was born in the village of Kryukovo (Kostroma Region) in 1900. In 1919 he joined the Red Army and took part in the Civil War. Since 1920 he is a member of the RCP (b). In the same year he graduated from infantry courses, and in 1922 - courses "Shot". Commanded units from platoon to battalion. In 1930 Novikov Alexander Alexandrovich graduated from the Military Academy. After that, he was sent to the headquarters work in the rifle corps.
As a representative of the stake, Alexander Alexandrovich repeatedly coordinated the combat operations of the Air Force of several fronts - during the offensive near Stalingrad, during the Battle of Kursk, during offensive operations in the North Caucasus, Belorussia, Ukraine, the Baltics, Germany and during battles with the Kwantung Army. In 1944 he became the Chief Marshal of Aviation. This title in the USSR appeared for the first time.
At the Potsdam Conference , Stalin met with his son Vasily, who was a military pilot. He told the leader that American planes are much better than domestic ones. Stalin ordered an investigation. The head of the MGB, Abakumov, decided to "bend over" and started a company against the aviators. In March 1946 Marshal Novikov was arrested together with the People's Commissar of the aviation industry Shahurin and a number of other officials.
Investigators from Alexander Aleksandrovich demanded confession in criminal actions, or they promised to shoot the whole family. After a whole week of nocturnal interrogations, Marshal Novikov signed a typewritten document in the name of Stalin, with compromising evidence on Zhukov and Malenkov. However, the investigators made a mistake here. In "sincere recognition", which was signed by Marshal Novikov, there was a list of persons known to him unknown. Abakumov, as if nothing had happened, interrogator Likhachev made a remark: "Here, it seems, overdone ...". According to Novikov's memoirs, he was given a cigarette, after which the marshal finally lost his sense of reality. Under her action, he paged a signed document.
It is believed that the MGB needed the embossed "confessions" of the marshal and the other arrested aviators to use them against GK. Zhukov. Alexander Aleksandrovich was sentenced for a considerable period of time, who served in one of the institutions of the Gulag. He was rehabilitated after Stalin's death in 1953 and was appointed commander of the ADD (long - range aviation). In 1956, Marshal Novikov retired. He lived in Moscow and published his memoirs. Alexander Aleksandrovich died in 1976.
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