In June 1965, a pilot from the air defense regiment Valentin Privalov flew in a MiG-17 plane under the Communal bridge over the Ob River in Novosibirsk ...
Before that, he himself surveyed the distance between the bridge supports. Moreover, Chkalov made a similar flight on a propeller plane, not a jet ...
He was arrested for hooliganism in the air, but Malinovsky, the then Minister of Defense, ordered the pilot to fly
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The arrest followed immediately - the very next day. Debriefing and, to put it mildly, the separation were not long in coming. However, no one wanted to take upon themselves the final decision on the fate of the pilot. The then Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal R. Malinovsky, put an end to this matter. From him a telegram came to the unit: “Pilot Privalov should not be punished. Limit yourself to the activities that were carried out with him. If you have not been on vacation, send on vacation. If there was, give ten days of rest at the unit. " "Captain Valentin Privalov nicknamed" Jack ".
Valentin was born in the suburbs, his childhood fell in wartime. While still at school, he studied at the flying club. After college he served in naval aviation, in Kaliningrad and the Arctic, was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Later he was transferred to the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory.
In June 1965, as part of a flight of 4 MiGs, Privalov was seconded to the exercises held in the Siberian Military District - at the training ground near Yurga, anti-aircraft battalions conducted training firing. Returning from the mission to Tolmachevo, Valentin flew under the Communal bridge. (For reference: the size of the arch is approximately 30 by 120 meters, the wingspan of the MiG-17 is 9.6 meters).
Remembers Anatoly Maksimovich Ryb'yakov, retired aviation major:
“From the third turn, he came down and went under the bridge. The speed is somewhere around 400 km / h. It was a clear, sunny day. People on the beach swam, sunbathed, and suddenly there was a roar, and the plane soared upward with a candle, avoiding a collision with the railway bridge. It was clear that this could not be hidden. Air Marshal Savitsky flew in, and an investigation was launched. They asked Privalov what motives he had. He replied that he had written two reports on the shipment to Vietnam, but they remained unanswered. That is why I decided to fly under the bridge to be noticed. This act was evaluated in different ways. Young pilots are like heroism, the older generation is like air hooliganism. "
Meanwhile, there is a history of flights under bridges: "According to a widely circulated legend, Chkalov flew under the Troitsky Bridge in Leningrad. For the film" Valery Chkalov "this flight was repeated by pilot Yevgeny Borisenko!
Rumors about the flight under the bridge quickly spread throughout the country, and after Valery Pavlovich, during the armed conflict on the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER) in 1929, pilot E. Lukht, three times awarded the Order of the Red Banner, personal military weapon, gold watch and other insignia of those years, flew under the bridge over the Amur in Khabarovsk, followed by this seemingly useless and dangerous trick, repeated by the pilot of the same squadron A. Svyatogorov, as well as I.P. Mazuruk and M.V. Vodopyanov.
During the war years, a similar trick was performed by the pilot Rozhnov. Escaping pursuit in the sky, he flew under the railway bridge, saving the life of himself and the crew.
Guard Lieutenant Colonel Valentin Vasilyevich Privalov is a military pilot who made an incredible flight on June 4, 1965, on a MiG-17 into the target of the central arch of the Communal Bridge in Novosibirsk. A photo collage that illustrates the act of a sniper pilot is well known on the Internet. How he hit the target, we decided to ask Valentin Vasilyevich personally.
Valentin Privalov told his story from the very beginning. He was born in the village of Pyatnitsa, on the banks of the Istra reservoir, 60 km from Moscow. “When the war began,” says the pilot, “I was 6 years old. These terrible pictures still stand before our eyes, when the Soviet troops retreated, and then the Nazis occupied our villages. These were very harsh years.
And then one day two I-16s flew right over my head, one might say over the rooftops. And I hadn’t seen a steam locomotive before. So this was the beginning of my dream. "
“When I entered the 10th grade, I began to study at the 4th Moscow flying club. This, one might say, was preparation for my specialty, ”recalls Valentin Vasilyevich.
In 1953 he was sent to Ukraine, to the city of Sumy. Flight personnel were trained there. After completing his studies, Valentin entered the Armavir School. At the age of 20, Privalov was already a lieutenant of naval aviation in the Baltic. “These were years of very intense study. Many of our commanders went through the war and taught us in a military manner, they trained us very seriously, ”says the pilot.
In 1960, during the reorganization of the Armed Forces, Valentin Privalov was sent to Siberia. “First, to Semipalatinsk, where my daughter was born - Elena the Beautiful. Now she is an associate professor, candidate of mathematical sciences, and teaches at the Moscow University of Civil Aviation. After Semipalatinsk, I was assigned to Kansk.
My thoughts have always been - to fly and improve! And the more complicated the flight program, the more pleasant it is in my soul.
I arrived in Kansk as a captain, I was 25 years old. The main task of the 712th Guards Regiment, in which I served, was to protect the North. At that time there was no airfield either in Norilsk or in Khatanga. In order to carry out this protection, we had a reserve airfield - Podkamennaya Tunguska. In April 1965 and in March 1966, we worked out the technique of intercepting air targets, working from ice airfields on. Dixon and Khatangi. We were the pioneers in the development of the airfields of the air defense IA ”.
Valentin Vasilyevich worked a lot from the Novosibirsk airport Tolmachevo - he served anti-aircraft missile troops. In between flights, the pilots rested on the banks of the Ob, between the bridges - Kommunalny and Zheleznodorozhny. “The idea of flying under the bridge came to my mind for a long time, but I knew that if I did it, I would be removed from flight work,” Privalov shares his recollections. “Once, on a mission related to ZRV, I had a route: Tolmachevo - Barnaul - Kamen-na-Obi - Tolmachevo. Our four flew out at intervals of 30-40 minutes. We had to come to Tolmachevo with the same interval. Moreover, each had its own route. The flight was completely in the clouds, the weather was difficult.
When I was given the command to descend, I broke through the clouds and looked - this bridge. And that's all. I was no longer my own master. As if fate planted it on me.
The fact is that thanks to naval aviation, I understand what water is, what a sea is, a river. Maybe others cannot determine the distance to the water, but for me it is all clear. Meter to hold water, speed - 700, because this is the most aerobatic speed. With her, the rudders are very effective. And go ahead! The most interesting thing is that when you approach the bridge, it is logical to assume that the closer, the wider the space. And it was the other way around - this window narrowed and narrowed. But I didn't have any worries. I was very calm. This flight was not difficult for me. I was prepared. As soon as I felt that the bridge was behind - the handle towards myself and up into the clouds. "
Everything happened so quickly that Valentin Vasilyevich even thought: no one noticed the passage under the bridge and everything would go smoothly. He successfully blended into his time on the route, made a landing. Everything was calm. He understood that if someone found out, it would be the end of his flying career. “I’ll tell you without any modesty,” says Privalov, “Gorky had a 'born to crawl cannot fly,' but I was born to fly!”
The next morning, the four pilots arrived at the division headquarters. Everything was calm, as if no one had noticed anything. In fact, by that time, Colonel Trofimov was already heading the commission that was investigating the incident. After some time - a call. One of the pilots answered the phone: “Are you Kan pilots? You are under arrest. Surrender the weapons, seal the planes. " All four were arrested. Valentin Privalov recalls, the others immediately understood that he had done something. He says they scolded him: "We got so many thanks here, and you blurred the whole thing." And then they firmly took hold of our pilot. “First of all, I was invited to the first secretary of the regional committee Goryachev, - says the pilot. - This is such a sincere person! He listened to me and said: “I want you to have these qualities!” After me they took me to the Chkalov plant.
Aviation Marshal Yevgeny Yakovlevich Savitsky was just there. He, of course, scolded me well, they say, what kind of Chkalovism is this?
The marshal was accompanied by two commanders on a transport plane, and so they slowly told me that I could not worry, the issue, it seems, had already been resolved and I would be left to fly. He was also accompanied by the commander of the Siberian Military District, Colonel-General Ivanov - under two meters, a real Russian hero. He also protected me everywhere. I realized that he was ahead of the aviators and was the first to report to the Minister of Defense about my passage under the bridge. Well, when it was all over, I was told to take my parachute on the train and to Kansk. I arrived there and waited for my fate. I was not allowed to fly. A week later, a telegram arrived:
“Pilot Privalov should not be punished. Limit yourself to those activities that were carried out with him. If you have not been on vacation - send on vacation, if you have been - give 10 days of rest for the part “.
And the regiment commander was reprimanded, the head of the political department was reprimanded. It turned out funny, they seem to be to blame, but I remained free. Well, as for me, as a communist, I am severely reprimanded and put on a card. "
Valentin Vasilyevich notes that everyone tried to help him. The political workers who arrived from the division suggested sending Privalov to Armavir for a four-month course. The post of political officer of the squadron was introduced. “If you work, you will fly,” they said to Privalov. “So I did,” says the pilot. "After a while, I was appointed squadron commander."
Later, Valentin Privalov was appointed deputy regiment commander for flight training. He trained civilian pilots from DOSAAF to the level of the 2nd class.
In 1972 he graduated from the eight-month First Officer Courses for command personnel at the Center for Combat Use and Flight Personnel Retraining in the village of Savasleika. There he stayed to serve. He mastered all the Su-15 series, tested air-to-air missiles at extremely low altitudes, a laser landing system at night, and much more. In 1977, his son Yevgeny was born, a future candidate of economic sciences, head of department of one of the leading transport companies in Russia.
At 42, Valentin Privalov left for "civilian life" due to heart problems, giving up his position "on the ground." To serve is to fly.
Today Valentin Vasilievich is happy! “I have two wonderful children and three grandchildren,” he says. - Our whole family is Love! My fighting friend withstood all my ordeals. We have been with her for 57 years. Our feelings have survived to this day. "
An interesting fact was noted by the pilot himself: “After I quit my flight job, I was a military commander at school for a year and 8 months. And then I learned that a central civil aviation dispatch service was opening in Moscow. I worked there as a shift supervisor for the last 5 years on lettered flights, and was awarded the badge "Excellence in Air Transport". So it turns out that I have 44 years of military service, 25 years of civil aviation and a year and a half as a military commander. I have 71 years of work experience out of my 78, 5 ”- Valentin Privalov laughs.
June 4 marks exactly 50 years since the unusual incident - a MiG-17 jet fighter flew under a bridge in Novosibirsk. The "feat" of the pilot Valentin Privalov was captured in the photo ...
The pilot is "suicide"
As eyewitnesses recall, that day in 1965 turned out to be hot. On a lazy Friday afternoon, it was crowded on the embankment, and on the city beach - in general, the apple had nowhere to fall. Young Novosibirsk citizens - students and schoolchildren have just started their holidays. Silence, calmness and goodness - summer in Soviet Novosibirsk.
The city was preparing to fall into an afternoon doze, when suddenly ... a roar came from the sky. The sound grew and quickly became threatening. On the embankment they began to look around in alarm: what is making noise?
And suddenly a silvery lightning arose over Otdykha Island (the Ob island closest to the Kommunalny Bridge). And ... began to fall into the Ob, but not vertically, like a stone, but along a smooth descending. When there were a few meters to the water, the silver car leveled off and went straight.
- Yes, it's a plane! A real combat fighter! - someone on the embankment exclaimed.
The crowd fell silent in horror: the fighter flew low over the waves straight to the Communal Bridge. The water under the plane boiled like white breakers - either from the incredible speed of the car, or from the blows of a jet stream from a nozzle. It seemed that a silver boat was flying over the water, and behind it was a white trail (it is called a wake).
- What will happen? the student girl asked in a low voice.
The citizens of Novosibirsk were alarmingly silent: if an unknown hooligan at the helm of a fighter plane makes a mistake even by a millimeter, a tragedy will occur. On the bridge, hundreds of people in cars, trolleybuses and buses are rushing about their business. God forbid, the ace crashes into the support of the Communal ...
The plane ducked directly under the central arch of the bridge and immediately exited on the other side. From the shore it seemed like an unprecedented trick. Someone sighed with relief. But then the jet engine whined, and there, beyond the bridge, silvery lightning shot upward.
People on the other side of the embankment, where the City Principle Park is located today, were numb: a silver plane emerging from under the Kommunalny Bridge flew straight to the railway bridge. The city history began with him, the fate of the country depends on him, and just now a freight train with a forest is going along it!
The silvery lightning missed the railway bridge by only a dozen meters. The plane went into the sky, and the whole embankment, without saying a word, applauded.
Get a scolding from the marshal and stay in the ranks
As Alexander Kamanov (a resident of Novosibirsk who met and talked with Valentin Privalov) says in his memoirs, the pilot noticed the Kommunalny Bridge long ago. Having arrived from Kansk to Novosibirsk for flight training, the ace immediately thought to himself: "I will definitely fly under this bridge!" After one of the trainings, Privalov was going to return to the airfield. But, flying over the Ob, he decided to fulfill his promise to himself.
I approached the target in the direction of the Ob, at a speed of about 700 kilometers per hour. It was scary - until the eyes darkened. Still - at such a speed, getting into the narrow "window" of the bridge arch (30 meters high and 120 meters wide) seemed simply impossible. Even the slightest touch of the control stick changed the height of the car by whole meters.
But the worst was ahead. Immediately after the Kommunalny bridge - just 950 meters away - there is a railway bridge, the most important transport artery of Russia. Privalov had exactly five seconds before the collision. And during this time he managed to abruptly change course and, experiencing wild overloads, screwed into the sky.
And the next day he was arrested. When interrogated by the then Marshal of Defense of the USSR Rodion Malinovsky, Privalov said that he just wanted to become a "real pilot."
And Malinovsky accused the ace of "Chkalovschina": the test pilot also liked to hooligan at the steering wheel. According to Alexander Kamanov, ironically, the marshal uttered these words at the Valery Chkalov Novosibirsk Aviation Plant ...
Privalov, without an airplane, but with a parachute (as it was supposed to be in the form), went back to Kansk by train. He was threatened, if not by a tribunal, then the end of his flying career. However, when the ace arrived at his home unit, a telegram also came there: “Pilot Privalov should not be punished. To limit ourselves to the activities that were carried out with him (meaning an educational conversation with the marshal. - Ed. Note). If you have not been on vacation, send on vacation. If there was, give ten days of rest with the unit. USSR Minister of Defense Marshal R. Malinovsky ".
Apparently, the suicidal courage of the air hooligan conquered the marshal, who was familiar with both Chkalov and Pokryshkin. Who, by the way, were also not against demonstrating their aerial skills. And rightly so. Well, hide it, or what?
TTX Fighter MiG-17
Aircraft length: 11.264 m
Aircraft height: 3.8 m
Wingspan: 9.6 m
Maximum flight range: 1295 km
Maximum flight speed: 1114 km / h
Ceiling (maximum height): 15 600 m
Crew: 1 person
June 4 marks exactly 50 years since the unusual incident - a MiG-17 jet fighter flew under a bridge in Novosibirsk. Pilot Valentin Privalov's "feat" was captured in the photo, which, half a century later, explodes social networks. "KP" recalls how this event happened.
The pilot is "suicide"
As eyewitnesses recall, that day in 1965 turned out to be hot. On a lazy Friday afternoon, it was crowded on the embankment, and on the city beach - in general, the apple had nowhere to fall. Young Novosibirsk citizens - students and schoolchildren have just started their holidays. Silence, calmness and goodness - summer in Soviet Novosibirsk.
The city was preparing to fall into an afternoon doze, when suddenly ... a roar came from the sky. The sound grew and quickly became threatening. On the embankment they began to look around in alarm: what is making noise?
And suddenly a silvery lightning arose over Otdykha Island (the Ob island closest to the Kommunalny Bridge). And ... began to fall into the Ob, but not vertically, like a stone, but along a smooth descending. When there were a few meters to the water, the silver car leveled off and went straight.
It's a plane! A real combat fighter! - someone on the embankment exclaimed.
The crowd fell silent in horror: the fighter flew low over the waves straight to the Communal Bridge. The water under the plane boiled like white breakers - either from the incredible speed of the car, or from the blows of a jet stream from a nozzle. It seemed that a silver boat was flying over the water, and behind it was a white trail (it is called a wake).
The citizens of Novosibirsk were alarmingly silent: if an unknown hooligan at the helm of a fighter plane makes a mistake even by a millimeter, a tragedy will occur. On the bridge, hundreds of people in cars, trolleybuses and buses are rushing about their business. God forbid, the ace crashes into the support of the Communal ...
The plane ducked directly under the central arch of the bridge and immediately exited on the other side. From the shore it seemed like an unprecedented trick. Someone sighed with relief. But then the jet engine whined, and there, beyond the bridge, silvery lightning shot upward.
People on the other side of the embankment, where the City Principle Park is located today, were numb: a silver plane emerging from under the Kommunalny Bridge flew straight to the railway bridge. The city history began with him, the fate of the country depends on him, and just now a freight train with a forest is going along it!
The silvery lightning missed the railway bridge by only a dozen meters. The plane went into the sky, and the whole embankment, without saying a word, applauded.
Get a scolding from the marshal and stay in the ranks
As Alexander Kamanov (a resident of Novosibirsk who met and talked with Valentin Privalov) says in his memoirs, the pilot noticed the Kommunalny Bridge long ago. Having arrived from Kansk to Novosibirsk for flight training, the ace immediately thought to himself: "I will definitely fly under this bridge!"
After one of the trainings, Privalov was going to return to the airfield. But, flying over the Ob, he decided to fulfill his promise to himself.
I approached the target in the direction of the Ob, at a speed of about 700 kilometers per hour. It was scary - until the eyes darkened. Still - at such a speed, getting into the narrow "window" of the bridge arch (30 meters high and 120 meters wide) seemed simply impossible. Even the slightest touch of the control stick changed the height of the car by whole meters.
But the worst was ahead. Immediately after the Kommunalny bridge - just 950 meters away - there is a railway bridge, the most important transport artery of Russia. Privalov had exactly five seconds before the collision. And during this time he managed to abruptly change course and, experiencing wild overloads, screwed into the sky.
And the next day he was arrested. During interrogation by the then Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky, Privalov said that he just wanted to become a "real pilot."
And Malinovsky accused the ace of "Chkalovschina": the test pilot also liked to hooligan at the steering wheel. According to Alexander Kamanov, ironically, the marshal uttered these words at the Valery Chkalov Novosibirsk Aviation Plant ...
Privalov, without an airplane, but with a parachute (as it was supposed to be in the form), went back to Kansk by train. He was threatened, if not by a tribunal, then the end of his flying career. However, when the ace arrived at his home unit, a telegram also came there: “Pilot Privalov should not be punished. To limit ourselves to the activities that were carried out with him (meaning an educational conversation with the marshal. - Ed. Note). If you have not been on vacation, send on vacation. If there was, give ten days of rest with the unit. USSR Minister of Defense Marshal R. Malinovsky ".
Apparently, the suicidal courage of the air hooligan conquered the marshal, who was familiar with both Chkalov and Pokryshkin. Who, by the way, were also not against demonstrating their aerial skills. And rightly so. Well, hide it, or what?
Fighter MiG-17
BY THE WAY
"Suicide Bridge" or "Guardian Angel Bridge"?
Alas, in recent years, the symbol of Novosibirsk has become infamous. Say, he turned into a "suicide bridge." How many cases were there when the townspeople tried to take their own lives by jumping from it, no one counted. We tried to do this and found out that all known cases ended ... happily.
According to the workers serving the bridge, suicides are most active in jumping from ten in the evening to one in the morning.
So maybe it's time to rename the "Suicide Bridge" to "Guardian Angel Bridge"?
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Chkalov's failure haunts our pilots.
On June 4, 1965, military ace Valentin Privalov, who was doing military service in the Kansk garrison, flew in a MiG-17 jet aircraft under the bridge, just a couple of meters from the surface of the water.
At the beginning of June 1965, the cannon anti-aircraft artillery of two motorized rifle divisions of the Siberian Military District began to pass a kind of combat exam at a training ground near the city of Yurga. In order for everything to be natural, as in a real battle, a link of four MiG-17s was transported from the 712th Guards Aviation Regiment to Tolmachevo. Captain Privalov was among the pilots.
72-year-old Valentin Privalov today.
Ground anti-aircraft gunners from 57-mm guns fired at the mirror image of MiG-17 fighters, and the authorities with large stars on their shoulder straps drew conclusions about the degree of preparedness of each of the divisions. After such an imitation of the defeat of the air enemy, Privalov, following to the airfield in Tolmachevo, saw under him the Communal bridge across the Ob River in Novosibirsk, connecting the Leninsky and Oktyabrsky districts of the city.
Built in 1952-55, the bridge consisted of seven 128-meter spans.
The pilot Privalov noticed the communal bridge a long time ago. Having arrived from Kansk to Novosibirsk for flight training, the ace immediately thought to himself: "I will definitely fly under this bridge!" And such a case presented itself.
The pilot approached the target in the direction of the Ob, at a speed of about 700 kilometers per hour.
In Novosibirsk, that day on June 4, 1965 turned out to be hot. On a lazy Friday afternoon, it was crowded on the embankment, and on the city beach - in general, the apple had nowhere to fall. Young Novosibirsk citizens - students and schoolchildren have just started their holidays. The city was preparing to fall into an afternoon doze, when suddenly ... a roar came from the sky. The sound grew and quickly became threatening. And suddenly a silvery lightning arose over Otdykha Island (the Ob island closest to the Kommunalny Bridge). And ... began to fall into the Ob, but not vertically, like a stone, but along a smooth descending. When there were a few meters to the water, the silver car leveled off and went straight.
The citizens of Novosibirsk were alarmingly silent: if an unknown hooligan at the helm of a fighter plane makes a mistake even by a millimeter, a tragedy will occur. On the bridge, hundreds of people in cars, trolleybuses and buses are rushing about their business. God forbid, the ace crashes into the support of the Communal ...
The plane ducked directly under the central arch of the bridge and immediately exited on the other side. From the shore it seemed like an unprecedented trick. Someone sighed with relief. But then the jet engine whined, and there, beyond the bridge, silvery lightning shot upward, pouring water and hot air onto the bridge.
It was fortunate that there were no boats or repairs under the bridge or next to it.
People on the other side of the embankment, where the City Principle Park is located today, were numb: now the plane emerging from under the Kommunalny Bridge was flying straight to the railway bridge.
MIG missed the railway bridge by only a dozen meters. The plane went into the sky, and the whole embankment, without saying a word, crossed itself and, having changed diapers, applauded.
The next day, June 5, 1965, all four pilots seconded from Kansk were arrested. The emergency was reported vertically, and soon everyone who was supposed to be in office learned about a case unprecedented since the time of Valery Chkalov.
They also reported to the Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky. Anticipating numerous thunders and lightning from the General Staff Olympus and the imminent prospect of Privalov being brought to court, the regiment's communists hurriedly expelled the desperate pilot from the ranks of the CPSU. And this in those years meant the end of the aviation biography, even in the most favorable scenario.
When interrogated by the then Marshal of Defense of the USSR Rodion Malinovsky, Privalov said that he just wanted to become a "real pilot." Privalov, without an airplane, but with a parachute (as it was supposed to be in the form), went back to Kansk by train. He was threatened, if not by a tribunal, then the end of his flying career.
However, when the ace arrived at his home part, a telegram arrived there:
“Pilot Privalov should not be punished. Limit yourself to the activities that were carried out with him. If you have not been on vacation, send on vacation. If there was, give ten days of rest with the unit. Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya. Malinovsky. "
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