Isaak Samuelovich Igdalov

http://holocf.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Cohrani_moi_pisma2019_v... Igdalov Isaak Samuilovich (Samoilovich) (1913-1993). Born in the town of Gorodok, Vitebsk province. (now - Vitebsk region, Republic of Belarus). His family name was Sasha. From 1930 he lived in Leningrad. In 1934 he was drafted into the Red Army, graduated from the 1st Leningrad Military aviation technical school (now - the Niki Military Space Academy named after A.F. Mozhaisky RF Ministry of Defense). Member of the Soviet-Finnish War.

From June 26, 1941 he took part in hostilities as part of 72nd high-speed bomber regiment and mobile workshops of the 14th VA in the North-West, Leningrad and 3rd Baltic fronts. Senior Lieutenant Technician. Awarded with two medals "For Military Merit" (1944, 1945), medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" (1944). After the war he lived in the town of Nevel, Pskov region. Isaac Igdalov had three brothers - Mikhail, Abram (Arkady), Pinkhus (Pavel, in letters - Pinya), sisters Vera and Rosa. In 1941, near the estate "Golubaya Dacha" in the village. Borki near Nevel, the invaders shot the wife of I.S. Igdalov - Elena with

Lieutenant, senior aeronautical engineering airplane motor group of mobile aircraft repair workshop - 3 710 number.

In the Red Army in August 1934. Member of the Finnish War 1939 - 1940.

He had military training: aviation school, refresher courses officers.

Participated in the Great Patriotic War to the outbreak of hostilities, he reached Berlin. Volkhov, Baltic, Belarus and the Leningrad front. Called Smolninskiy RVC Leningrad.

Honours: Order of the "Red Star", the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", two medals "For Military Merit" and "For the Defense of Leningrad" and "For Victory over Germany", "For the capture of Berlin" and others. Commemorative medals and orders (eg "30 years of the Soviet Army").

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My great-grandfather was drafted into the Armed Forces on August 2, 1934, and transferred to the reserve on December 16, 1948. He served as a captain of the aviation technical service, was a military technician, a Igdalov I.S. Nevelsenior technician of the group. It depended on him how the planes would be ready for departure. My mother remembers how my grandfather told her that he was personally acquainted with Vasily Stalin. Before the war, in 1927, he graduated from a seven-year school, then a vocational-technical school for metalworkers (mechanical faculty).

From 1934 to 1937 advanced training courses for technical flight personnel. Voroshilov of the Leningrad Military District with a degree in aviation technology. As they wrote in the attestation sheet: "Loyal to the party of LENIN-STALIN and the Socialist Motherland." “He treats work honestly and with desire. I took into account the mistakes of the past work, which were expressed in weak exactingness as a commander, which is currently not noticed. " (spelling preserved).

From December 15, 1937 to June 29, 1941, Isaac served in the 44th high-speed bomber regiment in Staraya Russa. 1941 - an aviation technician in the 72 high-speed bomber regiment of the 7th Air Army of the Northern Front in Petrozavodsk. Then he worked as an aviation technician in the stationary workshops of the Volkhov Front, on the 3rd Baltic Front, 1st Belorussian Front, since June 1945 - in the group of Soviet occupation forces in Ernstal Germany.

Here are the lines from the description of 1943: “Comrade. Igdalov as a commander is disciplined, he works on himself and treats work honestly and with desire. "

Igdalov I.S .: Order "Red Star", medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", 2 medals "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Leningrad", "For Victory over Germany", "For the capture of Berlin" and other memorable orders and medals (for example, "30 years of the Soviet Army"). My great-grandfather, of course, did not participate in combat missions himself, but it depended on him how the planes would operate. And often in conditions of battles it was necessary to repair aircraft under enemy fire. Therefore, Isaak Samuilovich was nominated for the government award of the Order of the Red Star "for the early fulfillment of the production plan and the excellent quality of 52 aircraft."

Great-grandfather often recalled the war years and drew a plan "My military roads from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945". He fought on different fronts, following the combat aircraft he repaired. Isaac traveled from Staraya Russa to Berlin. I believe that my great-grandfather was on the front lines throughout the war.

The Igdalov family archive contains letters that Isaak Samuilovich wrote from the front to his relatives and which his sister, brothers, parents wrote to him at the front. The saved letters cover the period from 17.10. 1942 to 19.02. 1944 year. The letters can be traced to a number of events that happened to him at the front.