Today, April 15, 2021, performs exactly 100 years since the birth of the Cosmonaut’s pilot of the USSR, twice the hero of the Soviet Union, the participant of the Great Patriotic War George Coastal. Georgy Timofeevich was born on April 15, 1921 in the village of Fedorovka Poltava region, and his childhood spent in the city of Enakievo Donetsk region. It was here, in Enakievo, a dream about heaven in him. But the path to the execution of the outlined was not easy.
Two “Stars” George Besome. CPC project “Heroes of War – Cosmos Heroes”
In school, he was engaged in aircodemalism, but dreamed of real flights, it would still be: After all, the pilot was going to become his older brother, Victor: “When I saw him in the blue form of a pilot, everything turned over in the soul. He became a cumier Only for me, but for all boys … The main thing was in his human charm, in combination of force with the mentality, which he literally radiated, together with a deep commitment to aviation, who captured us, boys. “
The sky attracted uncontrollably, so, having learned that in the Yenakiev AirlUB, where the elder brother was already engaged, it is easier to enter the young worker from the factory, Zhora throws school on the eighth year of study and enters the metallurgical plant of an electric train. But the trouble: the younger coast did not achieve the majority. At the request of the Komsomol organization of the Enakievsky Metallurgical Plant – as a special exception! – Georgy Coast was adopted in the Aeroklub. Now he had to combine classes in the aeroclube with work in the workshop at the factory.
Soon – he was almost over sixteen years old – he first raised the aircraft into the air, and in seventeen – again in the form of an exception! – I achieved enrollment to the school of military pilots. He graduated from Georgy Coast School on the eve of the Great Patriotic War. In the summer of 1941, he, a graduate of the Lugansk Aviashlik, was supposed to arrive in Bobruisk to pass the service in the intelligence regiment. Here, in Belarus, and began for him “powder weekdays” of war.
in a year, in 1942, he mastered the piloting of the IL-2 attack aircraft. It was a formidable and powerful car – a real “flying tank”. German fighters specifically hunted them. Once the coastal plane was shot down. From the place of a forced landing, the pilot went on foot, taking a parachute on himself and then the equipment that was relied on the aircraft with the victim. In the regiment I got only for the fifth day. He was not waiting already, they believed that he was killed.