On Victory Day in the Pinsk region, the names of three previously unknown Soviet pilots will be immortalized

2023-05-08 14:50:00

In the village of Lyshche, Pinsk region, there is a mass grave of Soviet pilots, in which the remains of two crew members of an aircraft shot down over this settlement have long been buried. And recently managed to find the crash site of two more planes. With the help of Russian search engines, who did a lot of work in the archives, it was possible to establish the names of the dead crew members and the circumstances of their last flights in the sky over Pinsk region. These are Boris Banadysev, Nikandr Yergin and Timofey Osmachko. All of them did not return from the battle as part of Operation Bagration. The Il-4 bomber of Yergin and Osmachko, assigned to the 10th Long-Range Guards Aviation Regiment, was shot down on July 1, and the Yak-9 fighter of Banadysev, who served in the 483rd Fighter Aviation Regiment, was shot down on July 4th.

According to “Pinsky telegram”, it was decided to perpetuate the names of previously unknown pilots in a military grave along with their “brothers in the sky”. The grandson of one of the dead pilots, who will come from St. Petersburg, will also take part in the opening ceremony of a new memorial plate in the village of Lyshche.