Kuryzhov biography

The Alley of Heroes in Chuguev Kuryzhov Davyd Konstantinovich - Deputy Commander of the Squadron of the Supervision Aviation Aviation Regiment I am an assault aircraft division, I am an air army, the 2nd Baltic Front, a senior lieutenant. Born on March 9, in the village of Kuznetsovo, now the Bogorodsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region in the family of a peasant.

He graduated from high school in the village of Shapkino. He worked as a teacher of the elementary school of the village of Kasanich of the Bogorodsky district. He was drafted into the Red Army in the year. In August, he entered the Kharkov Military School of School, and after its graduation in the year, to the school of pilots in the city of Engels. I mastered the IL-Schurmovik plane at the end of my studies was left at the school as an instructor.

In the army since August. He fought as part of the GO assault aviation regiment on the Bryansk, 2nd Baltic fronts. By February, the deputy commander of the squadron, Senior Lieutenant Kuryzhov, made 95 sorties in which he destroyed 5 tanks, 15 vehicles, and a lot of enemy manpower. He was presented to the assignment of the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Victory Day met in Courland, where, together with ground forces, the pilots finished off the enemy group pressed to the Baltic Sea.

For a year and a half, he made combat departures, more than once successfully headed groups of aircraft. He was only shot down once, but reached the plane to his territory, after the hospital he returned to the regiment. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated August 18, for the exemplary execution of the command missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and the senior lieutenant Kuryzhov Davyd Konstantinovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal.

After the war, he continued to serve in military aviation. For three years he served as the squadron commander in a separate mixed aviation regiment in the city of Riga, graduated from the highest officer flight-tactical courses.

In the year he graduated from the V. Lenin Military-Political Academy, was the deputy commander of the aviation regiment for the political unit. In the year, due to health reasons, Lieutenant Colonel Kuryzhov was fired in the reserve. He lived in the city of Domodedovo, Moscow Region. He worked for the first time as a teacher, and then the dispatcher of the Domodedovo airport.

He died on January 21 of the year. He was buried in Domodedovo in the new cemetery. He was the last hero of the Soviet Union, who lived in Domodedov. He was awarded the Order of Lenin in the city of Bogorodsk on the Heroes Alley. A bust of D. was installed in the city of Domodedovo on the alley of the Heroes of the Soviet Union and the full cavaliers of the Order of Glory Central microdistrict, the alley of the Victory Flight of the Hero and its bas -relief; On the house in which he lived is a memorial plaque.