Photo of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Captain of the Red Army Air Force Ya.I. Plyashechnik

The original photo is in excellent collector's condition. The size is 73*52 mm. There are traces of pasting into the album on the back. Guarantee of authenticity.

Yakov Ivanovich Plyashechnik (1907 — 1944) was a Guard major of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, a participant in the Great Patriotic Wars, Hero of the Soviet Union (1942). Yakov Plyashechnik was born on December 9, 1907 in the village of Grabarovka (now the Piryatinsky district of the Poltava region of Ukraine). After graduating from the seventh grade of school, he worked on a collective farm. In 1929, Plyashechnik was drafted to serve in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In 1934, he graduated from the Sevastopol Military Aviation School of Pilots. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War — on its fronts. By March 1942, Captain Yakov Plyashechnik commanded the squadron of the 1st Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 23rd Bomber Aviation Division of Long-range Bomber Aviation. By that time, he had completed 74 combat sorties to bombard enemy concentrations of military equipment and manpower, his important facilities, as well as to drop troops into the enemy rear. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On awarding the title Hero of the Soviet Union to the commanding staff of the Red Army Air Force" dated June 20, 1942, for "exemplary performance of combat missions of the command at the front of the struggle against the German invaders and bravery and heroism", he was awarded the high title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the medal"Golden Star" number 586. On February 11, 1944, the Dancer died in battle. He was buried at the fraternal cemetery in Vsevolozhsk. He was also awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree and the Red Star, as well as a number of medals.