Photo of the Hero of the Soviet Union V.N. Sidorin

The original wartime photograph is in very good collector's condition. The size is 50*75 mm. There are traces of pasting into the album on the back. Guarantee of authenticity.

Vasily Nikolaevich Sidorin (1921-1992) — participant of the Great Patriotic War, flight commander of the 807th Assault Aviation Regiment (206th Assault Aviation Division, 7th Assault Aviation Corps, 14th Air Army, 3rd Baltic Front), Lieutenant. Hero of the Soviet Union.

In the army since June 1940. In 1942, he graduated from the Engels Military Aviation School of Pilots. He participated in the Great Patriotic War from June 1943 as a flight commander of the 807th Assault Aviation Regiment. He fought on the North Caucasian, Southern, 4th Ukrainian, Leningrad, 2nd and 3rd Baltic fronts. He took part in the breakthrough of the enemy's defenses on the Mius and Molochnaya rivers, in the liberation of Donbass, Crimea, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Member of the CPSU since 1944. By September 1944, he had flown 142 combat sorties on an IL-2 attack aircraft, destroyed 18 tanks, 29 vehicles, 2 railway trains and many other military equipment. During the war, he made 184 sorties, destroying a significant number of enemy military equipment and manpower.

In 1947 he graduated from the Higher Officer School of Navigators (Krasnodar). He continued to serve in the Air Force. Since 1960, Lieutenant Colonel V. N. Sidorin has been in reserve. The Colonel (1975). He lived and worked in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). In the mid-1970s, he moved to Krasny Sulin, Rostov region, where he worked as an electromechanic and chief of Staff of the city's Civil Defense. He died on September 11, 1992, and was buried in the cemetery in the village of 50 let Oktyabrya[1], Krasny Sulin.