Photo of SSS Lieutenant General of the USSR Navy P.I. Khokhlov.

The original picture is in very good collector's condition. The size is 145*200 mm. The reverse side is clean. Guarantee of authenticity.

Pyotr Ilyich Khokhlov (January 12, 1910, Esipovo — March 7, 1990, Moscow) was a Soviet naval pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (08/13/1941). Lieutenant General of Aviation (05/25/1959). He was born in the village of Esipovo, now in the Serebryano-Prudsky district[4] of the Moscow region, in a working-class family. He graduated from seven grades of school and the school of the Federal Law. Since 1929, he worked as a turner at the Moscow Kalinin factory. In July 1932, he was called up to serve in the Red Army Air Force. In 1933 he graduated from the 2nd Volsky Military Technical Aviation School. Since December 1933, he has been a junior aircraft technician of the 8th Transport Aviation Squadron in Rostov-on-Don. In 1936, he graduated from the Military School of Naval Pilots and Pilots of the Red Army Air Force named after I. V. Stalin in Yeysk. After graduation, he was sent to the aviation of the USSR Navy, from December 1936 he was a junior observer pilot in the 27th separate aviation squadron of the Baltic Fleet Air Force. Since September 1937, he has been a flight navigator, and since April 1938, a navigator of the Baltic Fleet Air Force squadron. In December 1939 — March 1940, he participated in the Winter War, flew 10 combat missions. Since April 1940, he has been the flagship navigator of the 3rd Squadron of the 1st mine-torpedo Aviation Regiment of the BF Air Force. In 1940, he joined the CPSU(b).

He participated in the Great Patriotic War from June 1941. The head of the navigation service is the flagstaff of the 1st mine—torpedo Aviation Regiment (8th Bomber Aviation Brigade of the KBF Air Force) under the command of E. N. Preobrazhensky, Captain P. I. Khokhlov on the night of August 8, 1941, as part of the flagship crew of the Il-4 bomber, the commander of the Hero of the Soviet Union regiment, Colonel E. N. Preobrazhensky. He participated in the first bombing raids of Soviet aviation on the capital of Nazi Germany — the city of Berlin.

For exemplary performance of combat missions of the Command at the front of the fight against German fascism and bravery and heroism shown at the same time, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated August 13, 1941, Captain Khokhlov Pyotr Ilyich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (medal No. 524 was awarded). In total, in August 1941, Captain Khokhlov carried out 6 bombing raids on Berlin and other facilities on German territory. He continued to actively participate in the battles during the defense of Leningrad and in raids on industrial centers and naval bases in Finland, as well as in Narva and Tallinn. In January 1942, on a TB-3 aircraft damaged by anti-aircraft fire, upon returning from bombing the target, it made an emergency landing in the forest and in a thirty-degree frost the crew (including Colonel E. N. Preobrazhensky managed to get out through the snow to his own. In August 1942, he was appointed flagship navigator of the 8th Bomber Aviation Brigade of the Baltic Fleet Air Force. In June 1943, he was transferred to the Black Sea Fleet and appointed flagship navigator of the 63rd Aviation Brigade. From July 1943, he was the flagship navigator of the 1st mine—torpedo Aviation Division of the Fleet Air Force (in May 1944, for the differences during the liberation of Crimea and Sevastopol, the division became the Guards and was called the 2nd Guards Mine-torpedo Aviation Division of the Navy Air Force). On the Black Sea, he participated in the Battle for the Caucasus, in the Novorossiysk-Taman and Crimean offensive operations.

Since June 1944, he has been the flagstaff of the Northern Fleet Air Force Directorate. In the Barents Sea, he participated in the defense of the Arctic and in the Petsamo-Kirkenes operation. He flew 192 combat missions on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.

Since December 1945, he studied at the Academic Officer Courses at the Voroshilov Naval Academy, from which he graduated in 1946. He again served as the flagstaff of the Northern Fleet Air Force Directorate (in February 1947, the position was called: chief navigator of the Fleet Air Force), and left it in December 1948 to study again. In 1950 he graduated from the Voroshilov Higher Military Academy. Since December 1950, he has been the Chief Navigator of the Soviet Navy Air Force. Major General of Aviation (01/27/1951). From March 1953 — Chief of Staff — Deputy Commander (from November 1954 Chief of Staff — 1st Deputy Commander) The Air Force of the 4th Navy. When in January 1956 the 4th Navy and the 8th Navy were reunited into the Baltic Fleet, he was appointed to the same position in the Baltic Fleet. Since February 1961 — Chief of the Naval Aviation Staff. During his service in the Armed Forces, he mastered 13 types of aircraft. In January 1971, Aviation Lieutenant General P. I. Khokhlov was dismissed due to illness. He lived in Moscow. He is the author of several books of memoirs. He died in 1990. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery.