Marine pilots of the Northern fleet (NF) made a motion for the assignment of a new shipboard fighter aviation regiment named after Hero of Russia Timur Apakidze, the efforts which Russia's only heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov" was retained for the Navy, said the press service of the Federation Council.
"When the aircraft carrier after the separation of Russia and Ukraine in 1991 was transferred from the Crimea to the Northern fleet, the question arose about Its utilization, as there were pilots that can land a plane on the deck in the far North. Apakidze not only the first of the staff pilots landing combat fighter su-27K on the deck of a heavy aviabearing cruiser, but also prepared a whole galaxy of deck pilots who were able to practice landing on the deck of the ship in a polar region ", ? according to news Agency the letter of the press service of the Federation Council.
General-major Timur Apakidze Avtandilovich the first combat pilots of naval aviation of the Northern fleet on August 17, 1995 he was awarded the highest rank ? of the Hero of the Russian Federation. His he received for participating in the campaign of an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean sea. The number of perfect landings Apakidze fighter on the deck of the aircraft carrier until now has not reached any one of the active pilots of naval aviation of Russia. Among His students there are few Heroes of Russia. Major-General Apakidze died while performing a demonstration flight on July 17, 2001 in the Center of military training and training of pilots of naval aviation at Pskov. The name of Hero named streets in the garrison of the Northern fleet aviators ? Severomorsk-3, Ostrov, Pskov oblast and in the village of novofedorivka in Crimea. Busts Timur Apakidze installed in the Park in the square and in Severomorsk and at the alley of Heroes in the village of novofedorivka. On Wednesday, the bust was unveiled in the Museum of the Northern fleet. Su-33 (also known as su-27K

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