Biography Garnas Alexander

Born on December 17, in the city of Balashov, the Saratov province now - the region. In the year, he graduated from the 3rd year of the Podolsk Industrial College. In years he worked as a turner at the Lianozovsky car repair plant. In the year he graduated from the Mytishchi aero club. In connection with the admission to the Engels Military Aviation School of pilots, in the year Yuri Aleksandrovich Garnaev was drafted into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army to the Mytishchi district military commissariat of the Moscow Region.

At the end of the air school, he served in the combat units of the Air Force in Transbaikalia. The service in fighter aircraft began for him with air battles with Japanese militarists in the area of ​​the Khalkhin-Gol River. Here he received his first combat award. From the year he served as a pilot-instructor of the Transbaikal Higher Aviation School of Pilot in the city of Ulan-Ude.

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Yu. Garnaev submits a report on sending to the front.

However, the report was not satisfied: an experienced pilot and instructor needed young aviators. Since the year, Yu. Garnaev again served in the combat units of the Air Force. Yuri Alexandrovich - participant in the Soviet -Japanese war. From August to September, he served as the navigator of the DO fighter aviation regiment on the Trans -Baikal Front. He made 20 sorties.

In December, he was convicted by the military tribunal of the 9th Air Army "for violating the secrecy regime" and was fired from the armed forces. He was ahead of schedule in October of the year. Before the release, he was the head of the club of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Norilsk. In the years, Yu. Garnaev worked as a technologist at the Flight Research Institute in the city of Zhukovsky, Moscow Region, and in years - the head of the Strela club in the same city.

From January to December, he worked as a parachutist-test of a flight research institute. Since December, he has been a test pilot LII. In the year, he graduated from courses at the school of test pilots. Garnaev carried out the following works: tests of spacesuits of high-compensation costumes on aircraft of a moment, silt, TU in years; Testing the Mi-3 helicopter in the regime of authoritation per year; tests of experienced autopilots on the Mi-4 helicopter per year; Testing on shooting blades at the Mi-4 helicopter per year; tests for the maximum speed of the Migf aircraft; tests of a number of experienced engines on fighter aircraft; Rescue tests; Testing the power plant of the Mi-6 helicopter; Testing aircraft TU and AN for dumping in the year; Testing of the Yak helicopters in years, mi in the year, in years; Winging the wing to refuel aircraft in the year.

Due to the refusal of technology, he repeatedly found himself in the most difficult situations, which is called "on the verge", and always came out of them with honor. In the year, he completed the first test flight on the “turbo”, created under the leadership of the designer Aram Nazarovich Rafaelian in the year at the design bureau of the flight research institute. In the year, the turbo chop, piloted by Yu.

Garnaev, was shown at the air parade in Tushino with great success with the audience. The results of the studies were later applied in the construction of the first Soviet aircraft of vertical take -off and landing of the Yak, and later serial Yak, and it was Yuri Alexandrovich who was the first to raise this plane into the air. He also carried out a number of works on the Soviet space program.

Garnaev participated in the training of members of the first detachment of the Center for the Training of Air Force Cosmonauts in a zero gravity in specially equipped Tull laboratories, having previously experienced these aircraft. He was engaged in the development of a lunar module on a “turbo” and participated in the training of a group of cosmonauts according to this program at the helicopter specially converted for this by the helicopter Miuri Alexandrovich was connected by close friendship with the first cosmonaut Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, as well as with other members of the first detachment of the Air Force.

Garnaev is a repeated participant in aviation parades near Moscow and international air sites. In the spring of the year, at the Mi-6 helicopter, he took part in the installation of power lines in the Swiss Alps. In the summer of the year, Yu. Garnaev again participated in the work of the International Aviation Salon in Le-Bourger France. He was the only Soviet pilot who received from the hands of the Americans a certificate for managing helicopters of the structure of Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky.

A graduate of the Armavir Higher Aviation School and the School of Police-testers of the Ministry of Aviation Industry. He worked as a test pilot in the OKB of A. Mikoyan and the flight Institute named after M. Gromov, the city of Zhukovsky, the Moscow region. Currently, he is the commander of Airbus aircraft and Aeroflot airline. This was the only case in the history of the awards of the simultaneous assignment of the titles of the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Honored Player of the USSR SPIRITY to the same person.

He was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, medals "For Courage", for participating in the hostilities in the area of ​​the Khalkhin-Gol river, "For the victory over Japan" and other awards. This happened during the extinguishing of a large forest fire, in difficult conditions of mountainous terrain. Together with the crew commander Y.