Simferopol school No. 17 was named after Great Patriotic War participant Alexander Kuznetsov

CrimeaPRESS reports:

School-lyceum No. 17 in Simferopol will be named after the Great Patriotic War participant Alexander Semenovich Kuznetsov. The decision was made by deputies of the Simferopol City Council during an extraordinary session.

Natalya Matyukhina, deputy head of the education department of the city administration, made a report on the rationale for naming the school after the hero.

School-lyceum No. 17 is implementing a school development program based on the patriotic education of students. Naming the educational institution after Alexander Semenovich Kuznetsov, the defender of the Motherland, who made a significant contribution to the liberation of the Soviet Union and Poland from the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War, is caused by the need for a positive change in the socio-cultural situation. Carrying out search work to identify participants in the Great Patriotic War who lived in the school district, the guys collected material about Alexander Semenovich Kuznetsovsaid Natalya Matyukhina.

Kuznetsov Alexander Semyonovich was born on September 8, 1922 in the Tula region. In 1939, he entered the Vyaznikovsky flying club, after which he remained at the flying club as an instructor. Despite his young age, he mastered several types of aircraft and successfully trained cadets. The war found him at the flying club.

He reached the front only on October 10, 1941 and was assigned to the 713th Transport Aviation Regiment to fly a U-2 aircraft. The regiment carried out transport missions and carried out reconnaissance. In 1941-1942, Alexander Kuznetsov flew a U-2 across the front line behind enemy lines. He delivered weapons, medicines, batteries for radios to partisan detachments, and transported the wounded. Kuznetsov A.S. received his first government award — the Order of the Red Star. received for “exemplary performance of the task of transporting soldiers and ammunition and evacuating wounded soldiers from behind enemy lines” in 1942. In total, during the Great Patriotic War, Alexander Kuznetsov made 714 combat missions (about 550 on the territory of the Soviet Union, the rest in Poland), shot down 12 enemy aircraft (8 on the territory of the Soviet Union, 4 in Poland).

After the war, he was sent to military unit No. 93851 at the 71st special training ground in Bagerovo (Crimea). It was a closed security facility intended for testing special ammunition and their delivery vehicles. From 1949 to 1962, test site personnel participated in 178 nuclear tests. For one of them he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In 1955, he was awarded the qualification of a first class military pilot. He finished his service in 1964 as deputy regiment commander and with the rank of colonel. Afterwards he worked for a long time at the Simferopol Central Airport as a dispatcher and shift manager of the airport, earning the honorary title of Shock Worker of Communist Labor.

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