Biography of Dokukin

Mass grave in the city of Zverevo view 2 Dokukin Ivan Arkhipovich-Deputy Commander of the Squadron of the Supervision Aviation Aviation Aviation Aviation Division of the 8th Air Army of the Southeast Front, Lieutenant. Born on June 17 in the village of Znamenka, now the Bolsheboldinsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region in the family of a peasant. Father died during the civil war.

He graduated from a rural elementary school in the year. Mother went to work in Moscow, where she also took her son in the year. He worked as a welder in the termite workshop of the Moscow Caliber plant. In the year, the Komsomol organization of the plant sent him to the planning school of the Rostokinsky district, after its graduation - to Tushino and then to the Serpukhov air school.

In the Red Army since the year. In the year he graduated from the Serpukhov military aviation school of pilots. Since June in the army. The war found Ivan Dokukin in the aviation unit, which was based on the western border. And from the very beginning of the war, the pilot participated in battles. He defended the sky of Leningrad. From October 9 to 13, Dokukin on IL-2 made 5 sorties to destroy the enemy ground forces.

As a result, along with other pilots of the unit, he destroyed to the battalion of enemy infantry, several tanks, guns. He immediately attacked Yu and shot down him. Then, taking his place in the ranks, he continued the flight to the goal. Soon, our pilots attacked the enemy, blew up and set fire to 3 tanks, 5 tanks with fuel and 10 enemy vehicles with ammunition. In January, the front -line newspaper wrote: “The young pilot Dokukina loves the entire personnel of our unit for not knowing fear in the fight against enemies the largest number of sorties are listed as Comrade Dokukin.

He, in no reckoning with nothing, not sparing his strength and life, inflicts fatal blows to the Nazi hordes. ” The advancing parts of the Volkhov Front met a strong artillery and machine -gun fire of the enemy. It was necessary to destroy the enemy nodes of resistance and firing points. This task received I. flying up to the goal, he fell into continuous cloudiness. The pilot went down to a height of meters, found the target and accurately threw the bomb cargo into trenches, the dugouts of the enemy, to the cluster of enemy troops.

The losses of the enemy this time were especially great, because he did not expect bombing in conditions of such adverse weather. On the way back to the airfield, the plane of I. Dokukin icled, visibility was completely lost. It seemed that the catastrophe was inevitable. But thanks to skill and cold -stop, the pilot safely put the car at his airfield.

In May, heated battles flared up near Kharkov. Dokukin, as part of the eight, then made repeated raids on enemy airfields, where fascist fighters were deployed. Acting boldly and decisively, he and his combat comrades destroyed 15 IU on the ground and in air battles in a short time. Since the middle of the summer, Dokukin fought at the front near Stalingrad. Appearing at dawn, our attack aircraft caught the enemy by surprise and destroyed 40 fascist aircraft.

By September 25, Lieutenant Dokukin, deputy squadron commander of the Squader Aviation Aviation Regiment, destroyed 8 aircraft, 15 tanks, cars with military cargo, 15 motorcycles, 3 anti -aircraft guns, 4 gas stages and many other enemy military property. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 8, for the exemplary execution of command missions of the command at the front of the struggle with the German invaders and the heroism shown at the same time, Lieutenant Dokukin, Ivan Arkhipovich, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal.

In the summer of the year, he fought over the Mius River and in the sky of Donbass. The squadron commander of the guard, Captain I. Dokukin on July 8, died in an aviation disaster. He was buried in a mass grave in the city of Zverevo, Rostov region. He was awarded the Order of Lenin in Moscow the name of the hero is the street and the team of the Kaliber factory, on the territory of which its bust is installed.

The name of I. Dokukin was knocked out on the stele on the Heroes Alley in Volgograd.