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Mykola Koval (pilot)
Mykola Leonidovych Koval ( uk, Микола Леонідович Коваль, born 2 January 1952, Kvasyliv, Rivne Oblast) is a Ukrainian fighter pilot, Colonel in the reserve of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant of the Afghan war. He is also an honorary citizen of Pennsylvania and California. Education Koval studied at Novozdolbuniv school No. 3. In 1973, he graduated from the Chernihiv Higher Military School of Pilots (specialization — military pilot-engineer), and in 1978 — from the Gagarin Air Force Academy.Микола КовальКвасилів: Фрагменти історії В 2-х т., Т. II, упор. А. Лимич, Рівне: Волинські обереги, 2012, s. 462—463.: іл., ISBN 978-966-416-270-5. State exams and related flights by the graduating cadets were supervised by a commission of experienced military pilots, headed by the prominent WWII fighter-pilot, three times Hero of the Soviet Union, Air Marshal Ivan Kozh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kvasyliv
Kvasyliv ( uk, Квасилів; pl, Kwasiłów) is an urban-type settlement in Rivne Raion (district) of Rivne Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Population: Kvasyliv was first founded in 1445, and it acquired the status of an urban-type settlement in 1959. People * Mykola Koval (born 1952), Ukrainian fighter pilot-ace See also * Klevan, Orzhiv Orzhiv ( uk, Оржів) is an urban-type settlement in Rivne Raion (raion, district) of Rivne Oblast (oblast, province) in western Ukraine. Its population was 4,230 as of the Ukrainian Census (2001), 2001 Ukrainian Census. Current population: ..., the other two urban-type settlements in Rivne Raion of Rivne Oblast References Urban-type settlements in Rivne Raion Populated places established in the 1440s {{Rivne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Kozhedub
Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub (Russian: Иван Hикитович Кожедуб; Ukrainian: Іван Микитович Кожедуб; 8 June 1920 – 8 August 1991) was a Soviet World War II fighter ace. Universally credited with over 60 solo victories, he is considered to be the highest scoring Soviet and Allied fighter pilot of World War II. He is one of the few pilots to have shot down a Messerschmitt Me 262 jet, and the first Soviet pilot to have done so. He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on three occasions (4 February 1944, 19 August 1944, and 18 August 1945). After World War II, he remained in the military and went on to command the 324th Fighter Aviation Division during Soviet operations in the Korean War. Early life Kozhedub was born on 8 June 1920 to a Ukrainian family in the village of Obrazhiivka, in Chernigov Governorate, located within what is now Shostka Raion of Ukraine's Sumy Oblast. After graduating from his seventh grade of school in his hometown in 1934 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (WP) or Treaty of Warsaw, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. The term "Warsaw Pact" commonly refers to both the treaty itself and its resultant defensive alliance, the Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO). The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), the regional economic organization for the socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)"In reaction to West Germany's NATO accession, the Soviet Union and its Eastern European client states formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955." Citation from: in 1955 as per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954.The Warsaw Pact R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Group Of Forces
The Northern Group of Forces (; ) was the military formation of the Soviet Army stationed in People's Republic of Poland, Poland from the end of World War II, Second World War in 1945 until 1993 when they were withdrawn in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. Although officially considered Polish allies under the Warsaw Pact treaty, they were seen by some Poles as a Soviet occupation force. History Early years Soviet forces entered Poland as they were advancing towards Nazi Germany in the course of the Red Army's Operation Bagration in the summer of 1944. Following the Vistula-Oder Offensive in early 1945, all of Poland was liberated from Nazi occupation by Soviet forces. While formal Polish sovereignty was almost immediately restored, the territory of Poland fell under ''de facto'' Soviet control as the Soviet military and security forces acted to ensure that Poland would be ruled by the Soviet-installed Polish Committee of National Liberation, communist puppet govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
