1. Nikolay Timofeyevich Antoshkin was a Mokshan Russian Air Force colonel general, Hero of the Soviet Union and politician.
28 Facts About Nikolay Antoshkin
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Nikolay Antoshkin became commander of the Air Force of the 20th Guards Army in May 1980.
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Nikolay Antoshkin later commanded the Air Forces of the Central Asian Military District and Moscow Military District.
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Between 1993 and 1997 Nikolay Antoshkin led Russian Air Force Frontal Aviation.
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Nikolay Antoshkin was elected a deputy of the State Duma in 2014.
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Nikolay Antoshkin was born on 19 December 1942 in the village of Kuzminovka in the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Nikolay Antoshkin worked as a worker in the repair and construction workshop and physical education instructor at the Kumertau Power Plant between 1960 and 1961.
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Nikolay Antoshkin was drafted into the Soviet Armed Forces in August 1961.
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Nikolay Antoshkin was sent to the Orenburg Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots, graduating in 1965.
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Nikolay Antoshkin became a pilot, squadron chief of staff and flight leader in a separate reconnaissance aviation regiment in the Belorussian Military District.
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Nikolay Antoshkin was promoted to senior lieutenant on 6 December 1967.
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Nikolay Antoshkin received the rank of captain on 30 December 1969.
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Nikolay Antoshkin graduated from the Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1973.
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Nikolay Antoshkin became a squadron commander and deputy commander of a training reconnaissance aviation regiment in the Odessa Military District.
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Between September 1975 and June 1979 Nikolay Antoshkin led the 87th Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment in the Turkestan Military District.
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Nikolay Antoshkin was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 19 September 1975.
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On 22 February 1977, Nikolay Antoshkin was awarded the Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 3rd class.
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Nikolay Antoshkin became commander of the Air Force of the 20th Guards Army in May 1980.
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In March 1985, Nikolay Antoshkin became chief of staff of the Air Forces of the Kyiv Military District.
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Immediately after the Chernobyl disaster, Nikolay Antoshkin carried out a helicopter flyby of the plant on 26 April 1986.
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Nikolay Antoshkin was promoted to lieutenant general on 25 April 1990.
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From November 1993 to March 1997 Nikolay Antoshkin led Russian Air Force Frontal aviation.
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Nikolay Antoshkin was promoted to colonel general on 10 June 1994.
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Nikolay Antoshkin became an honorary citizen of Mordovia around this time.
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Nikolay Antoshkin was awarded the Russian Federation Government Award in 2012 for "significant contributions to the development of the Russian Air Force".
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Nikolay Antoshkin was a member of the State Duma Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Ecology.
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Nikolay Antoshkin's son Sergey was born in 1967 and his daughter Elena was born in 1975.
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Nikolay Antoshkin died in January 2021, after being treated for COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia.