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Nikolai Kamanin was born on 18 October, 1908 in Melenki, Vladimir Governorate, Russia, is a Soviet aviator (1908-1982). Discover Nikolai Kamanin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 18 October 1908
Birthday 18 October
Birthplace Melenki, Vladimir Governorate, Russia
Date of death 1982
Died Place Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality Russia

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1908

Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin (Никола́й Петро́вич Кама́нин; 18 October 1908 – 11 March 1982) was a Soviet Air Force general and a program manager in the Soviet space program.

1909

According to his son, Lev Kamanin, Nikolai Kamanin was actually born in 1909 and changed it to 1908 to cheat the Army admission staff when he volunteered in 1927.

1919

He died in 1919 at the age of 49; mother, Stefanida Danilovna (1876–1964) lived all her life in Melenki.

Stefanida and Pyotr Kamanin had 10 children; Nikolai survived all his four brothers.

Alexander Ivanovich Kamanin, Nikolai's uncle, lived a very long life, including 50 years of religious hermitage, and had a reputation of a holy elder.

1929

He passed the airforce physical test and completed the pilots' school in Borisoglebsk in 1929, trained by legendary pilot Victor Kholzunov.

Kamanin was dispatched to the site of Russo-Chinese railroad conflict in the Far East, arriving one day after ceasefire.

There, he joined the legendary Lenin Air Regiment, the first air force unit in Soviet history.

Kamanin flew a two-seater reconnaissance airplane, including 11-hour endurance flights over the Sea of Japan.

His crewmate, incidentally, was an ethnic Chinese.

1934

A career aviator, he awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for the rescue of SS Chelyuskin crew from an improvised airfield on the frozen surface of the Chukchi Sea near Kolyuchin Island.

In World War II he successfully commanded an air brigade, air division, and air corps, reaching the rank of Airforce Colonel General and Air Army commander after the war.

It was at this time that his son, Arkady Kamanin, became a fighter pilot at the age of 14, the youngest military pilot in world history.

In February 1934, the steamship SS Chelyuskin was crushed by Arctic ice in the Chukchi Sea.

The surviving 104 crewmembers and passengers set their base on pack ice.

At that time, the United States grounded all Arctic flights after a string of accidents, and the only rescue force on hand was Anatoly Liapidevsky and his ANT-4 crew.

After 28 failed attempts, Liapidevski located the ice camp on 5 March, landed and hauled out twelve of 104 survivors.

A week later, on the second flight to ice camp, he crash-landed the airplane after an engine failure.

The operation stalled.

The Soviet government dispatched three groups of pilots from Far Eastern air bases.

The largest group of seven military and civilian reconnaissance pilots on Polikarpov R-5 biplanes, based in Primorsky Krai, was led by Kamanin (he later grounded one of the pilots for insubordination).

The group sailed from Vladivostok 2 March 1934, disembarked at Olyutorka and landed at Vankarem airfield 1 April.

Kamanin and Vasily Molokov flew from a temporary base in Vankarem settlement to the ice camp, saving 34 and 39 survivors.

On their first flight from the ice camp, R-5 (designed as a two-seater) carried a crew of two, plus two men from Chelyuskin in the hull.

The next flights added makeshift wing gondolas, carrying two more men per mission.

Other pilots from the Kamanin team hauled them from Vankarem to Providence Bay seaport.

The ice camp was completely evacuated 13 April 1934; Kamanin returned with the ship's bosun and eight riding dogs.

The next day, six pilots that flew to the ice camp and back (including Kamanin) and Sigizmund Levanevsky were announced as the first Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Pilots who ferried survivors from Vankarem to Providence received the Order of the Red Star.

1939

In 1939, Kamanin completed training at Zhukovsky Airforce Academy.

Prior to his front-line assignments, Colonel Kamanin held a staff role in Central Asia, setting up 17 training facilities and shaping up fresh air force units.

1941

On 25 August 1941, in agreement with the United Kingdom, Soviet troops crossed the border with Iran, eventually taking control over the northern part of this country.

Kamanin's air brigade provided logistical and reconnaissance support for this operation.

1942

On 20 July 1942, Kamanin was summoned to Moscow to organize, train and lead the newly conceived 292nd Ground Attack Air Division (292 штурмовая дивизия, 292 шад).

1960

From 1960 to 1971, General Kamanin was the program manager of the cosmonaut training in the Soviet space program.

He recruited and trained the first generation of cosmonauts, including Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Gherman Titov and Alexei Leonov.

Kamanin was the Soviet Air Force representative to the space program, a proponent of crewed orbital flight and air force influence over the Space Race.

1995

His diaries of this period, published from 1995 to 2001, are among the most important sources documenting the progress of the Soviet space program.

Nikolai Kamanin was born in Melenki, in Vladimir Governorate (now Melenkovsky District, Vladimir Oblast).

Kamanin's grandfather was a wealthy shoemaker with his own workshop; however, his father, Pyotr Kamanin, broke with tradition and joined the Bolsheviks.