Discussions on the creation in the region of a forge of aircrew for the Central Asian republics have been conducted at different levels for several years. Turdakun Usubaliev, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, expressed this proposal more than once in Moscow. However, the decision of the matter has been postponed several times. And yet, “knock on the sky” successful.
Turdakun Usubaliev was supported by Boris Bugaev, then Minister of Civil Aviation of the USSR. After listening to all the arguments of the leader of Kyrgyzstan, Boris Pavlovich signed an order, which was prescribed in order to meet the increased need to organize a school for the training of aviation specialists in the city of Frunze.
The new educational institution was headed by Ivan Serafimovich Nazarov. He was from Tambov. He wanted to fly since childhood, but at first fate determined another element for him – the sea. He had to serve in Odessa as a sailor of the Black Sea Fleet. However, he did not leave the dream of heaven. After demobilization, Nazarov entered the Voronezh Aviation College named after Chkalov. After graduation, he worked in Zaporizhzhia, Syktyvkar and even in hot Turkmenistan, and moved to Frunze only in 1970. When offered to head the aviation school, Ivan Serafimovich accepted without hesitation. Starting something new and then seeing how the hard work pays off was inherent in his character.
The first class of cadets took place in 1974. Young people from all the Central Asian republics and Azerbaijan came to the capital of Soviet Kyrgyzstan. They were trained in the specialty “technical operation of aircraft and aircraft engines”. The educational institution was first located in a one-story barracks on the outskirts of the city. There was hardly any public transport to get there, but that didn’t bother the cadets. In fact, they found themselves in a state of war – they lived in the barracks and were completely dependent on the state.
Two years later, the first graduation ceremony took place at the school. According to the registration book for the issuance of diplomas, Victor Guivan was the first to receive this document with honors. He was appointed as a mechanical technician in the Frunze United Aviation Squadron. Soon he will begin a rapid rise through the ranks to the deputy head of the political department of the Kyrgyz Civil Aviation Administration.
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The sky is a dream since childhood
Today, a large number of women work in the civil aviation structure in many countries. The ladies master all flight specialties, including aerobatics. Kyrgyzstan is no exception. But it was not always so. When the aviation service in the republic was in its infancy, there was no question of women being among the cadets of the aviation school. Tleukhor Boshumova managed to change the situation. She became one of the first representatives of the fair sex in the Kyrgyz aviation.
“My parents moved to Kyrgyzstan from the Karaganda region in the 1930s,” Tleukhor Boshumova told RG correspondent. – I grew up in the steppe, I grazed horses and camels, and planes flew in the sky. I waved at them and admired the bravery and bravery of the pilots. At the age of 17, I firmly decided that I would fly. And she wanted to be a pilot, no less. In 1959 she arrived in the town of Frunze. I started skydiving. Somehow, at a bus stop, and this was already in 1964, I made a guess: if the trolleybus goes down to the theater, I will go to the artist, and if to the airport – to aviation. The trolley bus is mounted. I came to take courses in the civil aviation department of the republic. They tell me: recruitment is over, but women are not taken for aerobatics. They offered to become an announcer, that is, to announce landing, check-in, departure. I agreed. She thus became the first civil aviation announcer. And in 1965, I was accepted as a crew member for the position of flight attendant.
In the sky Teuhor has found his happiness. He turned out to be an engineer-pilot of the 1st class of international flights Marat Bektenov. Despite the heroic profession, he did not dare to approach the beautiful Kazakh woman for a long time.
Tleukhor has over 20,000 flight hours. In 1965, she became the first person on an airliner to introduce greetings for passengers in the Kyrgyz language.
In Tleuhor’s Escape Fate, there were many different instances where ingenuity and character were required, and sometimes persistence. So, once she helped give birth in the air.
“The main thing in such moments is not to panic,” recalls Tleukhor Izembekovna. – When one of the passengers started having contractions, we first informed the crew chief. He decided to continue flying. My colleague and I asked the passengers if there was a doctor among them. This does not happen. The delivery was to be taken by the co-pilot. We gathered all the towels, boiled some water, then acted as we were taught. A few hours later, a charming boy was born.
There was another case. A Kyrgyz student, who had to stay in Moscow to take her exams, persuaded Tleukhor to bring a six-month-old baby to Frunze. The young woman assured that in Frunze the grandparents would take the baby from the stewardess. Pleuchor accepted. But no one came to meet the child.
Teleuchor was not surprised. She took a taxi and drove to the home address provided by the student before leaving. Upon arriving, she started knocking on the door. A boy of about seven came out and said the adults weren’t home, they had gone to the market. The boy had to explain at length who it was. After the student’s parents found the stewardess and thanked her warmly.
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The Olkhovskaya shawl
Lyudmila Olkhovskaya gave 47 years to civil aviation, but continues to work today. She didn’t come to work here, but as she herself claims, she got there accidentally. Lyudmila Nikolaevna did not dream of a profession related to aviation. From the age of six, she wanted to become a doctor. I got into medical school on the first try. After graduation, she worked as a doctor in the city hospital N 6.
- I’m probably more of a passenger than a crew member, – said Lyudmila Nikolaevna. – I entered aviation unexpectedly for myself. Once I was sitting with a colleague over lunch, and she suddenly said that the aviation school needed a doctor-teacher and suggested I give it a try. I arrived, introduced myself, and they immediately started enrolling me, even though I had to work the required two weeks at my old location at the clinic. To this, the school principal said, “It’s okay, we’ll wait.”
Today, Lyudmila Nikolaevna is the only specialist in the republic who trains crews to properly provide medical care in the air, including how to do it in extreme conditions. She studied at the Department of Aviation and Space Medicine of the Moscow Postgraduate Medical Education Institute, at the Kirov Military Medical Academy, at the USSR Civil Aviation Academy and at several other educational institutions. teaching in the world, including a series of lectures on – in-flight medical care at the University of Jerusalem. At the lectures of Lyudmila Nikolaevna, cadets sit impatiently. In practical exercises with a special training dummy, every action is fine-tuned down to the smallest detail and seconds.
In addition to the unconditional need to prepare for classes, Lyudmila Nikolaevna demands that her students have one important thing – an ordinary clean handkerchief. It turned out that it is not necessary at all for reasons of personal hygiene. According to the teacher, this small piece of cloth saved many human lives.
- The first rule in carrying out any resuscitation is to ensure the patency of the airways, – explains Lyudmila Olkhovskaya. – You can do it with the same handkerchief. They fix the tongue so that it does not flow, and it is possible to give the victim artificial respiration.
By the way, once in this way a student of Lyudmila Nikolaevna saved the life of a minibus passenger who fell ill. True, the guy was late for class, but since the reason turned out to be valid, the teacher did not get angry. In other cases, iron discipline in lectures is the main rule of Olkhovskaya.
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