The best advanced pilot training courses in the country: what contribution the republic made to the development of USSR aviation

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Leonid Sumarokov, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Director of the Center for Historical and Cultural Heritage of KRSU

During the Great Patriotic War, the Odessa Pilot School was relocated to Soviet Kyrgyzstan. Everything in our country contributed to graduates becoming truly serious specialists: training here could take place in the conditions of the plains and in the conditions of the mountains; in addition, Kyrgyzstan had a deep rear. Later, the Odessa Pilot School transformed into the Fifth Central Course for the Training and Improvement of Aviation Personnel, which brought together students from more than 50 countries. More details