Born on May 23, 1916 in the village of Setukha, now Zalegoshchensky district of the Oryol region, in a peasant family. Graduated from high school. In 1936 he graduated from the Kherson Aviation Pilot School of Osoaviakhim. Then for a long time he worked as a pilot instructor in flying clubs in Dnepropetrovsk, Cheboksary and Grozny. Since 1941 in the Red Army.

Since September 1941 in the active army. In 1943 he completed advanced training courses for officers.

By March 1944, the squadron commander of the 943rd Assault Aviation Regiment (277th Assault Aviation Division, 13th Air Army, Leningrad Front), Captain G.M. Parshin, made 138 combat missions to attack enemy concentrations of manpower and equipment. On August 19, 1944, for the courage and bravery shown in battles with enemies, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

By February 1945, he made another 96 combat missions to attack enemy positions. On April 19, 1945, the commander of the 943rd Assault Aviation Regiment, Major G.M. Parshin, was awarded the second Gold Star medal.

Since 1946, Major G.M. Parshin has been in reserve. He worked in the Civil Air Fleet, then as a test pilot. Awarded the Order of Lenin (twice), the Red Banner (four times), Suvorov 3rd degree, Alexander Nevsky, Patriotic War 1st degree, medals and a foreign order. Died on March 13, 1956 while on duty. He was buried in Moscow, where a street was named after him. The bronze bust was installed in the village of Zalegoshch, Oryol region.

A rare photograph taken by pilot Georsh Parshin on March 1, 1944 has been preserved. This photo is a brilliant evidence of Parshin’s accuracy. The photo shows a German tank engulfed in fire. With a well-aimed blow, Parshin set it on fire, and then, as he said, “for the record,” he clicked on the film.

It is difficult to say whether Georgy Mikhailovich managed to take photographs of all the tanks he destroyed, but it is known for sure that in addition to the one that burned on March 1, 1944, he burned 10 more.

Best of the day

Georgy Parshin very quickly became one of the best attack pilots in our Air Force. So, if usually attack aircraft were above the battlefield for about 20 - 25 minutes and made only 2 - 3 attacks, more experienced pilots, such as G. M. Parshin, G. M. Mylnikov, V. A. Aleksenko and others, carried out 5 - 6 attacks each and “hung” over the battlefield for up to 35 minutes.

When, presenting the pilot for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the regiment commander summed up the results of his attack flights, the numbers turned out to be respectable. In addition to 11 tanks, Parshin destroyed more than 80 carriages and 6 locomotives, blew up several enemy ammunition depots, suppressed the fire of more than 50 batteries, and smashed over 100 German vehicles on the roads.

On June 9, 1944, Georgy Parshin made the first flight in a new aircraft - an attack aircraft, on the side of which was written: “Revenge of the Barinovs.” This aircraft was built at the expense of mother and daughter - Praskovya Vasilievna and Evgenia Petrovna Barinov and was presented to Captain Parshin as the best pilot of the division. The Barinov mother and daughter, who worked during the war in the 27th clinic of the Oktyabrsky district of Leningrad, contributed the values ​​they inherited to the defense fund and asked to build an airplane that would be called “The Barinovs’ Revenge.”

They, Leningrad women who suffered all the horrors of the blockade, had something to take revenge for. Praskovya Vasilievna’s son died in 1942 at the front, her husband died of hunger. The patriots presented their gift to the famous pilot of the Leningrad Front, Georgy Parshin, and he honorably justified the trust placed in him.

Georgy took revenge not only for the Leningraders. He also had his own personal scores to settle with the enemy. His family was also in trouble. In the Oryol region, the Germans burned his native village of Setukha and shot his father. Thus, the personal grief of individual Soviet people was intertwined with the suffering and anger of the entire people. And this caused fierce hatred of fascism. Georgy Mikhailovich Parshin fought on this machine for himself, for the Barinovs, for his people...

Captain Parshin taught his subordinates to deliver extremely accurate strikes against enemy targets. By the end of the war, having personally shot down 10 enemy aircraft in air battles, he became one of the best Aces among attack aircraft pilots.

One day, six German fighters managed to shoot down his plane. The pilot, finding himself in territory occupied by the enemy, continued to fight. Wounded, he did not sit out in the forest. Together with the air gunner, Parshin went out to the road. Here they killed a German officer riding a motorcycle. Then they quietly approached three enemy sappers who were digging a trench, disarmed them and captured them. With three "tongues" Parshin and the shooter crossed the front line.

On August 19, 1944, Parshin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. And exactly 8 months later - April 19, 1945 - he was awarded the second Gold Star.

After the war, Georgy Mikhailovich worked in civil aviation, then became a test pilot.

", the charming cat Snowball from the cartoon "Stuart Little" - these characters are known all over the world. For the Russian viewer, People's Artist of Russia Sergei Parshin breathed life into them, or rather the voice. The recognized stage master is adored by fans of the Alexandrinsky Theater; his photo is posted on the website in the leading artists section.

Fans of dynamic stories are familiar with Sergei Ivanovich as the father of the main character in the drama “Shadowboxing”, General Remezov from the popular series “Albanian Alias”, and the owner of the auto repair shop Valery Shaakhov from the first season of “Streets of Broken Lanterns”. Even the scoundrels performed by Parshin turn out to be soft and charming in their own way.

Childhood and youth

Sergei was born into a family in which no one had anything to do with art. Mother Sofya Petrovna is from Smolensk, father Ivan Dmitrievich is from the Oryol region, he served in naval aviation. In 1948, when shale deposits were discovered in Estonia, young people from all over the Union went to work in the mines. The parents met in the city of Kokhtla-Jarve, Sergei was born in 1952, and six years later his brother Alexander was born.

According to the actor’s recollections, his parents worked a lot, and household chores fell on Sergei’s shoulders. It was at that time that he learned to cook well. In addition, the future actor read a lot, played sports - football, boxing, basketball, skied, stood in the hockey goal.

Mining boys collected collections from pieces of slate, on which imprints of prehistoric plants and birds were preserved. Sergei had one too. Parshin later tried to convey memories of the life of miners and their hard work in the film “Mirror for a Hero.”

The acting biography was predetermined by chance. On the instructions of a teacher of Russian language and literature, Parshin learned a poem, the subsequent reading of which shocked the teacher and the class. For the next lesson, the class teacher invited a teacher from the theater studio, which Sergei Ivanovich compared with. The woman literally brought the boy into the studio by the scruff of the neck.

Subsequently, Parshin played everything that was possible on the school stage, and as a result, plans to enter the Institute of Physical Education were not destined to come true. “Dietrich” said in an impatient tone that the young man should go to theater school. Sergei chose the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. The student was incredibly lucky - he ended up on a course with the greats and Irina Meyerhold.

Theater

Immediately after graduation, Parshin was invited to the troupe of the Academic Drama Theater named after, on the stage of which he played more than 80 roles. One of the first successes was the image in the production based on the fairy tale by Carl Gozzi “The Green Bird”. The young artist’s comedic talent and thirst for entertainment were fully revealed in him.

The actor has a wide performing range: Jordan from Airport, Borkin in Chekhov's Ivanov, Skotinin in Minor, Philurg in Aristophanes' Lysistrata.

For the role of the Mayor in The Government Inspector directed by Valery Fokin, Sergei Parshin was awarded the Golden Spotlight and the State Prize of Russia. For the embodiment of the character of taxi driver Nikolai in the play “Izotov” based on the play by Mikhail Durnenkov, the actor received the second “Spotlight”.

Movies

Sergei Parshin's filmography is no less memorable than his theatrical works; the actor did not complain about lack of demand. Sergei Ivanovich played one of the leading roles - His Serene Highness - in the popular television series “Young Russia” about the times of the construction of the Russian fleet.

In the melodrama about the fate of women, “Winter Cherry,” beloved by millions, the artist appeared in the image of a cheerful and rude roommate of one of the main characters, performed by. With another actress from this film - - Sergei worked in the family comedy “Mom will be against” about two already adult young people who are completely dependent on their mothers and are not adapted to life.

Viewers remembered the chemistry teacher from the TV series “Pure Sample,” whom Parshin described as a “cute nit.”

“It’s more interesting to play negative roles, because you delve into yourself in an attempt to somehow justify your character,” said Sergei.

However, for the sake of the theater, Sergei Ivanovich is always ready to give up filming in films. According to him, unlike young people, he has no desire to earn more.

Parshin talks with pleasure about his work on Leningrad Television. Young viewers of the Soviet Union liked its soldier Ivan Varezhkin from the program “Tale after Tale.” The actor very much regretted that when he came to power, “his daughter needed the channel,” and one of the most powerful children’s editorial offices in the country closed.

Personal life

Sergei Parshin’s first wife was classmate Tatyana Astratyeva. For the sake of her husband, the wife sacrificed her own career and devoted her life to her family and raising her sons Ivan and Alexander. She worked a little as an art critic at the House of Fashion Models and, together with Sergei, taught at the theater institute.

Alexander lives abroad, works in the field of computer technology. followed in the footsteps of his parents, now he is the star of the series “Sea Devils”. The grandchildren from his first marriage - Evgenia and Kolya - live with their mother in Germany; a son, Andrei, was born into Ivan’s second family.

Sergey Parshin and his wife Natalya Kutasova

Tatyana died of cancer in 2006, and before her death she asked her husband not to be alone. Two years later, Sergei Ivanovich married the actress of the Theater on Vasilyevsky Natalya Kutasova. The artists had heard about each other before, greeted each other when they met, and became close on the set of the film “Love under Supervision,” in which they played the parents of Natalya Shamina, who played the main role.

Sergey Parshin now

In the melodrama “Labyrinths” about a woman who dreams of having a child and her husband, who already has an heir from his mistress, Sergei Parshin played the father of the main character Maria. Arkady Mikhailovich, a high-ranking official, puts pressure on Sergei's son-in-law, so he cannot leave his wife and reunite with his beloved woman and son. Parshin played the on-screen wife.

In March 2018, the premiere of the family saga “One Life for Two” took place with the participation of Sergei Ivanovich. The plot is based on the novel “Black and White Dance” by Anna and Sergei Litvinov. The narrative covers the life of several generations of two families from the Great Patriotic War to the 80s. Sergei played the main role of the aged Yegor Kapitonov.

Filmography

• 1980 – “Young Russia”
• 1985 – “Winter Cherry”
• 1987 – “Mirror for the Hero”
• 1992 – “June 22, exactly at 4 o’clock”
• 1993 – “Makarov”
• 1997 – “Streets of Broken Lanterns”
• 2004 – “Death of an Empire”
• 2005 – “Shadowboxing”
• 2013 - “Mom will be against”
• 2017 – “Labyrinths”
• 2018 – “One life for two”

Born on May 23, 1916 in the village of Setukha, now Zalegoshchensky district of the Oryol region, in a peasant family. Graduated from high school. In 1936 he graduated from the Kherson Aviation Pilot School of Osoaviakhim, and then from the Higher Parachute School. He worked as an instructor pilot in flying clubs in Dnepropetrovsk, Cheboksary and Grozny. Since 1941 in the ranks of the Red Army.

Since January 25, 1942 in the active army. He fought on the Western, North Caucasian, Leningrad and 3rd Belorussian fronts. He was a flight commander, a squadron commander, a navigator, and then an air regiment commander. In 1943 he completed advanced training courses for officers.

By March 1944, the squadron commander of the 943rd Assault Aviation Regiment (277th Assault Aviation Division, 13th Air Army, Leningrad Front), Captain G. M. Parshin, made 138 combat missions to attack enemy concentrations of manpower and equipment. On August 19, 1944, for the courage and bravery shown in battles with enemies, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

By February 1945, he made another 96 combat missions to attack enemy positions. On April 19, 1945, the commander of the 943rd Assault Aviation Regiment, Major G.M. Parshin, was awarded the second Gold Star medal.

Since 1946, Major G.M. Parshin has been in reserve. He worked in the Civil Air Fleet, then as a test pilot. Died on March 13, 1956 while on duty. He was buried in Moscow, where a street was named after him.

Awarded the orders of Lenin (twice), Red Banner (four times), Suvorov 3rd degree, Alexander Nevsky, Patriotic War 1st degree; medals and foreign orders. The bronze bust was installed in the village of Zalegoshch, Oryol region.

A rare photograph taken by pilot Georsh Parshin on March 1, 1944 has been preserved. This photo is a brilliant evidence of Parshin’s accuracy. The photograph shows a German tank engulfed in flames. With a well-aimed blow, Parshin set it on fire, and then, as he said, “for the record,” he clicked on the film.

It is difficult to say whether Georgy Mikhailovich managed to take photographs of all the tanks he destroyed, but it is known for sure that in addition to the one that burned on March 1, 1944, he burned 10 more.

Georgy Parshin very quickly became one of the best attack pilots in our Air Force. So, if attack aircraft were usually above the battlefield for about 20-25 minutes and made only 2-3 attacks, more experienced pilots, such as G. M. Parshin, G. M. Mylnikov, V. A. Aleksenko and others, carried out 5-6 attacks and “hung” over the battlefield for up to 35 minutes.

When, presenting the pilot for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the regiment commander summed up the results of his attack flights, the numbers turned out to be respectable. In addition to 11 tanks, Parshin destroyed more than 80 carriages and 6 locomotives, blew up several enemy ammunition depots, suppressed the fire of more than 50 batteries, and smashed over 100 German vehicles on the roads.

On June 9, 1944, Georgy Parshin made the first flight in a new aircraft - an attack aircraft, on the side of which was written: “Revenge of the Barinovs.” This aircraft was built at the expense of mother and daughter - Praskovya Vasilievna and Evgenia Petrovna Barinov and was presented to Captain Parshin as the best pilot of the division.

The Barinov mother and daughter, who worked during the war in the 27th clinic of the Oktyabrsky district of Leningrad, contributed the values ​​they inherited to the defense fund and asked to build an airplane that would be called “The Barinovs’ Revenge.”

“Let the pilot of our plane not forget about the torment endured by us, the Leningraders,” wrote Praskovya Vasilievna and Evgenia Petrovna Barinov, “Let him not give the enemy peace, either in the air or on the ground! Let him liberate his native land from the fascist hordes!”

They, Leningrad women who suffered all the horrors of the blockade, had something to take revenge for. The war brought them immeasurable grief: in September 1941, their son and brother Victor, who volunteered for the front, died. During the blockade, the head of the family, Pyotr Ivanovich Barinov, died. The women were left alone. It was they who did not lose heart: they bravely endured the death of those closest to them, bombing, artillery shelling, hunger and cold. Barely able to stand on their feet from exhaustion and physical fatigue, they returned the wounded to duty. Then they made another contribution to the victory over the hated enemy: they gave all their savings to the construction of a combat aircraft. Another thing is noteworthy: in 1919, my grandfather, Ivan Mikhailovich Barinov, did the same. He then transferred to the Red Army fund everything that he had accumulated over many years.

The patriots presented their gift to the famous pilot of the Leningrad Front, Georgy Parshin, and he honorably justified the trust placed in him.

Georgy took revenge not only for the Leningraders. He also had his own personal scores to settle with the enemy. His family was also in trouble. In the Oryol region, the Germans burned his native village of Setukha and shot his father. Thus, the personal grief of individual Soviet people was intertwined with the suffering and anger of the entire people. And this caused fierce hatred of fascism. Georgy Mikhailovich Parshin fought on this machine for himself, for the Barinovs, for his people... In the photo: Praskovya Vasilievna Barinova gives Parshin a personalized Il-2 attack aircraft. In the center is her daughter Evgenia.

Captain Parshin taught his subordinates to deliver extremely accurate strikes against enemy targets. By the end of the war, having personally shot down 10 enemy aircraft in air battles, he became one of the best aces among attack aircraft pilots.

One day, six German fighters managed to shoot down his plane. The pilot, finding himself in territory occupied by the enemy, continued to fight. Wounded, he did not sit out in the forest. Together with the air gunner, Parshin went out to the road. Here they killed a German officer riding a motorcycle. Then they quietly approached three enemy sappers who were digging a trench, disarmed them and captured them. With three “tongues” Parshin and the shooter crossed the front line.

Receiving the plane from the Leningrad patriots, Parshin said that he would try to end the war with it and finish off the enemy in his lair. And the pilot kept his word! After the Vyborg operation, he crushed enemies in the Baltic states, fought in the skies over East Prussia, and stormed Königsberg. On the Leningrad Front alone, G. M. Parshin, accompanying tanks and infantry, smashing fascist headquarters and communications, destroyed 10 aircraft, the same number of locomotives, more than 60 cars, 11 tanks, suppressed 56 batteries, and destroyed about 120 enemy vehicles.

On August 19, 1944, for the battles on the Karelian Isthmus, Parshin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. And exactly 8 months later - on April 19, 1945 - he was awarded the second Gold Star.

After the war, Georgy Mikhailovich worked in civil aviation, then became a test pilot.

Lightning under the wing

The glory of a brave and tireless attack pilot came to Georgy Parshin with his first flights on the Leningrad Front. Looking somewhat older than his years, short, swift, with sweeping movements, with a golden forelock stubbornly falling onto his forehead, it seemed that he could not exist outside of battle.

“I have my own scores to settle with the Nazis,” Parshin once said to his military friends. “They burned my village Setukha near Orel, burned down my house, tracked down my partisan father and shot him...

But Georgy Parshin’s heart was filled with especially acute pain and indignation at the thought of what besieged Leningrad was suffering. He, a warrior who had seen death closely at the front, still could not think without shuddering about the torture of hunger and cold to which the inhabitants of the heroic city were subjected, about the daily shelling of Leningrad by enemy mortar and artillery batteries.

“We must detect and suppress enemy firing points,” Parshin told the pilots of his squadron, setting off on a combat mission one January day in 1944.

As always in moments of great emotional excitement, he pronounced the words quickly and abruptly. Parshin approached his attack aircraft. Already, as a squadron commander, he fought in the North Caucasus in this vehicle. I have been flying it on the Leningrad Front for more than six months now. He loved his plane for its maneuverability and excellent weapons.

Throwing up thick clouds of snow dust, the stormtroopers took off from the ground with a roar. Parshin flew at the head of the squadron. The outlines of Leningrad are becoming clearer. And, peering at them, Parshin understood with particular clarity that by defending Leningrad, he was defending everything that the country had given him, a peasant boy. Here is Leningrad - white, illuminated by flashes of explosions of enemy shells, but still just as majestic, invincibly beautiful. The Pulkovo heights stood out clearly on the horizon. Parshin led the squadron to Pushkin, from where, according to the surveillance service, long-range batteries of the Nazis were fired. Soon fireballs flashed near the very wings of the planes. Front line!

The planes gained altitude. Light stratus clouds hid the ground from the pilots. Parshin led the squadron out of the clouds above the area where the guns that hit Leningrad were located. Hollows, mounds - everything is covered with snow. Nothing can be seen below. But suddenly a short lightning flashed just under the wings. Weapon!..

The stormtroopers began their attack. Through the glass of the cockpit, the pilot saw the white, snow-covered ground approaching the plane. His keen eye clearly discerned a slightly darkened square in the snow. A quick press of the fingers on the small glowing buttons, and shells and bombs came off the plane. Almost at the very ground, Parshin brought the car out of its dive and gained altitude again. He led the squadron into a new attack, and only when below, in place of the dark square, waves of fire and smoke began to rise and the fascist “point” hitting Leningrad fell silent, he gave the command to return home.

The offensive began on the Leningrad Front. Parshin led his squadron on the course Krasnoe Selo - Ropsha. Thick snow clouds pinned the planes to the ground. Wet snow covered the car windows. But even through the whitish darkness, the pilot’s sharp gaze discerned the target - enemy tanks firing at our tanks. He caught the turret of the lead tank in his crosshairs and, diving, dropped the first bombs on it. Parshin photographed the largest fire that arose on the site of the lead tank, and, returning to his airfield, reported to the regiment commander that the target had been destroyed.

When the commander answered him: “Take a break,” Georgy exclaimed: “What kind of respite can there be when such things are happening?!”

Parshin again flew out with his squadron to attack German tanks for the second, third, then fourth, and already at dawn of a new day - for the fifth time. That’s how he flew on the first day, and that’s how he flew on all subsequent days of the offensive...

- Finally! - he exclaimed joyfully, having received the task of destroying the last batteries striking Leningrad. He was the first to put his attack aircraft into a dive and drop bombs on enemy batteries. The Nazi shells exploded near our planes. But Parshin, skillfully maneuvering between the fireballs of the explosions, led his attack aircraft on a second approach. Then - more... When the last enemy guns turned into piles of metal, he breathed a sigh of relief. Soviet tanks entered Krasnoe Selo.

And in the evening, in one of the country dachas where the pilots lived, Georgy shared his impressions of the combat day with his friend Andrei Kizima.

“Here we are advancing,” he said. “Soon I will find my mother in the Oryol region, and you will find your brother in Ukraine.”

“We’ll definitely find it,” Andrey smiled.

There is no friendship in the world stronger and more selfless than the friendship of people who together faced mortal danger. Such selfless front-line friendship connected Georgy Parshin with Andrey. Often, when heavy snow clouds covered the sky and it was impossible to even imagine how one could fly a plane in such weather, Parshin and Kizima flew out together on reconnaissance. During one of the reconnaissance missions, when the pilots had already finished photographing enemy fortifications near Kingisepp, an exploding anti-aircraft shell pierced the plane and tail of Kizima’s plane.

“Stay closer to me, Andrei,” Parshin shouted to him over the radio. - Not far from the front line. We'll make it!

And two attack aircraft, one unharmed, the other with a broken wing and a damaged tail, huddled close to each other, as if connected by some invisible threads, flew across the front line... And where the fireballs of enemy shells began to burst in their path, Parshin’s plane covered his friend’s wounded car with its wing.

And then a new morning, and both commanders led the squadrons to attack a large group of German tanks. When leaving the attack, 6 blunt-nosed German Focke-Wulf-190 fighters jumped out from behind a cloud.

- Fight off the Fokkers! - Parshin shouted to his shooter Bondarenko. And as if in response to his command, the enemy fighter turned over in the air and, shrouded in smoke, went towards the ground. Everything that happened next happened at lightning speed: another fighter rushed towards Parshin’s attack aircraft, but at the same moment a long machine-gun burst from Kizima’s attack aircraft fell on it. The second Focke-Wulf, breaking into pieces, flew to the ground.

Parshin hit the tanks again. His plane shook violently, and the gunner’s machine gun fell silent. It was clear that his attack aircraft was hit and the shooter was wounded. Another shell hit the control rudders. Acute pain burned Parshin's face and right hand. He hardly brought the attack aircraft into horizontal flight. Just to reach the front line! Just 10 kilometers, no more. But fascist fighters stubbornly pursued him. The control rudders were no longer subordinate to the pilot. Acrid smoke enveloped the cabin, and the ground was approaching with terrible speed. The forest was black below...

Parshin did not return from the flight. But the very idea that he could die seemed implausible in the regiment, and neither the commander nor the pilots left the airfield until late at night, waiting for Georgy to arrive any moment. It was already dark, the technicians had camouflaged the vehicles for the night, but Parshin and his shooter Bondarenko were not there.

On this day, the regiment received several new aircraft. One of them especially attracted the attention of the pilots. On the right side of its fuselage there was an inscription in large red letters: “Revenge of the Barinovs”, on the left - “For Leningrad”. As the command reported, this machine was built at the expense of two Leningrad Barinovs - Praskovya Vasilievna and her daughter Evgenia Petrovna - employees of one of the Leningrad clinics. They contributed their savings to the State Bank for the construction of the attack aircraft. In a letter to the regiment, the patriots asked to give this attack aircraft to the bravest pilot. And the thoughts of the pilots again and again turned to Parshin. Now, if he came back, they would give him a gift!..

Tired, with bloody bandages on their faces, with abrasions and burns, Parshin and Bondarenko entered the KP dugout.

- George! - Kizima exclaimed, rushing to his friend.

“Thank you for the downed Fokker, otherwise, who knows, maybe I wouldn’t have returned…” said Parshin. And immediately his abrupt voice sounded in the dugout, reporting to the commander:

“Our attack aircraft, set on fire by German fighters, fell into the forest. The trees absorbed the shock. We managed to jump out! The plane exploded... We met scouts in the forest. Let's go with them to get the "language." They helped us.

And, having finished the report, he asked the commander:

- What kind of car will I fly in tomorrow, Comrade Major?

When discussing the question of who to give the “Barinov’s Revenge” attack aircraft, the unit’s command chose Georgy Mikhailovich Parshin.

The pilot was finishing his inspection of the new aircraft when news spread across the airfield:

- The Barinovs have arrived! The owners of the plane have arrived!

Together with the regiment commander, they approached the plane.

“Comrade Major, allow me to fly with them over Leningrad,” Parshin unexpectedly turned to the commander.

Having received permission, Georgy seated the Barinovs in the gunner’s cockpit and, as carefully as he could, lifted the attack aircraft off the ground. He flew with his passengers over the silvery bend of the Neva, over the avenues of the city. Then he turned the car towards the airfield and carefully drove it to land.

The Barinovs spent the whole day with the friendly family of pilots. Never has any car been as dear to Parshin as this one. She was for him a symbol of the inextricable connection and unity of the people with their army. He asked the regimental artist to draw on the left side of the fuselage, next to the inscription “For Leningrad,” the outline of the Peter and Paul Fortress and an arrow. On the right side, next to the inscription “Revenge of the Barinovs,” there are four red stars - the count of the planes he shot down.

And although, as Georgy said, an attack aircraft does not always get such a holiday to shoot down an enemy plane, however, on his first flight on a new plane, while taking a “walk” to reconnaissance of an enemy airfield, he saw a long plane with a blue blue jump out from under his wing. swastika on the fuselage. Finnish scout! Pressing the triggers of machine guns and cannons, and the enemy plane went to the ground. On this day, a fifth red star appeared on the Barinovs' Revenge plane.

The front line moved further and further from Leningrad. Parshin's squadron waged continuous battles. Georgy looked for enemy vehicles, tanks, self-propelled guns and, diving at the target, destroyed it. He attacked enemy airfields precisely when there were the most aircraft there. Not allowing them to take off, he dropped his devastating load onto the enemy’s airfield until it turned into a raging sea of ​​fire.

Parshin always appeared where his help was most needed. Telegrams and letters from infantrymen, artillerymen, and tankmen began to arrive addressed to the regiment commander. They all thanked the pilot for his help in the battle. “We recognize his plane from the ground,” they wrote. And in August 1944, shortly before Aviation Day, a huge event happened in Parshin’s life. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

The regiment commander gave him a day to rest. Parshin decided to fly to Leningrad. Carefully peering at the features of the hero city, he walked along the cleanly tidied streets, along Theater Square, past the building of the Opera and Ballet Theater named after S. M. Kirov, damaged by a fascist bomb and already standing in the woods. Then he turned onto Maklin Avenue, found the house he needed, and knocked on the Barinovs’ apartment. They greeted him as if they were their own. They talked for a long time that evening.

“I have two dreams,” Parshin told them. — The first is to fly on your plane all the way to Berlin and pay off the Nazis for everything that the Leningraders suffered. And the second is to return alive to Leningrad...

The offensive of the troops of the Leningrad Front became more and more rapid. Now Georgy Parshin’s squadron flew over the cities, villages and farmsteads of Soviet Estonia. Enjoying smoking a strong cigarette after dinner, Parshin stood on the porch of the log house in which the squadron commanders lived. Exposing his hot face to the fresh, damp wind, he looked at the white huts of the Estonian peasants nearby, barely illuminated by the moon. They begin to live again. They are establishing their economy.

Suddenly, strong salvos were heard from the direction of the airfield.

- Tallinn has been taken! Tallinn taken! — someone’s excited voice reached his ears. And at the same time, someone thrust a letter into his hand in a large homemade envelope. He read it immediately by the light of a flashlight.

“They built me ​​a new house instead of the one burned by the Nazis. When will you arrive, son? At least for a day I escaped to my homeland,” George’s mother wrote. And in the night, illuminated by the flashes of festive rockets, he clearly saw her - hunched over, gray-haired, thinking about him day and night, day and night... He saw his village of Setukha as it used to be - with apple and pear orchards, log huts surrounded by freshly painted fences, golden waves of grain on the collective farm fields... He went to his room and wrote on a piece of notebook in a sweeping hand:

“Wait a little longer, mom. Today we took Tallinn! There are only a few hours left, and we will liberate all of Estonia. Soon I will be fighting in Germany. And then go home.”

The attack aircraft landed at the last airfield recaptured from the Nazis before the maintenance teams had time to deliver fuel and ammunition there.

- That's it, eagles! — Parshin approached his pilots. - An urgent order has been received to cover our landing force during the landing on Dago Island!

- What will we fly on? We don’t even have anything to fill our cars with! — the pilots became worried.

“Nothing,” Parshin said confidently, “I’ve already agreed with the commander.” One six will be led by Kizima, the other by me. We will pour the remaining fuel from the tanks of all cars into our planes. Let's take all the remaining shells. Don't worry that the set is incomplete!..

The Soviet boats were already at sea when two groups of attack aircraft appeared above them. And immediately, from the darkening island of Dago ahead, enemy guns opened fire on the boats. Near the very sides, raising the water high, several shells exploded. Parshin and Kizima rushed to the island and sharply dived onto two batteries hitting the boats. The batteries went silent. But Parshin knew that as soon as the boats approached the island, the batteries would open fire on them again. To ensure the success of the landing, you need to outwit the enemy.

— Place your six in the defensive circle. “I’ll put mine in too,” he said on the radio to Kizima. - We will attack empty. Save the shells for emergencies!

And two groups of attack aircraft, led by their commanders, circled over the enemy positions. Diving more and more steeply towards the batteries, they made approach after approach, paralyzing the will of the enemy with the swiftness of their attacks. Only when all the paratroopers landed on the island did the last shells of Soviet attack aircraft fall on the enemy batteries.

During the days of the battles for the liberation of Soviet Estonia, Major Georgy Mikhailovich Parshin was appointed commander of the regiment. Parshin knew what a huge responsibility fell on his shoulders. And he devoted all his experience, all his strength to the cause of victory.

Together with other aviation units of the Leningrad Front, the attack aircraft flew to the borders of East Prussia. The fighting went in the direction of Königsberg. Parshin and his pilots broke through the Nazi barriers and, losing count of attacks, stormed the most stubborn targets, destroyed guns, trains, and set fire to tanks that were trying to stop the movement of Soviet troops.

On one of the most intense days of the offensive, he gathered the squadron commanders at the command post.

“A large German group southwest of Koenigsberg is pressed to the sea by our troops,” he explained the new task to the pilots. “We must prevent the group from moving to the port of Pillau.” Together with artillery we will hit all floating craft. I warn you, we will drop time bombs so that the planes are not hit by the blast wave, we will fly low.

The attack aircraft approached the port of Rosenberg as dozens of barges, boats, makeshift rafts and boats sailed from the port, trying to reach the spit in Frisch Gaff Bay.

“We attack the lead ship,” Parshin ordered his attack aircraft, “We hit with armor-piercing weapons.”

While bringing the plane out of its dive, I saw how bombs broke through the deck. This means that as soon as the attack aircraft repeat the attack and gain altitude, explosions will occur in the holds.

- Now to the barge! Let's hit with shrapnel!

New series of bombs. New climb. New goal - boat! The glow from burning boats and barges was reflected in the water for a long time...

During one of the combat missions to the Goldap area, Andrei Kizima was seriously wounded. On a small training plane, Parshin took his friend to a hospital in Kaunas. After treatment in the hospital, by order of the command, Kizima had to go to a sanatorium. The war was ending for him. In the hospital, sitting near the bed of a wounded friend, Parshin tried not to betray his excitement to the already upset Kizima.

“Why are you upset, Andrey,” he consoled his friend. - After all, you are ending the war not just anywhere, but in East Prussia, in the lair of the beast.

The assault on Koenigsberg, a stronghold of the SS men, began, living out its last hours. The Nazis, surrounded on all sides by Soviet troops, already cut off from the port of Pillau, turned every house into a stronghold. They fired from many guns at the airfields where Soviet pilots were now based, and at the advancing Soviet infantry and tanks. Skillfully maneuvering between the lines of anti-aircraft fire, Parshin dived at the guns hitting the Soviet troops.

He and the squadron commanders were developing a plan for completing the next mission when he was called to the phone and informed that he had been awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the second time! Georgy Parshin's joy was especially complete, since on the same day, April 19, 1945, his friend Andrei Kizima was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

The great day of victory over Nazi Germany has arrived.

“Decorate all the planes with fresh flowers,” Parshin ordered the pilots, “today, on Victory Day, we will make the two thousandth flight of our regiment.”

Over the cities of Germany, attack aircraft flew towards the sun with a large bearing behind their commander. At the command “fire,” the pilots pressed the bomb release buttons, and a multi-colored rain of leaflets fell from the spring sky onto the streets of German cities, in which the Soviet command announced the complete surrender of Nazi Germany.

A small communications plane delivered mail and newspapers to the airfield. Having opened the May Day issue of the army newspaper, Parshin saw the Barinovs’ letter to him published there.

“Dear Georgy Mikhailovich! Congratulations on your great award. You are now twice Hero of the Soviet Union. We are proud of this. It is very pleasant that, while fighting on the plane “Revenge of the Barinovs,” you became such a famous person. It's spring in Leningrad. The sky is clear, not a cloud, and the sun is starting to get hot. It is joyful to watch our Leningrad blossom. On the streets you will no longer see shop windows boarded up with boards and covered with sand. Today it was announced that blackouts will be canceled and 24-hour traffic around the city will be allowed during the May days. How our Leningrad will shine, reflecting so many lights in the Neva!”

That evening Parshin wrote to Leningrad:

“Good afternoon, dear owners of my beloved car, on which I finished the battle with Nazi Germany. I received your letter via Combat Alert. Thank you very much. During the war, I made 253 attack missions, of which more than 100 missions were in the vehicle you donated, I stormed enemy fortresses, burned tanks, sank barges, and shot down enemy planes in air battles.

Congratulations on your victory. Soon I hope to fly to you on my winged one, on which is written “The Barinovs’ Revenge” and ten stars are drawn. This means that during the Patriotic War I shot down ten fascist pirates in air battles. I give my word as a Bolshevik pilot that I will give all my strength and abilities to further strengthen our aviation, and if I have to face the enemies of our Motherland again in battle, then I will fight just as steadfastly for the happiness of the great Soviet people, for the cause of Lenin’s party.”

Having smoothly run along the runway, the attack aircraft “Revenge of the Barinovs” easily took off from the airfield. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Major Georgy Parshin headed from one of the German airfields to Leningrad. The pilot's hand lay calmly on the steering wheel. Under the wings of his plane floated the land, our own, Soviet, dear, liberated from foreign invasion and already gaining strength for its new flourishing. The land on which human happiness was established. And he was called upon to protect this happiness.

Lyudmila Popova

(From the collection materials - “People of Immortal Feat”. Volume 2. Moscow 1975.)

1916 — 1956

Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (08/19/1944, 04/19/1945), test pilot, major.
Born on May 23 (10th century), 1916 in the village of Setukha, now Zalegoshchensky district, Oryol region, in a peasant family. Russian. Member of the CPSU(b)/CPSU since 1942. He worked as a mechanic at a factory. In 1936 he graduated from the Kherson School of Civil Air Fleet Instructor Pilots, and then the Higher Parachute School. He worked as an instructor pilot in flying clubs in the cities of Dnepropetrovsk, Cheboksary, and Grozny.
In the army since 1941. In 1941 - instructor pilot of the 28th reserve aviation regiment.
Participated in the Great Patriotic War from January 1942 as a pilot in the 65th Assault Aviation Regiment (Central Front). In December 1942-April 1943 - flight commander, deputy commander of the aviation squadron of the 765th assault aviation regiment (North Caucasus Front). In 1943 he graduated from Lipetsk advanced training courses for officers. Since August 1943 - commander of the air squadron of the 943rd attack aviation regiment (Leningrad Front).
For the courage and heroism shown in battles with the Nazi invaders, the commander of the air squadron of the 943rd Attack Aviation Regiment, Captain Georgy Mikhailovich Parshin, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on August 19, 1944, with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. "(No. 4345).
At the final stage of the war, he was assistant commander for the air rifle service, navigator and commander of the 943rd assault aviation regiment (Leningrad and 3rd Belorussian fronts). In total, during the war, he carried out 253 combat missions on the Il-2 attack aircraft to attack concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment; its crew shot down 10 enemy aircraft in air battles.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 19, 1945, the commander of the 943rd assault aviation regiment, Major Georgy Mikhailovich Parshin, was awarded the second Gold Star medal (No. 40).
After the war, he commanded a regiment in the Leningrad Military District. Since 1946 - in reserve.
He worked as a pilot in the transport detachment of the Ministry of Aviation Industry.
In 1950-1951 - test pilot at aircraft plant No. 30 (Moscow); tested production Il-28 bombers.
On August 26, 1951, Parshin had an accident while testing the Il-28 jet bomber. The crew had to eject, the commander suffered a serious spinal injury, and the navigator and radio operator died.
After a long treatment, he was cleared to fly only on aircraft with dual controls.
Since 1952 – test pilot at the Scientific Testing Institute of Aircraft Equipment; was involved in testing various systems and equipment on aircraft.
He died on March 13, 1956 while performing a test flight on an Il-28 aircraft.
B.A. Lopukhov recalls:
“One clear winter morning, Parshin asked me for permission to go to his friends at the Flight Research Institute. And two hours later, a pilot I knew came to me and was dumbfounded:
— Zhorka crashed on a plane...
- How?! We don't have flights!
It turned out that friends persuaded Georgy to do some filming on an Il-28 plane. It was apparently inconvenient for the Hero to refuse twice, although he was completely unprepared for the flight. Result: for an unknown reason, at an altitude of three thousand meters, the plane went into a dive..."
Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union A.A. Shcherbakov. (second graduate of the School of Test Pilots 1951-1953) at that time mainly flew to film tests. Like any novice tester, he was looking forward to the opportunity to replace someone on a complex machine. On this day, an opportunity presented itself. He was allowed to fly on a high-speed fighter... And when he returned, intoxicated by the first flight in a new machine, he was told what had happened.
“Parshin replaced him during filming and crashed, barely rising above the airfield... He had barely gained altitude when the car turned over and went into the ground almost at a right angle. Halfway there it began to level out, but it was too late, and it hit so hard that the engines flew out of the wing two hundred meters..."
Together with G.M. Parshin, the following died on the Il-28: cameraman Rostovtsev, radio operator S.P. Goryunov. They were supposed to film the MiG-19 refueling from the Tu-16.
Lived in Moscow. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.
Awarded the Order of Lenin (1944), 4 Orders of the Red Banner (1943, January 1944, July 1944, 1945), Order of Suvorov 3rd degree (1945), Order of Alexander Nevsky (1944), Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree (1943), medals , foreign order.
A street in Moscow is named after him. The bronze bust was installed in the village of Zalegoshch, Oryol region. There is a memorial plaque installed on the house where he lived in Moscow.

Information sources:

• "AVIATION". Encyclopedia / Scientific publishing house "Big Russian Encyclopedia", TsAGI named after prof. NOT. Zhukovsky. Moscow, 1994 /
• “The past has no options” / B. Lopukhov, “Air transport” No. 33-34 1994 /
• “About those who go to heaven” / A. Merkulov, DOSAAF Publishing House. Moscow, 1968 /
• Parshin Georgy Mikhailovich / Heroes of the Country /

Helped:

• V.P.Tarasenko
• A.A.Simonov