Tarnovsky Mikhail Vasilievich

Tarnovsky Mikhail Vasilievich

Genus. in 1907 in Tsarskoe Selo, from the nobility, my father fought in the White armies. In the fall of 1920, he and his family were evacuated from Crimea. From 1922 he lived in Czechoslovakia. He graduated from high school (1928), civil aviation flight school (1931), Paris Aviation School (1934), and ROA officer courses (1943). In 1932 he received Czechoslovak citizenship. Since the summer of 1934, he has been an instructor at the Pilsen Aero Club. In Oct. 1937 joined the National Labor Union of the New Generation (NTSNP, later - NTS). In 1940-1941 technical controller at Lufthansa. In April 1941, as a Russian, he was dismissed from service, and in June-July 1941 he was interned by the German authorities. Since August 1941 he has been an employee of the radio propaganda service in Berlin. Prepared programs for broadcasting on the USSR; in 1942-1943, announcer at the Fau radio station. In May 1943, he submitted a report on joining the ROA, the head of communications of the ROA Guards Brigade, and a participant in the battles near Pskov. In September 1943, the formation of the 1st Eastern Aviation Squadron was entrusted, which was located at the Ost (East Prussia) intelligence processing center. In December 1943, at the head of the squadron, he went to the front and, as part of the Luftwaffe, participated in battles with Soviet troops. In January - June 1944 he made 36 combat missions. In the summer of 1944 he was removed from office for criticizing occupation policy. In the fall of 1944, he took an active part in the formation of the 1st Aviation Regiment of the Air Force of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), an assignment officer at the headquarters of the commander of the KONR Air Force V.I. Maltseva. One of the founders of the KONR Air Force, commander of training and transport squadrons.
On April 30, 1945, together with the flight personnel of the KONR Air Force, he surrendered to units of the XII American Army Corps. He was not subject to extradition to Soviet representatives (as a non-citizen of the USSR), but, having decided to share the fate of his fellow soldiers, he was sent with them to the Soviet occupation zone, where on August 27, 1945 he was arrested by counterintelligence agencies SMERSH.
12/26/1945 Sentenced to death by the Military Tribunal of the Soviet occupation forces. Shot on October 18, 1946. On June 23, 1999, he was rehabilitated by the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.