Farikh Fabio Brunovich

Genus. in 1896 in St. Petersburg; German (father from the Baltic Germans, mother - English). In 1918-1921 - IN the Red Army. In 1923-1928 he worked as a mechanic in the civil air fleet on Central Asian air lines; in 1928 he graduated from the Moscow school of flight mechanics, transferred to the north, worked in the crew of M. Slepnev on the Irkutsk-Yakutsk line, in 1930 he took part in a flight from Yakutsk to Chukotka in an expedition to search for American pilots Eielson and Borland, who crashed at the end of 1929. In 1930 He graduated from the Moscow Civil Fleet School, in the winter of 1931 he was the first to pave the Krasnoyarsk-Dudinka air route, and in February 1932 he opened the Moscow-Arkhangelsk-Ust-Tsilma route. In 1932, with great climatic and technical difficulties, he transported F. Eichmans from Vaygach Island to Moscow, for which in 1934 he received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. In 1934 - in Chukotka, in 1935-1936 - in the propaganda squadron named after. Gorky, in March 1936, on a 2-engine aircraft "SSSR-R-120", made the Moscow-Amderma-Moscow flight. In February–June 1937, he made the trans-Arctic flight Moscow–Wellen–Moscow on the same plane, for which he was awarded the Order of Lenin on June 17, 1937. In 1937–1938 he took part in the search for the missing S. Levanevsky. During the Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars, he made combat missions and was involved in testing new types of aircraft; in 1944 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. After the war he continued to work on Arctic air routes. In 1948 - pilot of the Moscow Special Purpose Detachment of the Main Northern Sea Route; arrested 06/30/1948; sentenced by OS MGB of the USSR on February 26, 1949 under Art. 58-1a, 10 part 2, 11 to 25 years of correctional labor camp; in 1954 the case was revised, the term was reduced to 10 years in labor camp. He was rehabilitated by the Military Commissariat of the USSR Armed Forces on May 30, 1956, and only after that, on July 26, 1956, he was released and reinstated in his previous job. In 1957, due to health reasons, he left the air fleet. Lived in Moscow, from 1962 to 1975 he worked as a standard setter and then as a watchman at the Krasny Metalist plant. Died 06/02/1985, buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.