Солодовников Леонид Аркадьевич (1958-1994)

He received his initial flight training at the Kurgan DOSAAF Aviation and Sports Club. Upon completion of his studies at the Omsk Aviation Training Center, DOSAAF was appointed to the position of instructor pilot of the Kurgan Aviation Sports Club. He successfully combined the work of an instructor, and then a flight commander, an ASC navigator, with the improvement of personal piloting techniques, taking part in sports competitions in aeronautical sports. A pilot instructor of the 1st class. Master of Sports of the USSR, multiple prize-winner and winner of regional championships, winner of the cup of Twice Hero of the Soviet Union K.A. A talented methodologist. Judge of the republican and All-Union categories. He mastered piloting Yak-12M, Yak-50, Yak-52, Yak-55, An-2, L-29 aircraft, Since 1989 - personal trainer of Svetlana Kapanina. Leonid Solodovnikov managed to convey to the talented athlete an outstanding style of piloting technique, as well as a method of introspection, technical and psychological individual preparation for performing exercises during competitions. Solodovnikov has become a symbol of the tandem of a coach and an athlete. In 1993. Leonid Arkadyevich Solodovnikov was awarded the honorary title of "Honored Coach". "Everything is given to us with a fight, but everything is given to us!" is Leonid's life motto. Solodovnikov's pedagogical talent was awarded four medals to the "Coach of the Champion", and a gold medal to the "Coach of the Champion of the USSR".

In the cockpit L.Solodovnikov, on the wing A. Rukavishnikov

L.Solodovnikov on the left, S.Kapanina, I.Semenov on the right

L.Solodovnikov

Kasum Huseynovich is currently the senior coach of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise NAC of Russia. Chkalova in aeronautical sports, Director of the Borki Aviation Center branch of FSUE NAC of Russia. In the 1960s and 80s, Kasum was in the thick of everything related to aviation and cosmonautics. He has trained hundreds of pilots in aircraft control and training in extreme situations. Legendary pilots and aerobatics aces studied with him — the legendary Vladimir Martemyanov, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, Styapas Artishkevicius, Alexander Lyubartz, Svetlana Kapanina, Khalide Makogonova and many others... He was included among the first candidates for cosmonauts, but was mistakenly eliminated from the squad of future cosmonauts for health reasons even before the first human flight into space. Kasum Gusenovich is still undergoing a medical examination at the Central Civil Aviation Hospital and is flying up for aerobatics. Kasum Gusenovich was born on May 15, 1933 in the village of Gonokh of the Dagestan Republic in a family of rural workers. At the age of 12, Kasum saw an airplane in the sky over Khunzakh for the first time in his life (at that time it was a small PO-2) and at that time a childhood dream "To rise into the sky" was born in his heart. There was no demand for pilots, and farmers, doctors, teachers were considered priority professions - to some extent it was even considered honorable. Therefore, Kasum entered the Dagestan Agricultural Institute, but his childhood dream did not leave him. Therefore, after waiting for military age, he immediately appeared at a meeting of the draft commission with a request to enroll him in flight school.

Thanks to perseverance and perseverance, he passed a medical commission and was sent to a flight school near Poltava. Upon graduation, only 5 cadets passed from the recruited group of 30 people, including Kasum, who subsequently received a diploma with honors and was sent to fighter aviation at the higher military Air School, which he also graduated with honors - becoming a military fighter pilot. He began serving in the air defense forces of Moscow. The beginning of his professional career coincided with Khrushchev's reforms. During the reduction of aviation, Kasum was transferred to Kostroma, very soon he was transferred back to Yaroslavl. During his service in Yaroslavl in 1959, he was invited to an interview by a special commission. According to the results of the interview, Kasum was offered to undergo training for space flight and become the commander of a spacecraft. Two colonels, one from the medical services, the other from the KGB, take a receipt for non-disclosure of the conversation. Kasum received a referral to Moscow, where he began to undergo a thorough medical examination at the central hospital of the USSR Air Force. With suspicion of heart murmurs, which strangely had never been detected in the entire career of the pilot, numerous medical commissions eliminated the pilot from the cosmonaut squad, without having time to include him in it. Then there were further cuts in the Air Force, and it was his turn. I went to Makhachkala. Military pilots were not taken into transport aviation then, especially fighter pilots, they say, they are hooligans in the air, they will pilot in their own way. Nevertheless, he got a job in the Makhachkala aviation squadron on the AN-2. This job was not to his liking and then he received an offer to work in an aviation club, there were also bombers that required pilots. It was in 1961-62. That's how he started working at the Makhachkala Aero Club as an instructor pilot. He worked as a flight commander, then had to prepare the team for competitions in aviation sports, he began to take part in these competitions, was invited to work at the Rostov-on-Don training center, returned to the Makhachkala DOSAAF Aero club, where he took up coaching. Soon he began to take part in all-Union competitions, even winning them. Back then, Kasum and three of his students joined the USSR national air sports team. Since he was still in the army as an officer's pentathlon coach, captain of the volleyball team, then he was offered to become a coach of the USSR national team.