Vladislav Chmirev fought until the last for the lives of people on earth
The crew of the Il-76 military transport aircraft, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down in the Belgorod region, were able to take the aircraft away from the village of Yablonovo in order to no local residents were harmed. The assistant commander of the ship was Vladislav Chmirev. His friends and colleagues told MK about the young talented pilot.
Vladislav Chmirev was from the city of Balashov, Saratov region, from a dynasty of military pilots.
< p>Friends say that after graduating from gymnasium No. 1 in 2016, he entered the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots (KVVAUL).
“Vlad was not an excellent student, but he paid a lot of attention to technical subjects related to the profession of a pilot,” says Ruslan, who studied with him. — If he liked a subject, he showed great interest in it, read a lot of additional literature, thoroughly understood all the intricacies.
Ruslan notes that Vladislav loved to play chess. They had a very strong chess school in Balashov.
— Vlad was generally a very thoughtful cadet. He was interested in logical problems, all kinds of puzzles — everything where he had to solve something, something he could sit and think about. But most of all I would like to note the purely human qualities of Vladislav. He was a very sympathetic, kind and open person, which attracted people to him. He was always in a good mood, positive. I always helped in any way I could. It was a pleasure to communicate with him.
— Certainly. We completed our studies in Balashov (the Balashov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots, where they trained personnel for military transport aviation, in 2002 it was reorganized into the Balashov Aviation Training Center (785th UAC) — the 4th aviation department of the Krasnodar Military Aviation Institute. — . ). In the school museum there were photographs of his grandfather and father, who were graduates of the Balashov VVAUL. Vladislav was proud of them.
Vladislav’s grandfather, Colonel Vadim Nikolaevich Chmirev, was born into the family of a pilot. Completed training at the flying club in Cheboksary. After flight school, he served in Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Kansk. Later he became the head of the political department of the Balashov VVAUL.
Vladislav’s father, Major Vadim Vadimovich Chmirev, served as an instructor pilot in Balashov.
As our interlocutor Ruslan says, he and Vladislav Chmirev graduated from flight school in 2022.
— After graduation, they ended up in different places, in different military transport aviation regiments. Then we crossed paths several times at different airfields. They talked more about the service, Vlad said that he was satisfied with everything. We, as young pilots, were assistants to the aircraft commander, gaining experience in order to later become a PIC ourselves.
— He got married immediately after graduating from college. I don't know the details. I learned that Vlad was in the downed Il-76 from media reports. My heart is very heavy now.
Vlad was only 24 years old, he had his whole life ahead of him. Residents of Orenburg bring flowers to the plane near the military unit in Aviagorodok, where the young pilot served.
The pilots who served with Vladislav Chmirev in the same squadron say that he was from the breed of those who are able to overcome themselves, conquer their fears, not get lost in any situation and make the right decision.
“They did not leave the plane, together with the aircraft commander, they took a heavy vehicle out of the populated area, saved the lives of civilians, and died as heroes,” says Vlad’s classmate Tatyana. “When I learned this terrible news, Vladislav stood smiling before my eyes. He was a very bright, spiritually generous, truthful person.
The commander of the crashed Ukrainian Armed Forces Il-76 was 35-year-old Tambov native Stanislav Bezzubkin. He also graduated from the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School. The plane was flying from Chkalovsky airfield to Belgorod. In the cabin there were 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war for exchange and three accompanying persons. They all died.
“In my opinion, the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the Il-67 deliberately,” says the chairman of the All-Russian organization “Officers of Russia”, Hero of Russia, Major General Sergei Lipovoy. “The Ukrainian military was waiting for this plane. A large-scale provocation was being prepared in order to later blame Russia for it. That it was allegedly our side that shot down a plane with captured Ukrainians who were flying home to meet their relatives. Something went wrong. The Ukrainian Armed Forces' missiles were discovered, but it was too late. The air defense systems that are installed on the Il-76 aircraft, and this is the shooting of squibs, the so-called heat traps, for some reason did not fully work and did not deflect the missiles to the side, as it should be.
— Purely hypothetically, this is possible. But our pilots never use this if there are passengers on board. The missiles hit the plane as it was landing. They hit us from a mobile complex with a long range of action. They can be detected only at the last moment, when the radar station is turned on.
As the expert says, missiles, as a rule, hit the aircraft engines, the heat source.
—Our pilots remained heroes to the end, they took the burning plane away from the village. They deserve state awards. Eternal memory to them. And in Ukraine now let them think about what will come to them and when.
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