Alexander Evgenievich Raevsky (22 May 1887 – 7 October 1937) was a Russian aviator, one of the founders of flight science in Russia.
Since June 1911, he was a pilot leader at the aviation school of the Imperial All-Russian Aero Club.
[2] With the outbreak of the First World War, he fought on the Southwestern Front as part of the 32nd Corps Aviation Detachment.
He participated in the meeting and air escort of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Emperor Nicholas II (1915), who made an inspection trip to the Southwestern Front.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Raevsky's aviation activity, the magazine Bulletin of the Air Fleet wrote (1921): "Over a 10-year period, the hero of the day flew on 32 different types of aircraft.
Since 1922, he headed the educational photo laboratory at the Air Fleet Academy named after Professor Nikolay Zhukovsky.