[1] Anatoly Lyapidevsky was born on March 23 (10), 1908 in the Belaya Glina village in Stavropol Governorate (now Krasnodar Krai) in the family of a clergyman.

Lyapidevsky took part in an aerial search and rescue operation for the crew of the steamship Chelyuskin, under extremely difficult conditions, after it was sunk in Arctic waters after February 13, 1934.

[1][2] He flew the stranded people from their makeshift airstrip on the floating ice field of the Chukchi Sea to the town of Uelen.

Lyapidevsky was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for this deed on April 20, 1934.

The heroics of the fliers in the Chelyuskin Rescue prompted the government to create the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

After the end of the war, he worked as the main inspector of Ministry of State Control, deputy of Minister of Aviation Industry.

From 1962 to 1983 he was the lead constructor, the deputy of the main engineer of Mikoyan Design Bureau.