Nikolai Kuznetsov (pilot)

Nikolai Alekseyevich Kuznetsov (Russian: Николай Алексеевич Кузнецов; 19 December 1922 —12 August 2009) was a Soviet, and later, Kazakhstani aviator.

[1] Nikolai Kuznetsov was born in the village of Novokarpovka, in the Nura District of the Karaganda region of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

Nikolay had to work hard to help his mother Aleksandra with the sowing, harvesting, courtship of livestock, and caring for the rest of the family.

In one of his interviews with the newspaper "Evening Almaty", he said:[citation needed] My family - simple rural workers formed my views, outlook, based on love and desire to work.

[2] During this period, Kuznetsov also participated in a number of tasks and battles, such as an operation in the city of Magnitogorsk to eliminate Otto Skorzeny, and his division of Hitler's army.

[2] In 1963 Nikolay Kuznetsov was sent to the department of the Kazakh civil aviation in the position of deputy chief of the flight services.

Also, Alma-ata was linked with all regional centers of Kazakhstan and various major cities and resort areas of the Soviet Union.

More than fifty percent of Kazakhstan's population each year used these air transport services of Aeroflot Soviet Airlines.

[citation needed] Nikolai Kuznetsov was married to Antonina Dmitievna Kuznetsova (August 28, 1924 – November 25, 2008) for over fifty years.

"Helm and Course" - an autobiography with contributions from more than 300 people, such as Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Boris Bugayev, among others.