Utochkin was one of the most notable natives of the Black Sea port of Odessa in the early years of the 20th century.

The wife, having discovered the dead spouse, went crazy with grief and stabbed her children with a kitchen knife.

Of the many people I have seen, he is the most striking figure in terms of originality and spiritual scope.”[4]In the spring of 1910, Baron S. Ksidias, the publisher of the Odessa paper of "Southern Thought", bought a plane.

[5] One of his flights to Nizhyn was enthusiastically watched by young Sergei Korolev, future general designer and creator of spacecraft.

[6] For three years, Sergei Utochkin traveled to 600 large and small cities of the Russian Empire, where he flew an airplane in front of the public.