Ivan Doronin

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Colonel Ivan Vasilyevich Doronin (Russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич Доро́нин; 5 May [O.S. 22 April] 1903 – 2 February 1951, Moscow) was a Soviet pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union (April 20, 1934). Doronin was born on 5 May [O.S. 22 April] 1903 in Kamenka, Nikolayevsky Uezd, Samara Governorate (now Pugachyovsky District, Saratov Oblast) to a Russian peasant family. He volunteered for the navy (Baltic Fleet) in 1920 and in 1924 he was assigned to Yegoryevsk Aviation Theorethical School. He graduated from the Sevastopol Flying School in 1925 and then served as a navy pilot in the Black Sea Fleet, later as instructor in naval aviation school. In 1930, Ivan Doronin joined the civil aviation in the Russian North. He was a crew commander at a line Irkutsk-Yakutsk-Bodaybo. He participated in exploration of Kara Sea. Doronin was the first to fly over Verkhoyansk Range, he has mapped a line from Irkutsk to Ust-Srednekan.