Homage to Aviation Minister Pyotr Dementiev paid in Drozhzhanovsky District

11 May 2017, Thursday

Today in the Drozhzhanovsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, a ceremonial event was held to celebrate the 110th anniversary from the birth of Pyotr Dementiev, Minister of Aviation Industry of the USSR.

The event was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, Head of the Drozhzhanovsky District Aleksandr Shadrikov, and others.

The honoured guests visited the museum park of military equipment named after Pyotr Dementiev, the twice Hero of Socialist Labour awarded with nine orders of Lenin, in the village of Staroye Drozhzhanoe. They also laid flowers to the Eternal Flame and the bust of Colonel-General Dementiev. In the local House of Culture, a concert was held in honour of the 110th anniversary of Peter Dementiev with the participation of vocal and dance groups from Tatarstan.

Pyotr Dementiev was born in the Ubei village, Drozhzhanovsky District of Tatarstan, in 1907. During the WWII, he was responsible for the full-scale production of aircraft, occupying the post of the First Deputy People's Commissar of the Aviation Industry. He held the position of the aviation industry minister from 1965 until his death in 1977.

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