Nikolay Kuznetsov

Nikolai Alekseyevich Kuznetsov (; 19 December 1922 —12 August 2009) was a Soviet, and later, Kazakhstani aviator. Kuznetsov served in the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II, and later went on to serve as the director of the Kazakh SSR's Administration of Civil Aviation. After being chosen to receive further training in 1943, Kuznetsov began working as a pilot instructor for the Red Army. The airline commenced operations on June 30, 1991.

Personal life

She graduated from the Medical Institute of Baku with a medical degree. Antonina worked in Akmola as a physician, and met Nikolai after he flew there in 1949. She continued her medical studies in Alma-Ata where she became an OB/GYN doctor.

Nikolai and Kuznetsov settled in Alma-Ata in the early 1950s. Here they raised their two daughters, a grandson and two granddaughters.

Awards

Kuznetsov's monument. Alley of Heroes (August 12, 2010, Tashkenskaya Cemetery, Almaty) Twice Hero of Socialist Labour Two Orders of Lenin Order of the Red Banner of Labour Medal "Veteran of Labour"

A bronze monument in his homeland by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. In the 1980s Kuznetsov was awarded the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, and he was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

Books "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.