Stepan Krasovsky

Stepan Akimovich Krasovsky (; ; – 21 April 1983) was a Soviet Air Force marshal of the aviation.

Early life, World War I and Russian Civil War Born on 20 August 1897 to a peasant family in the village of Glukhi, Mogilev Governorate, Krasovsky graduated from the higher primary school in Bykhov in 1915, and worked at the Seletsk post office. He was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in May 1916 during World War I. Graduating from courses for wireless telegraph mechanics, he was promoted to unter-ofitser and appointed chief of a radio station in the aviation detachment of the 20th Army Corps of the Western Front. After the February Revolution, Krasovsky was transferred to the 25th Corps Aviation Detachment.

In October 1917 Krasovsky joined the Red Guards. He was transferred with the aviation detachment to the city of Yefremov in December 1917, where he joined the Red Army in February 1918 during the Russian Civil War. Krasovsky served as a motor mechanic in the 3rd Tver Aviation Detachment, then from October 1918 was a motor mechanic and military commissar of the 33rd Aviation Detachment. He fought on the Eastern Front and on the Caucasian Front, participating in the Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan. From May 1920 Krasovsky served as an observer, and then as commissar of the 1st Azerbaijan Aviation Detachment and the Air Force of the 11th Army. He participated in the suppression of anti-Soviet revolt in Lankaran Uyezd and Yelizavetpol Uyezds during September and October. In early 1921, he was appointed military commissar of the Field Headquarters of the Air Force of the 11th Army, and took part in the Red Army invasion of Georgia. He was also a member of the Central Auditing Commission from 1961 to 1966. Retiring in October 1968, he was reinstated in the air force in July 1970 by Politburo decision and appointed a military inspector and advisor of the Group of Inspectors General, a sinecure position for aging senior officers. Krasovsky died on 21 April 1983 in Moscow and was buried in Monino.

Honours and awards Hero of the Soviet Union (29 May 1945) Six Orders of Lenin Order of the October Revolution Order of the Red Banner, four times Order of Suvorov, 1st and 2nd class Order of Kutuzov, 1st class Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 1st class Order of the Red Star Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class