karnach stepan andreevich, navigator of the 247th fighter aviation regiment, captain, participant in the great patriotic war from june 1941, fought on the southern, crimean steppe fronts, flew i-16 fighters. squadron commander of the 247th fighter aviation regiment, captain karnach, on august 9, 1943, flew out to escort attack aircraft. air battle in the area of the villages of bolshie and malye prostoly lintsy, rammed an enemy me-109 fighter and landed the damaged aircraft. the title of hero of the soviet union with the presentation of the order. kornach was awarded on february 4 , 1944 for 270 combat sorties, 70 air battles and 12 downed enemy aircraft. they were all belarusians, they all worked on the land, they all lived in rural areas, and since childhood i was somehow instilled in school and at home, that is love for the homeland, for belarus, for the native land, for my people, for my loved ones, read my nationality, to be afraid of her that i am belarusian. there was a trip to minsk, i thought, why would such an idea come to me, why shouldn't i be a papal priest to metropoli