one gold star medal was awarded anatoly lebedevsky, the star of hero number two was awarded to nikolai kamanin, both aviators, graduates of the leningrad military-technical school of the air force yon of the military theoretical school , legendary test pilots twice hero of the soviet union vladimir as a different and hero of the soviet union georgy baidukov these names, like many others forever the harsh war years are inscribed in the annals of the academy. in the spring of the forty-first year, when it became obvious that the war would be based on the leningrad institute of civil engineers, which was located in pulkovo air force academy was established. the academy was created by order. eh, people's commissar general sharapov, he became their first head of the academy. the academy was formed in just a few weeks, the war began , and soon the enemy began to bomb. the leningrad educational institution was evacuated to yoshkar-ola during the war years, more than 2,000 military aviation engineers were trained at the academy, scientists and teachers not only trained specialists for the front, they