stars on this man’s chest, with pleasure i pronounce his name, surname and patronymic, sergei vladimirovich ilyushinounder of the company, which is still operating, he was born into a huge family, into a very large family, large, 11 children, he was born on march 18, 1894 in the village of dilyaleva, this is the vologda region, i repeat, 11 children, the family of a poor peasant, they lived very together, they lived poorly, at the age of 6 he learned to read, at the age of 8... he went to a parochial school, like, by the way, very many, but he completed only three classes, he had to help his family, he worked 15 years old, left home to work, wandered, wandered around the cities, was even somewhere in the amur region, took on any kind of work, then ended up in st. petersburg at the age of sixteen, worked at the kolomyazhsk a... and there he saw for the first time the plane, he saw during the first international aviation week in russia, completely caught fire, well, like everyone else, because the thing in the air, of course, made an impression on the human, in 1914 he was drafted into the army, first