Why you need to know about the feat of Kurchenko. The last voyage of Kurchenko's hope. View from childhood

Forty-nine years ago, the first plane hijacking occurred in the Soviet Union. An-24, flying from Batumi to Sukhum, was captured by Lithuanian terrorists.

Sputnik, Astanda Ardzinba.

Capture

On October 15, 1970, a Soviet civilian plane An-24 took off from Batumi to Sukhum. The travel time would have taken 30-35 minutes, but five minutes after take-off, at 12:40 local time, two passengers in the first row called the flight attendant and demanded to hand the envelope to the pilots. It was "Order No. 9" printed back in Vilnius, in which the terrorists demanded to fly to Turkey and stop radio communication, for failure to comply with the order - death. At the same time, one of the terrorists announced to the passengers that the Soviet regime was no longer on their plane.

This is how the first seizure in the history of the USSR began. passenger aircraft... Onboard there were 46 passengers and five crew members.

The terrorists were the Lithuanians, the father and son of Brazinskas. Later, the competent authorities will thoroughly study all stages of their life. It turns out that the elder Brazinskas, 45-year-old Pranas, an anti-communist, in 1944 served in the auxiliary troops of the German division, where he assembled pontoon bridges. Later he supplied the Lithuanian members of the Resistance with weapons. In 1965, Pranas Brazinskas, working as head of a household goods warehouse, received five years in a general regime colony for stealing socialist property, but he was released on parole three years later, and in order not to tempt fate, he left with his son Algirdas to Uzbekistan.

But even there, Pranas became the organizer of the local black market, the son also participated in his father's scams. When the KGB became interested in the Brazinskas in 1970, they decided to flee the country without thinking of anything better than hijacking a plane.

However, these curious details of the biography of the invaders were not yet known to either the passengers on board or the crew.

Turboprop passenger aircraft "AN-24"

Nadezhda Kurchenko, a 19-year-old flight attendant of the Sukhum aviation unit, rushed to the pilots shouting: "Attack!" - The terrorists rushed after her. "No one to get up! - shouted Algirdas. - Otherwise we will blow up the plane!" - Kurchenko tried to block their way into the cockpit, and then Pranas shot her point-blank from the sawn-off shotgun.

The terrorists broke into the cockpit and started shooting at the crew, wounding the commander, flight mechanic and navigator, only the second pilot was not injured. Later they will explain that they deliberately decided to injure three crew members, but not kill, but leave one unharmed so that he could fly the plane.

Standing behind the pilots, Pranas Brazinskas shook a grenade and ordered to head south to Trabzon.

About an hour and a half after the hijacking, the aircraft landed in this Turkish city. Local special forces, who were alerted to the incident, cordoned off the plane. Coming out of the plane, Brazinskas Sr. said: "Here it is, freedom!" - Both terrorists voluntarily laid down their arms and surrendered to the police.

All crew members received medical attention. Passengers and pilots were offered to stay in Turkey, but none of them accepted this offer. A day later, a Soviet military plane took them all back to the USSR, and the body of the deceased flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko was delivered to Sukhum on a special flight.

In memory of Nadya

The feat of nineteen-year-old Nadezhda Kurchenko, a graduate of the Poninsky boarding school of the Glazovsky district in Udmurtia, a flight attendant of the Sukhum aviation detachment, did not go unnoticed. Songs were written in honor of Nadya, parks and streets of Soviet cities were named, a small planet No. 2349 discovered by scientists from the Crimean Observatory was named after her, the film "Entrant" was made about her. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Nadezhda Kurchenko was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner for her courage and bravery.

Opening of the monument to the flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko, who died at the hands of the father and son of the Brazinskas, who seized the An-24 passenger plane, which was regular flight No. 244 from Batumi to Sukhum.

Nadezhda Kurchenko was born on December 29, 1950 in the village of Novopoltava, Klyuchevsky district Altai Territory... She graduated from a boarding school in the village of Ponino, Glazovsky District, Udmurt ASSR. In December 1968, Nadya moved to Sukhum, where she began to work as a flight attendant for a local airline. Young Nadezhda Kurchenko did not live two and a half months before her twenties and three months before her wedding.

The body of a flight attendant killed by terrorists was brought by a special flight from Trabzon to Sukhum, where her mother had already flown from Udmurtia. They decided to bury Nadia Kurchenko in Sukhum, in one of the central parks, which to this day bears her name.

On the day of her funeral, thousands of people followed the coffin through the city streets and brought flowers to her. And the planes leaving for the flight wagged their wings as a sign of respect to their young colleague.

Twenty years after the tragic death in 1990, the ashes of Nadya Kurchenko, at the insistence of her mother, were transported to Udmurtia, the remains of the heroine are now buried in her cemetery hometown Glazov. The school of young pilots in the capital of the republic of Izhevsk opened a museum named after her, which was awarded the title of "national".

Life "under the supervision of the KGB"

The Turkish authorities, largely due to US influence, did not extradite the terrorists to the Soviet Union. They were sentenced: the father to eight years in prison, the son to two. But less than two years later, both bandits were free and managed to get over to the United States, where the Lithuanian diaspora procured citizenship for them. In the West, it was believed that the Brazinskas could not be put on a par with other terrorists, as if they were fighting against the Soviet regime.

In America, they changed their first and last names to Frank and Albert White and settled in the town of Santa Monica in California. Life has improved for both. Brazinskas Sr. first worked as a painter, and then became a co-owner of an arms store. His son graduated from accounting courses, got a job at an insurance company and married an American woman.

However, until the end of his life, Brazinskas Sr. was haunted by the communists. It seemed to him that the house was being watched by KGB agents who wanted to steal it back to the USSR. In the 1980s, he was chronicled several times when, with a pistol in his hand, he brought "KGB agents" to the police station - some of the first people they met from the street.

In America, Algirdas wrote a book of memoirs about his "exploits" with his father, in which he tried to justify the hijacking and hijacking of an aircraft "by the struggle for the liberation of Lithuania from Soviet occupation," and also talked about the horrors of life in the Soviet Union. But even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Lithuania's independence, the Brazinskas did not return to their homeland, still fearing disguised KGB agents.

In his old age, Brazinskas Sr. became irritable, he and his son often had quarrels. During one of these, 45-year-old Algirdas beat his 77-year-old father to death with sports dumbbells. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to 16 years in prison.

Monument to Nadezhda in Sukhum

In Sukhum, a city park is named in honor of Nadezhda Kurchenko, in which a monument to a brave flight attendant was erected.

During the Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia, the monument was significantly damaged, as it was subjected to constant shelling.

In 2010, the city administration allocated funds, the holes were patched up on the monument, but the damage from heavy shelling affected when a tree fell on it in 2013 - the monument fell to pieces.

In 2017, that the monument will be restored and installed in its original place.

She was awarded (posthumously) the Order of the Red Banner.
Today, October 15, marks the 48th anniversary of the death of 19-year-old flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko, who at the cost of her own life tried to prevent the seizure of a Soviet passenger plane by terrorists.

In modern Russia, the name of Nadezhda Kurchenko is practically forgotten. Probably, official propaganda is trying to make modern girls try to imitate not pure, bright people who are able to give their lives without hesitation, doing their duty, but girls from TV shows and "glossy magazines".

She was born on December 29, 1950 in the village of Novo-Poltava in the Klyuchevsky district of the Altai Territory. She graduated from a boarding school in the village of Ponino, Glazovsky district of the Ukrainian ASSR. From December 1968 she worked as a flight attendant of the Sukhumi air squadron. She died on October 15, 1970, trying to prevent the hijacking of an AN-24 aircraft flying Batumi-Sukhumi-Krasnodar, captured by terrorists by the father and son Brazinskas (45 and 13 years old). At an altitude of 800 meters, two passengers - father and son Brazinskasa called a flight attendant and handed a note to the pilots demanding to change the route and fly to Turkey. The girl rushed into the cockpit and shouted: "Attack!" The criminals rushed after her, opening fire. "No one to get up!" Shouted the youngest of the hijackers. "Otherwise, we'll blow up the plane!"

The shooting continued in the cockpit. Commander Georgy Chakhrakia was hit in the spine by one of the bullets: Navigator Valery Fadeev was shot in the lung, and flight mechanic Hovhannes Babayan was wounded in the chest. Co-pilot Suliko Shavidze was the luckiest one - a bullet got stuck in a steel pipe in the back of his seat. Behind the pilots stood Brazinskas senior and, shaking a grenade, shouted: "Keep the seashore on the left. Heading south. Do not enter the clouds!"

The pilot tried to deceive the terrorists and land the An-24 at the military airfield in Kobuleti. The pilots still managed to turn on the SOS signal, but it was too close to the Turkish border. But the hijacker warned once again that he would blow up the car (later it turned out that Brazinskas was bluffing, since the grenade was a training grenade). Soon the captured aircraft crossed the Soviet-Turkish border, and after another half an hour found itself over the airfield in Trabzon. The plane circled over the runway and launched green rockets, asking to be released for an emergency landing. Immediately after landing, the hijackers surrendered to the Turkish authorities. Representatives of the Turkish and American special services left for the place. Passengers and crew members were asked to stay in Turkey, but no one agreed to this. The next day, on a specially sent plane, all the people and the body of the deceased girl were taken to the USSR. A little later, the Turks returned the hijacked An-24. After a major overhaul, board N46256 with a photograph of Nadia Kurchenko in the cabin flew in Uzbekistan for a long time.

According to the recollections of friends and colleagues, Nadya was a pure and bright person, and three months later she had a wedding. This drama then shook the whole country. The Soviet Union was shocked - this was the first time such a crime had happened. The name of Nadezhda spread all over the world in one day. And for many years it became a symbol of Komsomol heroism. This was the first such case in the USSR, there were no instructions on this matter, and a 19-year-old Soviet girl acted as her heart and conscience told her.

Suliko Shavidze, Valery Fadeev and flight engineer Hovhannes Babayan recovered and then were able to fly, having worked until retirement. Commander Chahrakiya was chained to wheelchair, underwent several surgeries on the spine, could no longer fly, and remained a disabled person of the second group.

Nadezhda Kurchenko was buried in the center of Sukhumi. 20 years later, her grave was transferred to the city cemetery in the city of Glazov. In the village of Ponino, where she studied, a monument was erected to her. The name of Nadezhda Kurchenko was given to one of the peaks of the Gissar ridge, a tanker of the Russian fleet and a minor planet in the constellation Capricorn.

Pranas Brazinskas was born in 1924 in the Trakai region of Lithuania. In 1949, according to the biography written by Brazinskaos, the leader of one of the "forest brothers" detachments killed the chairman of the council with a shot through the window and mortally wounded P. Brazinskas' father who happened to be nearby. With the help of local authorities, P. Brazinskas bought a house in Vievis and in 1952 became the head of the warehouse of household goods of the Vevis cooperative. In 1955 P. Brazinskas was sentenced to 1 year of correctional labor for theft and speculation in building materials. In January 1965, by decision of the Supreme Court, he was again sentenced to 5 years, but in June he was released early. Having divorced his first wife, he left for Central Asia.

Being engaged in speculation (in Lithuania he bought car parts, carpets, silk and linen fabrics and sold them in Central Asia, having a profit of 400-500 rubles for each parcel), he quickly saved up money. In 1968, he brought his thirteen-year-old son Algirdas to Kokand, and two years later he left his second wife.

On October 7-13, 1970, having visited Vilnius for the last time, P. Brazinskas and his son took their luggage - it is not known where the acquired weapons, accumulated dollars (according to the KGB, more than 6,000 dollars) and flew to the Caucasus.

The USSR demanded that Turkey immediately extradite the criminals, but this demand was not met. The Brazinskas asked for political asylum. The Turks refused to hand over the terrorists, they were given ridiculous terms, and after three years they were amnestied. After living for several years in a luxurious villa "under house arrest", they went to the United States, where they dreamed of getting.
The farce with the "flight" of criminals to America was framed as follows: in 1976, father and son allegedly escaped from house arrest and on June 23 turned to the American Embassy in Turkey with a request to grant them political asylum in the United States. Having received a refusal, the Brazinskas again "surrendered" into the hands of the Turkish police, they were kept under guard for a couple of weeks in a hospital in Istanbul and ... finally released. On July 11, they received a Venezuelan visa. Then they flew to Canada via Italy and Venezuela without any problems. On August 24, during a stopover in New York, the Brazinskas got off the plane and were "detained" by the US Migration and Naturalization Service.

The Brazinskas were given American passports with new names. Algirdas officially became Albert Victor White, and Pranas became Frank White. Real life in the United States was very different from what they expected. They settled in the town of Santa Monica in California, where they worked as ordinary painters, lived together in a one-room apartment, their personal lives did not work out. In the United States, the Brazinskas wrote a book about their "exploits", in which they tried to justify the hijacking and hijacking of the plane "by the struggle to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation." To whitewash himself, P. Brazinskas stated that he had hit the flight attendant by accident, in a "shootout with the crew." Even later, A. Brazinskas claimed that the flight attendant had died during a "shootout with KGB agents" ... However, the Lithuanian TV channel LNK, shortly before his death, interviewed Pranas Brazinskas, who bluntly stated that "he killed this bitch because she stood with him. on a way".

In the Lithuanian community of America, the attitude towards the Brazinskas was wary, they were openly afraid of them. An attempt to organize a fundraising for the fund of their own help failed. After Lithuania gained independence, the “patriots” did not make any attempts to return to their homeland. However, the support of the Brazinskas by Lithuanian organizations gradually faded away, everyone forgot about them. The criminals lived miserably, under old age Brazinskas Sr. became irritable and unbearable. During one of these quarrels, 45-year-old "Lithuanian patriot" Albert Victor White beat his 77-year-old dad with dumbbells with a blow to death, was convicted of the murder of his father Frank.

October 15 marks the 47th anniversary of the death of 19-year-old flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko, who at the cost of her own life tried to prevent the seizure of a Soviet passenger plane by terrorists. The story of the heroic death of a young girl awaits you further.

This was the first hijacking of a passenger plane of this magnitude. With him, in essence, began a long-term series of similar tragedies, which splattered the skies of the whole world with the blood of innocent people.

And it all started like that.

An-24 took to the skies from the Batumi airfield on October 15, 1970 at 12:30. The course is to Sukhumi. There were 46 passengers and 5 crew members on board. The scheduled flight time is 25-30 minutes. But life broke both the schedule and the schedule. On the 4th minute of the flight, the plane deviated sharply from the course. Radio operators asked for the board - there was no response. Communication with the control tower was interrupted. The plane was leaving in the direction of close Turkey.

Military and rescue boats went out to sea. Their captains received an order: to follow at full speed to the place of a possible disaster.

2. The board did not respond to any of the requests. A few more minutes - and the An-24 left air space THE USSR. And in the sky over the Turkish coastal airfield of Trabzon, two rockets flashed - red, then green. It was the emergency landing signal. The plane touched the concrete pier of a foreign air harbor. Telegraph agencies all over the world immediately reported: a Soviet passenger plane had been hijacked. The flight attendant was killed, there are wounded. Everything.

Georgy Chakhrakia, the commander of the An-24, No. 46256, who performed a flight on the Batumi-Sukhumi route on October 15, 1970: “I remember everything. I remember thoroughly. Such things are not forgotten. On that day, I said to Nadya: “We agreed that in life you would consider us your brothers. So why aren't you being frank with us? I know that soon I will have to take a walk at the wedding ... ”- the pilot recalls with sadness. - The girl raised her blue eyes, smiled and said: “Yes, probably on november holidays". I was delighted and, shaking the wings of the plane, shouted at the top of my voice: “Guys! On holidays we go to the wedding! ”… And in an hour I knew that there would be no wedding…

Today, 45 years later, I intend to once again - at least briefly - recount the events of those days and again talk about Nadya Kurchenko, her courage and her heroism. To tell about the overwhelming reaction of millions of people of the so-called stagnant time to sacrifice, courage, and courage of a person. To tell about this first of all to the people of the new generation, the new computer consciousness, to tell how it was, because my generation remembers and knows this story, and most importantly - Nadia Kurchenko - and without reminders. And young people should know why many streets, schools, mountain peaks and even the plane bears her name. "

... After takeoff, greetings and instructions to the passengers, the flight attendant returned to her work room, a narrow compartment. She opened a bottle of Borjomi and, letting the water shoot with sparkling tiny cannonballs, filled four plastic cups for the crew. Putting them on a tray, I entered the cockpit.

3. After getting the crew drunk, she returned to her compartment. Five minutes after takeoff (at an altitude of about 800 meters), the man and the guy, sitting in the front seats, called the stewardess and gave her an envelope: "Tell the crew commander!" The envelope contained the "Order No. 9" typed:

1. I order to fly along the indicated route.
2. Terminate radio communications.
3. For failure to comply with the order - death.
(Free Europe) P.K.Z.Ts.
General (Krylov)

There was a stamp on the sheet, on which it was written in Lithuanian: "... rajono valdybos kooperatyvas" ("cooperative of the management of ... the district"). The man was dressed in the dress uniform of a Soviet officer. Nadia took the envelope. Their gazes must have met. She must have wondered at the tone of the words. But she did not find out anything, but stepped to the door luggage compartment - further was the door of the pilot's cabin. Nadia's feelings were probably written on her face - most likely. And the sensitivity of the wolf, alas, surpasses any other. And probably, it was precisely due to this sensitivity that the terrorist saw in Nadia's eyes hostility, subconscious suspicion, a shadow of danger. This turned out to be enough for the sick imagination to announce the alarm: failure, sentence, exposure. Self-control refused: he literally ejected from the chair and rushed after Nadia. She only managed to take a step towards the cockpit when he opened the door to her compartment, which she had just closed.

You can't come here! she screamed.

But he approached like the shadow of a beast. She understood: the enemy was in front of her. In the next second he understood too: she would break all plans. Nadia screamed again. And at the same instant, having slammed the cockpit door, she turned to face the enraged bandit and prepared for the attack. He, as well as the members of the crew, heard her words - no doubt. What was left to do? Nadia made a decision: not to let the attacker into the cockpit at any cost. Any!

He could be a maniac and shoot the crew. He could have killed the crew and passengers. He could ... She did not know his actions, his intentions. And he knew: jumping to her, he tried to knock her down. Resting her hands on the wall, Nadia held on and continued to resist. The first bullet hit her in the thigh. She pressed even more tightly against the pilot's door. The terrorist tried to squeeze her throat. Nadia - knock the weapon out of his right hand. A stray bullet went into the ceiling. Nadya fought back with her feet, hands, even her head.

The crew assessed the situation instantly. The commander abruptly interrupted the right turn, in which the plane was at the moment of the attack, and immediately swung the roaring car to the left, and then to the right. In the next second, the plane went steeply upward: the pilots tried to knock down the attacker, believing that his experience in this matter was not great, and Nadia would hold out. The passengers were still with belts - after all, the scoreboard did not go out, the plane was just gaining altitude.

In the cabin, seeing a passenger rushing to the cockpit and hearing the first shot, several people instantly unfastened their seat belts and jumped out of their seats. Two of them were closest to the place where the criminal was sitting, and the first to feel the trouble. Galina Kiryak and Aslan Kaishanba, however, did not have time to take a step: they were outstripped by the one who was sitting next to the one who had fled into the cabin. The young bandit - and he was much younger than the first, for they turned out to be father and son - pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and fired along the cabin. A bullet whizzed over the heads of the shocked passengers.

Don `t move! he yelled. - Do not move!

Attack! He's armed!

The next moment after the second shot, the young man opened his gray cloak, and people saw grenades - they were tied to their belt.

This is for you! he shouted. - If anyone else gets up - blow up the plane!

It was obvious that this was not an empty threat - if they failed, they had nothing to lose. Meanwhile, despite the evolution of the aircraft, the elder remained on his feet and with bestial fury tried to tear Nadia away from the cockpit door. He needed a commander. He needed a crew. He needed a plane.

4. Struck by the incredible resistance of Nadia, enraged by his own powerlessness to cope with the wounded, bloody fragile girl, without aiming, without thinking for a second, he fired point-blank and, throwing the desperate defender of the crew and passengers into the corner of the narrow passage, burst into the cockpit. Behind him - his geek with a sawed-off.

To Turkey! To Turkey! Return to the Soviet coast - blow up the plane!

“Bullets were flying from the cockpit. One walked through my hair, - says Vladimir Gavrilovich Merenkov from Leningrad. He and his wife were passengers on an ill-fated flight in 1970. - I saw: the bandits had pistols, a hunting rifle, one grenade from the elder was hanging on his chest. The plane threw left and right - the pilots probably hoped that the criminals would not stand on their feet. "

The shooting continued in the cockpit. Then they will count 18 holes, and a total of 24 bullets were fired. One of them hit the commander in the spine.

Giorgi Chakhrakia: “My legs have taken away. Through efforts, I turned around and saw a terrible picture: Nadya was lying motionless on the floor in the door of our cabin and was bleeding. Navigator Fadeev lay nearby. And behind us stood a man and, shaking a grenade, shouted: “Keep the seashore on the left! Heading south! Do not enter the clouds! Obey, or we'll blow up the plane! "

The offender did not stand on ceremony. Tore off the radio communication headphones from the pilots. Trampled over the lying bodies. Flight mechanic Hovhannes Babayan was wounded in the chest. The co-pilot Suliko Shavidze was also shot, but he was lucky - the bullet got stuck in the steel tube of the seat back. When navigator Valery Fadeev came to his senses (his lungs were shot), the bandit swore and kicked the seriously wounded man.

Vladimir Gavrilovich Merenkov: "I said to my wife:" We are flying towards Turkey! " - and was scared that when approaching the border we might be shot down. The wife also remarked: “The sea is under us. You feel good. You can swim, but I can't! " And I thought, “What a stupid death! I went through the whole war, signed on the Reichstag - and on you! "

The pilots still managed to turn on the SOS signal. Giorgi Chakhrakia: “I said to the bandits:“ I am wounded, my legs are paralyzed. I can only control my hands. The co-pilot has to help me. " And the bandit replied: “Everything happens in war. We may perish. " Even the thought flashed to send "Annushka" to the rocks - to die ourselves and finish off these bastards. But there are 44 people in the cabin, including 17 women and one child.

I said to the co-pilot: “If I lose consciousness, navigate the ship at the request of the bandits and land. We must save the plane and passengers! " We tried to land on Soviet territory, in Kobuleti, where there was a military airfield. But the hijacker, when he saw where I was directing the car, warned that he would shoot me and blow up the ship. I made a decision to cross the border. And in five minutes we crossed it at low altitude. "

... The airfield in Trabzon was found visually. This was not difficult for the pilots. Giorgi Chakhrakia: “We made a circle and fired green rockets, making it clear to free the strip. We entered from the side of the mountains and sat down so that, should something happen, land on the sea. We were immediately cordoned off. The co-pilot opened the front doors and the Turks entered. In the cockpit, the bandits surrendered. All this time, until the locals appeared, we were at gunpoint ... "

Leaving the passenger compartment after the passengers, the senior bandit knocked on the car with his fist: "This plane is now ours!" The Turks provided medical assistance to all crew members. They immediately offered those wishing to stay in Turkey, but none of the 49 Soviet citizens agreed. The next day, all the passengers and the body of Nadia Kurchenko were taken to the Soviet Union. A little later, the stolen An-24 was overtaken. For courage and heroism, Nadezhda Kurchenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, a passenger plane, an asteroid, schools, streets and so on were named after Nadia. But it should be said, apparently, about something else.

The scale of state and public action associated with the unprecedented event was enormous. Members of the State Commission and the USSR Foreign Ministry conducted negotiations with the Turkish authorities for several days in a row without a single break.

5. It followed: to allocate an air corridor for the return of the hijacked aircraft; an air corridor for transporting injured crew members and passengers in need of urgent medical attention from Trabzon hospitals; of course, and those who did not suffer physically, but ended up in a foreign land not of their own free will; an air corridor was required for a special flight from Trabzon to Sukhumi with Nadia's body. Her mother had already flown from Udmurtia to Sukhumi.

Nadezhda's mother, Henrietta Ivanovna Kurchenko, says: “I immediately asked that Nadya be buried here in Udmurtia. But I was not allowed. They said that from a political point of view, this cannot be done.

6. And for twenty years I went to Sukhumi every year at the expense of the Ministry civil aviation... In 1989, my grandson and I came for the last time, and there the war began. Abkhazians fought with Georgians, and the grave was neglected. We walked to Nadya on foot, we were shooting nearby - everything was ... And then I impudently wrote a letter addressed to Gorbachev: "If you don't help transport Nadia, I'll go and hang myself on her grave!" A year later, the daughter was reburied at the city cemetery in Glazov. They wanted to bury it separately, on Kalinin Street, and rename the street in honor of Nadia. But I didn’t allow it. She died for people. And I want her to lie with the people. "

Immediately after the hijacking in the USSR, scant TASS reports appear:

"On October 15, the civil air fleet An-24 made a regular flight from the city of Batumi to Sukhumi. Two armed bandits, using weapons against the crew of the plane, forced the plane to change its route and land on the territory of Turkey in the city of Trabzon. During the fight with the bandits, a flight attendant of the plane was killed, who was trying to block the bandits' way to the pilot's cabin. Two pilots were injured. The passengers on the plane are unharmed. The Soviet government appealed to the Turkish authorities with a request to extradite the murderer criminals to be brought to the Soviet court, as well as to return the plane and Soviet citizens who were on board the An-24 plane. "

7. Appeared the next day, October 17, "tassovka" reported that the aircraft crew and passengers returned to their homeland. True, the navigator of the plane who underwent the operation, who was seriously wounded in the chest, remained in the Trabzon hospital. The names of the hijackers are not disclosed. “As for the two criminals who committed an armed attack on the crew of the plane, as a result of which the flight attendant N.V. Kurchenko, two crew members and one passenger were wounded, then the Turkish government announced that they were arrested and the prosecutor's office was instructed to urgently investigate the circumstances of the case.

8. The general public became aware of the personalities of the air pirates only on November 5, after a press conference by the USSR Prosecutor General Rudenko.

Brazinskas Pranas Stasio born in 1924 and Brazinskas Algirdas born in 1955

Pranas Brazinskas was born in 1924 in the Trakai region of Lithuania.

According to a biography written by Brazinskas in 1949, the "forest brothers" shot through the window the chairman of the council and fatally wounded P. Brazinskas' father, who happened to be nearby. With the help of local authorities, P. Brazinskas bought a house in Vievis and in 1952 became the head of the warehouse of household goods of the Vevis cooperative. In 1955 P. Brazinskas was sentenced to 1 year of corrective labor for theft and speculation in building materials. In January 1965, by the decision of the Supreme Court, he was again sentenced to 5 years, but in June he was released early. Having divorced his first wife, he left for Central Asia.

He was engaged in speculation (in Lithuania he bought car parts, carpets, silk and linen fabrics and sent them in parcels to Central Asia, for each parcel he made a profit of 400-500 rubles), quickly saved up money. In 1968 he brought his thirteen-year-old son Algirdas to Kokand, and two years later he left his second wife.

They sentenced 45-year-old Pranas Brazinskas to eight years in prison, and his 15-year-old son Algirdas to two. In May 1974, his father fell under the amnesty law, and the imprisonment of Brazinskas Sr. was changed to house arrest. In the same year, father and son allegedly escaped from house arrest and turned to the American Embassy in Turkey with a request to grant them political asylum in the United States. Having received a refusal, the Brazinskas again surrendered to the Turkish police, where they were kept for a couple of weeks and ... finally released. Then they flew to Canada via Italy and Venezuela. During a stopover in New York, the Brazinskas got off the plane and were "detained" by the US Migration and Naturalization Service. They were never granted the status of political refugees, but to begin with, they were provided with a residence permit, and in 1983 both were given American passports. Algirdas officially became Albert Victor White, and Pranas became Frank White.

9. Henrietta Ivanovna Kurchenko: “In an effort to extradite the Brazinskas, I even went to meet with Reagan at the American embassy. They told me that they were looking for my father because he lives illegally in the United States. And the son received American citizenship. And he cannot be punished. Nadia was killed in 1970, and the law on the extradition of bandits, wherever they were, was allegedly passed in 1974. And there will be no return ... "

Brazinskas settled in the town of Santa Monica in California, where they worked as ordinary painters. In America, in the Lithuanian community, the attitude towards the Brazinskas was wary, they were openly afraid of them. An attempt to organize a fundraising for the fund of their own help failed. In the United States, the Brazinskas wrote a book about their "exploits", in which they tried to justify the hijacking and hijacking of the plane "by the struggle to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation." To whitewash himself, P. Brazinskas stated that he had hit the flight attendant by accident, in a "shootout with the crew." Still later, A. Brazinskas claimed that the flight attendant had died during a "shootout with KGB agents." However, the support of the Brazinskas by Lithuanian organizations gradually faded away, everyone forgot about them. Real life in the United States was very different from what they expected. The criminals lived miserably, under old age Brazinskas Sr. became irritable and unbearable.

In early February 2002, the 911 call in Santa Monica, California rang. The caller hung up immediately. The police identified the address they were calling from and arrived at 900 21st Street. The door for the police was opened by 46-year-old Albert Victor White and led the law officers to the cold corpse of his 77-year-old father, on whose head forensic experts later counted eight blows from a dumbbell. In Santa Monica, murder is rare - it was the first violent death in the city that year.

Jack Alex, attorney for Brazinskas Jr.

I am a Lithuanian myself, and I was hired by his wife, Virginia, to protect Albert Victor White. Here in California, there is a fairly large Lithuanian diaspora, and you don't think that we Lithuanians support the hijacking of the 1970 plane in any way.
- Pranas was a terrible person, it happened, in fits of rage, he chased the neighboring children with weapons.
- Algirdas is a normal and sane person. At the time of the capture, he was only 15 years old, and he hardly knew what he was doing. He spent all his life in the shadow of his father's dubious charisma, and now, through his own fault, he will rot in prison.
- It was necessary self-defense. The father pointed a pistol at him, threatening to shoot his son if he left him. But Algirdas knocked out his weapon and hit the old man on the head several times.
- The jury considered that, having knocked out the pistol, Algirdas could not have killed the old man, since he was very weak. Another thing against Algirdas was the fact that he called the police only a day after the incident - all this time he was next to the corpse.
- Algirdas was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the article "Intentional murder of the second degree."
- I know that this does not sound like a lawyer, but let me express my condolences to Algirdas. When I last saw him, he was terribly depressed. The father terrorized his son as best he could, and now, when the tyrant finally died, Algirdas, a man in his prime, will rot for many years in prison. Apparently, this is fate ...

Nadezhda Vladimirovna Kurchenko (1950-1970). She was born on December 29, 1950 in the village of Novo-Poltava in the Klyuchevsky district of the Altai Territory. She graduated from a boarding school in the village of Ponino, Glazovsky district of the Ukrainian ASSR. Since December 1968 she has been a flight attendant of the Sukhumi air squadron. She died on October 15, 1970, trying to prevent terrorists from hijacking an aircraft. In 1970 she was buried in the center of Sukhumi. 20 years later, her grave was transferred to the city cemetery of Glazov. She was awarded (posthumously) the Order of the Red Banner. The name of Nadezhda Kurchenko was given to one of the peaks of the Gissar ridge, a tanker of the Russian fleet and a small planet.

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Nadezhda Vladimirovna Kurchenko (1950-1970) - flight attendant of the Sukhum aviation unit. Killed (killed) trying to prevent the hijacking of the plane by terrorists.
She was awarded the Order of the Red Banner (posthumously).

Born on December 29, 1950 in the village of Novopoltava, Klyuchevsky District, Altai Territory. She graduated from a boarding school (where a monument was erected to her after her death) in the village of Ponino, Glazovsky district, Udmurt ASSR. From December 1968 she worked as a flight attendant of the Sukhumi air squadron.

She was killed by Pranas Brazinskas on October 15, 1970, trying to prevent the hijacking by him and his 15-year-old son Algirdas of the An-24 aircraft (board USSR-46256), flying on flight number 244 Batumi - Sukhumi - Krasnodar. Exactly three months later, Nadezhda was supposed to have a wedding.

Memory

Streets in a number of cities on the territory of the former USSR are named in honor of Nadezhda Kurchenko.
The name of Nadezhda Kurchenko was given to one of the peaks of the Gissar ridge, a tanker of the Russian fleet and an asteroid.
In the village of Novopoltava in the Altai Territory, next to the school, which was named after Nadezhda Kurchenko, a monument was erected in her honor. A museum of Nadezhda Kurchenko was created at the school.
Since 1982, a race in memory of Nadezhda Kurchenko has been held annually in Glazov, in October. The memorial run is included in the All-Russian calendar of athletics competitions. Athletes of all ages from Izhevsk, cities and rural areas of Udmurtia and representatives from other cities of Russia take part in the run at distances of 3 and 10 kilometers.
A museum of Nadezhda Kurchenko was created at the school of young pilots in Izhevsk.
In the mountains, on the border of Abkhazia and Krasnodar Territory an obelisk to Nadezhda Kurchenko was installed.
Feature film "Applicant" (Film Studio named after A. Dovzhenko, director Alexei Mishurin)

October 15, 2015 marks the 45th anniversary of the death of 19-year-old flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko, who at the cost of her own life tried to prevent the seizure of a Soviet passenger plane by terrorists.

45 years since the feat soviet stewardess Nadezhda Kurchenko

This was the first hijacking of a passenger aircraft of this scale. With him, in essence, began a long-term series of similar tragedies, which splattered the skies of the whole world with the blood of innocent people.

And it all started like that.
An-24 took to the skies from the Batumi airfield on October 15, 1970 at 12:30. The course is to Sukhumi. There were 46 passengers and 5 crew members on board. Flight time according to the schedule is 25-30 minutes.
But life broke both the schedule and the schedule.
At the 4th minute of the flight, the plane deviated sharply from the course. Radio operators asked for the board - there was no response. Communication with the control tower was interrupted. The plane was leaving in the direction of close Turkey.
Military and rescue boats went out to sea. Their captains received an order: to follow at full speed to the place of a possible disaster.
The board did not respond to any of the requests. A few more minutes - and the An-24 left the airspace of the USSR. And in the sky above the Turkish coastal airfield Trabzon, two missiles flashed - red, then green. It was the emergency landing signal. The plane touched the concrete pier of a foreign air harbor.
Telegraph agencies around the world immediately reported: a Soviet passenger plane had been hijacked. The flight attendant was killed, there are wounded. Everything.

Remembers Georgy Chakhrakiya - the commander of the An-24, No. 46256, who performed on October 15, 1970 a flight on the Batumi-Sukhumi route - I remember everything. I remember thoroughly.
Such things are not forgotten, - On that day I said to Nadya: “We agreed that in life you would consider us your brothers. So why aren't you being frank with us?
I know that soon I will have to take a walk at the wedding ... ”- the pilot recalls with sadness. - The girl raised her blue eyes, smiled and said: "Yes, probably for the November holidays." I was delighted and, shaking the wings of the plane, shouted at the top of my voice: “Guys! On holidays we go to the wedding! "... And in an hour I knew that there would be no wedding ...

Today, 45 years later, I intend to re - at least briefly - recount the events of those days and again speak about Nadya Kurchenko, her courage and her heroism. To tell about the stunning reaction of millions of people of the so-called stagnant time to sacrifice, courage, and courage of a person. To tell about this first of all to the people of the new generation, the new computer consciousness, to tell how it was, because my generation remembers and knows this story, and most importantly - Nadia Kurchenko - and without reminders. And young people should know why many streets, schools, mountain peaks and even an airplane bear her name.
... After takeoff, greetings and instructions to the passengers, the flight attendant returned to her work room, a narrow compartment. She opened a bottle of Borjomi and, letting the water shoot with sparkling tiny cannonballs, filled four plastic cups for the crew. Putting them on a tray, I entered the cockpit.

The crew was always glad to have a beautiful, young, extremely friendly girl in the cockpit. Probably, she felt this attitude towards herself and, of course, was happy too. Perhaps, in this hour of her death, she thought with warmth and gratitude about each of these guys, who easily accepted her into their professional and friendly circle. They treated her like a younger sister, with care and trust.
Of course, Nadia was in a wonderful mood - everyone who saw her in the last minutes of her pure, happy life said.
After getting the crew drunk, she returned to her compartment. At that moment, the call rang: one of the passengers called the flight attendant. She came over. The passenger said:
- Tell the commander urgently, - and handed her an envelope.

She only managed to take a step towards the cockpit when he opened the door of her compartment, which she had just closed.
- You can't come here! she screamed.
But he approached like the shadow of a beast. She understood: the enemy was in front of her. In the next second he understood too: she would break all plans.
Nadia screamed again.
And at the same instant, having slammed the cockpit door, she turned to face the enraged bandit and prepared for the attack. He, like the crew members, heard her words - no doubt. What was there to do? Nadia made a decision: not to let the attacker into the cockpit at any cost. Any!
He could be a maniac and shoot the crew. He could have killed the crew and passengers. He could ... She did not know his actions, his intentions. And he knew: jumping to her, he tried to knock her down. Resting her hands on the wall, Nadia held on and continued to resist.

The first bullet hit her in the thigh. She pressed even more tightly against the pilot's door. The terrorist tried to squeeze her throat. Nadia - knock the weapon out of his right hand.
A stray bullet went into the ceiling. Nadya fought back with her feet, hands, even her head.
The crew assessed the situation instantly. The commander abruptly interrupted the right turn, in which they were at the moment of the attack, and immediately overwhelmed the roaring car to the left, and then to the right. The next second the plane went up steeply: the pilots tried to knock down the attacker, believing that his experience in this matter was not great, and Nadia would hold out.
The passengers were still with belts - after all, the scoreboard did not go out, the plane was only gaining altitude.
In the cabin, seeing a passenger rushing to the cockpit and hearing the first shot, several people instantly unfastened their seat belts and jumped out of their seats. Two of them were closest to the place where the criminal was sitting, and the first to feel the trouble. Galina Kiryak and Aslan Kaishanba, however, did not have time to take a step: they were outstripped by the one who was sitting next to the one who had fled into the cabin. The young bandit - and he was much younger than the first, for they turned out to be father and son - pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and fired along the cabin. The bullet whizzed over the heads of the shocked passengers.
- Don `t move! he yelled. - Do not move!

The pilots began to throw the plane from one position to another with even greater sharpness. Young shot again. The bullet pierced the fuselage skin and exited through.
Depressurization did not threaten the aircraft yet - the height was insignificant.
Opening the cockpit, she shouted to the crew with all her might:
- Attack! He's armed!
The next moment after the second shot, the young man opened his gray cloak and people saw grenades - they were tied to their belt.
- This is for you! he shouted. - If anyone else gets up - blow up the plane!
It was obvious that this was not an empty threat - if they failed, they had nothing to lose.
Meanwhile, despite the evolution of the aircraft, the elder remained on his feet and, with animal fury, tried to tear Nadia away from the cockpit door. He needed a commander. He needed a crew. He needed a plane.
Struck by the incredible resistance of Nadia, enraged by his own powerlessness to cope with the wounded, bloody fragile girl, without aiming, without thinking for a second, he fired point-blank and, throwing the desperate defender of the crew and passengers into the corner of the narrow passage, burst into the cockpit. Behind him - his geek with a sawed-off.
Then there was the massacre. Their shots were muffled by their own cries:
- To Turkey! To Turkey! Return to the Soviet coast - blow up the plane!

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The purpose of this article is to find out how the tragic death of the Soviet stewardess NADESHA KURCHENKO is embedded in her FULL NAME code.

Watch preliminary "Logicology - about the fate of man".

Consider the tables of the FULL NAME code. \\ If your screen has an offset of numbers and letters, adjust the image scale \\.

11 31 48 72 78 92 103 118 132 133 138 144 152 157 158 161 173 174 179 189 202 212 229 244 247 261 262
K U R CH E N K O N A D E Z D A V L A D I M I R O V N A
262 251 231 214 190 184 170 159 144 130 129 124 118 110 105 104 101 89 88 83 73 60 50 33 18 15 1

14 15 20 26 34 39 40 43 55 56 61 71 84 94 111 126 129 143 144 155 175 192 216 222 236 247 262
N A D E G D A V L A D I M I R O V N A K U R CH E N K O
262 248 247 242 236 228 223 222 219 207 206 201 191 178 168 151 136 133 119 118 107 87 70 46 40 26 15

KURCHENKO NADEZHDA VLADIMIROVNA \u003d 262.

K (end) + U (bit) + (vyst) R (elom) (law) CHE (na) (life) N (b) + KO (nets) + NA (na) DE (nie) + (neo) F (i) YES (nny) In (quick) L + (r) A (nenie) (ser) D (tsa) + (as a result) I (e) (herbs) M (s) I (anger) (k) ROV (and) + (cum) ON

262 \u003d K, + U, +, P, CHE, N, + KO, + HA, DE, +, F, YES, V, L +, A, D, +, I, M, I, ROV, +, ON.

16 48 67 81 82 87 110 111 130 145 151 166 177 196 228 230 247 279
P Z T N A D C A T O E O C T Z B R Z
279 263 231 212 198 197 192 169 168 149 134 128 113 102 83 51 49 32

In-depth decryption offers the following option, in which all columns match:

P (dropping) I + (fire) T (real) (pa) HA (ser) DCA + (death) T (eln) O (e) (injured) E + O (t) (proni) K (aeg) ( fire) T (real) (injured) I (gi) B (spruce) + (sm) R (seriously) (injured) I

279 \u003d P, I, T, HA, DCA +, T, O, E + O, K, T, Z, B, +, R, Z.

48 \u003d PY (fifteenth ...)
______________________________
231 \u003d (5th) OCTOBER THIRTEENTH

48 \u003d (in y) POR
_______________________________
231 \u003d HEART SHOT UNDERSTANDING

The code for the number of full YEARS OF LIFE is NINETEEN \u003d 157.

5 11 14 46 65 79 80 85 108 109 128 157
NINETEEN
157 152 146 143 111 92 78 77 72 49 48 29

262 \u003d 157-NINETEEN + 105-DEAD.

157 - 105 \u003d 52 \u003d KILLED.

In-depth decryption offers the following option, in which all columns match:

(former) DEV (belt) I (death) T (b) + (og) N (fire) (ran) A (ser) DTSA + (death) th

157 \u003d, DEV, I, T, +, H, A, DTSA +, Tb.

We look at the column in the upper table of the FULL NAME code:

157 \u003d NINETEEN
____________________________
110 \u003d (damage) HEART (s)

157 \u003d 87- (ny) LEFT WOUND + 70-DAMAGE (s ...)
______________________________________________
110 \u003d (damage) HEART (s)

157 \u003d DIED FIRST (at the same time)
__________________________________
110 \u003d (died) SHAYA BEFORE (at the same time)

October 15 will mark the 45th anniversary of the death of 19-year-old flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko, who at the cost of her own life tried to prevent the seizure of a Soviet passenger plane by terrorists. The story of the heroic death of a young girl awaits you further.

This was the first time a passenger plane was hijacked on this scale. With him, in essence, began a long-term series of similar tragedies, which splattered the skies of the whole world with the blood of innocent people.
And it all started like that.
An-24 took to the skies from the Batumi airfield on October 15, 1970 at 12:30. The course is to Sukhumi. There were 46 passengers and 5 crew members on board. The scheduled flight time is 25-30 minutes.
But life broke both the schedule and the schedule.
On the 4th minute of the flight, the plane deviated sharply from the course. Radio operators asked for the board - there was no response. Communication with the control tower was interrupted. The plane was leaving in the direction of close Turkey.
Military and rescue boats went out to sea. Their captains received an order: to follow at full speed to the place of a possible disaster.
The board did not respond to any of the requests. A few more minutes - and the An-24 left the airspace of the USSR. And in the sky above the Turkish coastal airfield of Trabzon, two missiles flashed - red, then green. It was the emergency landing signal. The plane touched the concrete pier of a foreign air harbor. Telegraph agencies all over the world immediately reported: a Soviet passenger plane had been hijacked. The flight attendant was killed, there are wounded. Everything.

Remembers Georgy Chakhrakia - the commander of the An-24 crew, No. 46256, who performed on October 15, 1970, a flight on the Batumi-Sukhumi route - I remember everything. I remember thoroughly.
Such things are not forgotten, - On that day I said to Nadya: “We agreed that in life you would consider us your brothers. So why aren't you being frank with us? I know that soon I will have to take a walk at the wedding ... ”- the pilot recalls with sadness. - The girl raised her blue eyes, smiled and said: "Yes, probably for the November holidays." I was delighted and, shaking the wings of the plane, shouted at the top of my voice: “Guys! On holidays we go to the wedding! "... And in an hour I knew that there would be no wedding ...
Today, 45 years later, I intend to once again - at least briefly - recount the events of those days and again speak about Nadya Kurchenko, her courage and her heroism. To tell about the stunning reaction of millions of people of the so-called stagnant time to sacrifice, courage, and courage of a person. To tell about this first of all to the people of the new generation, the new computer consciousness, to tell how it was, because my generation remembers and knows this story, and most importantly - Nadia Kurchenko - and without reminders. And young people should know why many streets, schools, mountain peaks and even an airplane bear her name.
... After takeoff, greetings and instructions to the passengers, the flight attendant returned to her work room, a narrow compartment. She opened a bottle of Borjomi and, letting the water shoot with sparkling tiny cannonballs, filled four plastic cups for the crew. Putting them on a tray, I entered the cockpit.
The crew was always glad to have a beautiful, young, extremely friendly girl in the cockpit. Probably, she felt this attitude towards herself and, of course, was happy too. Perhaps, in this hour of her death, she thought with warmth and gratitude about each of these guys, who easily accepted her into their professional and friendly circle. They treated her like a younger sister, with care and trust.
Of course, Nadia was in a wonderful mood - everyone who saw her in the last minutes of her pure, happy life said.
After getting the crew drunk, she returned to her compartment. At that moment, the call rang: one of the passengers called the flight attendant. She came over. The passenger said:
- Tell the commander urgently, - and handed her an envelope.

At 12.40. Five minutes after takeoff (at an altitude of about 800 meters), the man and the guy sitting in the front seats called the flight attendant and gave her an envelope: "Tell the crew commander!" The envelope contained the "Order No. 9" typed:
1. I order to fly along the indicated route.
2. Cut off radio communication.
3. For failure to comply with the order - Death.
(Free Europe) P.K.Z.Ts.
General (Krylov)
There was a stamp on the sheet, on which it was written in Lithuanian: "... rajono valdybos kooperatyvas" ("cooperative of the administration ... of the district"). the man was dressed in the dress uniform of a Soviet officer.
Nadia took the envelope. Their gazes must have met. She must have wondered at the tone of the words. But she did not find out anything, but stepped to the luggage compartment door - further on was the door of the pilot's cabin. Nadia's feelings were probably written on her face - most likely. And the sensitivity of the wolf, alas, surpasses any other. And, probably, thanks to this sensitivity, the terrorist saw in Nadia's eyes hostility, subconscious suspicion, a shadow of danger. This turned out to be enough for the sick imagination to announce the alarm: failure, sentence, exposure. Self-control refused: he literally ejected from the chair and rushed after Nadia.
She had only managed to take a step towards the cockpit when he opened the door to her compartment, which she had just closed.
- You can't come here! she screamed.
But he approached like the shadow of a beast. She understood: the enemy was in front of her. In the next second he understood too: she would break all plans.
Nadia screamed again.
And at the same instant, having slammed the cockpit door, she turned to face the enraged bandit and prepared for the attack. He, as well as the members of the crew, heard her words - no doubt. What was left to do? Nadia made a decision: not to let the attacker into the cockpit at any cost. Any!
He could be a maniac and shoot the crew. He could have killed the crew and passengers. He could ... She did not know his actions, his intentions. And he knew: jumping to her, he tried to knock her down. Resting her hands on the wall, Nadia held on and continued to resist.
The first bullet hit her in the thigh. She pressed even more tightly against the pilot's door. The terrorist tried to squeeze her throat. Nadia - knock the weapon out of his right hand. A stray bullet went into the ceiling. Nadya fought back with her feet, hands, even her head.
The crew assessed the situation instantly. The commander abruptly interrupted the right turn, in which they were at the moment of the attack, and immediately overwhelmed the roaring car to the left, and then to the right. In the next second, the plane went steeply upward: the pilots tried to knock down the attacker, believing that his experience in this matter was not great, and Nadia would hold out.
The passengers were still with belts - after all, the board did not go out, the plane was only gaining altitude.
In the cabin, seeing a passenger rushing to the cabin and hearing the first shot, several people instantly unfastened their seat belts and jumped out of their seats. Two of them were closest to the place where the criminal was sitting, and the first to feel the trouble. Galina Kiryak and Aslan Kaishanba, however, did not have time to take a step: they were outstripped by the one who was sitting next to the one who had fled into the cockpit. The young bandit - and he was much younger than the first, for they turned out to be father and son - pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and fired along the cabin. A bullet whizzed over the heads of the shocked passengers.
- Don `t move! he yelled. - Do not move!
The pilots began to throw from one position to another with even greater sharpness. Young shot again. The bullet pierced the fuselage skin and exited through. Depressurization of the aircraft was not yet threatened - the height was insignificant.
Opening the cockpit, she shouted to the crew with all her might:
- Attack! He's armed!
The next moment after the second shot, the young man opened his gray cloak and people saw grenades - they were tied to their belt.
- This is for you! he shouted. - If anyone else gets up - blow up the plane!
It was obvious that this was not an empty threat - if they failed, they had nothing to lose.
Meanwhile, despite the evolution of the aircraft, the elder remained on his feet and with bestial fury tried to tear Nadia away from the cockpit door. He needed a commander. He needed a crew. He needed a plane.
Struck by the incredible resistance of Nadia, enraged by his own powerlessness to cope with the wounded, bloody fragile girl, without aiming, without thinking for a second, he fired point-blank and, throwing the desperate defender of the crew and passengers into the corner of the narrow passage, burst into the cockpit. Behind him - his geek with a sawed-off.
Then there was the massacre. Their shots were muffled by their own cries:
- To Turkey! To Turkey! Return to the Soviet coast - blow up the plane!

Bullets flew from the cockpit. One walked through my hair, - says Vladimir Gavrilovich Merenkov from Leningrad. He and his wife were passengers on an ill-fated flight in 1970. - I saw: the bandits had pistols, a hunting rifle, one grenade from the elder was hanging on his chest. The plane threw left and right - the pilots probably hoped that the criminals would not stand on their feet.
The shooting continued in the cockpit. Then they will count 18 holes, and a total of 24 bullets were fired. One of them hit the commander in the spine:
Georgy Chakhrakia - My legs have gone away. Through efforts, I turned around and saw a terrible picture, Nadya was lying motionless on the floor in the door of our cabin and was bleeding. Navigator Fadeev lay nearby. And behind us stood a man and, shaking a grenade, shouted: “Keep the seashore on the left! Heading south! Do not enter the clouds! Obey, or else we'll blow up the plane! "
The offender did not stand on ceremony. Tore off the radio communication headphones from the pilots. Trampled over the lying bodies. Flight mechanic Hovhannes Babayan was wounded in the chest. The co-pilot Suliko Shavidze was also shot, but he was lucky - the bullet got stuck in the steel tube of the seat back. When navigator Valery Fadeev came to his senses (his lungs were shot), the bandit cursed and kicked the seriously wounded man.
Vladimir Gavrilovich Merenkov - I said to my wife: "We are flying towards Turkey!" - and was scared that when approaching the border we might be shot down. The wife also remarked: “The sea is under us. You feel good. You can swim, but I can't! " And I thought, “What a stupid death! I went through the whole war, signed on the Reichstag - and on you! "
The pilots still managed to turn on the SOS signal.
Giorgi Chakhrakia - I told the bandits: “I am wounded, my legs are paralyzed. I can only control my hands. The co-pilot must help me. ”And the bandit replied:“ Everything happens in war. We may perish. " Even the thought flashed to send "Annushka" to the rocks - to die ourselves and finish off these bastards. But there are forty-four people in the cabin, including seventeen women and one child.
I said to the co-pilot: “If I lose consciousness, navigate the ship at the request of the bandits and land. We must save the plane and passengers! We tried to land on Soviet territory, in Kobuleti, where there was a military airfield. But the hijacker, when he saw where I was directing the car, warned that he would shoot me and blow up the ship. I made a decision to cross the border. And in five minutes we crossed it at low altitude.
... The airfield in Trabzon was found visually. This was not difficult for the pilots.
Giorgi Chakhrakia - We made a circle and fired green rockets, making it clear to free the strip. We entered from the side of the mountains and sat down so that, should something happen, land on the sea. We were immediately cordoned off. The co-pilot opened the front doors and the Turks entered. In the cockpit, the bandits surrendered. All this time, until the locals appeared, we were at gunpoint ...
Leaving the passenger compartment after the passengers, the senior bandit knocked on the car with his fist: "This plane is now ours!"
The Turks provided medical assistance to all crew members. They immediately offered those wishing to stay in Turkey, but none of the 49 Soviet citizens agreed.
The next day, all the passengers and the body of Nadia Kurchenko were taken to the Soviet Union. A little later, the stolen An-24 was overtaken.
For courage and heroism, Nadezhda Kurchenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, a passenger plane, an asteroid, schools, streets, and so on were named after Nadia. But it should be said, apparently, about something else.
The scale of state and public action associated with the unprecedented event was enormous. Members of the State Commission and the USSR Foreign Ministry conducted negotiations with the Turkish authorities for several days in a row without a single break.
It followed: to allocate an air corridor for the return of the hijacked aircraft; an air corridor for transporting injured crew members and passengers in need of urgent medical attention from Trabzon hospitals; of course, and those who did not suffer physically, but ended up in a foreign land not of their own free will; an air corridor was required for a special flight from Trabzon to Sukhumi with Nadia's body. Her mother had already flown to Sukhumi from Udmurtia.

Nadezhda's mother Henrietta Ivanovna Kurchenko tells: - I immediately asked that Nadya be buried in our Udmurtia. But I was not allowed. They said that from a political point of view, this cannot be done.
And for twenty years I went to Sukhumi every year at the expense of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. In 1989, my grandson and I came for the last time, and there the war began. Abkhazians fought with Georgians, and the grave was neglected. We walked to Nadya on foot, we were shooting nearby - all kinds of things happened ... And then I cheekily wrote a letter to Gorbachev: "If you don't help transport Nadia, I'll go and hang myself on her grave!" A year later, the daughter was reburied at the city cemetery in Glazov. They wanted to bury it separately, on Kalinin Street, and rename the street in honor of Nadia. But I didn’t allow it. She died for people. And I want her to lie with people ..

Immediately after the hijacking in the USSR, scant TASS reports appear:
“On October 15, the plane of the civil air fleet“ An-24 ”made a regular flight from the city of Batumi to Sukhumi. Two armed bandits, using weapons against the crew of the plane, forced the plane to change its route and land on the territory of Turkey in the city of Trabzon. During the fight with the bandits, a flight attendant of the plane was killed, who was trying to block the bandits' way into the pilot's cabin. Two pilots were injured. The passengers on the plane are unharmed. The Soviet government appealed to the Turkish authorities with a request to extradite the killer criminals to be brought to the Soviet court, as well as to return the plane and Soviet citizens who were on board the An-24 plane.
The “tassovka” that appeared the next day, October 17, announced that the aircraft crew and passengers had been returned to their homeland. True, the navigator of the plane who underwent the operation, who was seriously wounded in the chest, remained in the Trabzon hospital. The names of the hijackers were not named: “As for the two criminals who carried out an armed attack on the crew of the plane, as a result of which the flight attendant N.V. Kurchenko was killed, two crew members and one passenger were wounded, the Turkish government announced that they were arrested and the prosecutor's office was given an instruction to conduct an urgent investigation of the circumstances of the case ”.

The general public became aware of the personalities of the air pirates only on November 5 after a press conference by the USSR Prosecutor General Rudenko.
Brazinskas Pranas Stasio born in 1924 and Brazinskas Algirdas born in 1955
Pranas Brazinskas was born in 1924 in the Trakai region of Lithuania.
According to the biography written by Brazinskas in 1949, the "forest brothers" shot through the window the chairman of the council and fatally wounded P. Brazinskas' father who happened to be nearby. With the help of local authorities P. Brazinskas bought a house in Vievis and in 1952 became the head of the warehouse of household goods of the Vevis cooperative. In 1955, P. Brazinskas was sentenced to 1 year of correctional labor for embezzlement and speculation in building materials. In January 1965, by decision of the Supreme Court, he was again sentenced to 5 years, but in June he was released early. Having divorced his first wife, he left for Central Asia.
He was engaged in speculation (in Lithuania he bought car parts, carpets, silk and linen fabrics and sent them in parcels to Central Asia, for each parcel he made a profit of 400-500 rubles), quickly saved up money. In 1968 he brought his thirteen-year-old son Algirdas to Kokand, and two years later he left his second wife.
On October 7-13, 1970, having visited Vilnius for the last time, P. Brazinskas and his son took their luggage - it is not known where the acquired weapons, accumulated dollars (according to the KGB, more than 6,000 dollars) and flew to the Caucasus.

In October 1970, the USSR demanded that Turkey immediately extradite the criminals, but this demand was not met. The Turks decided to judge the hijackers themselves. The Trabzon Court of First Instance did not find the attack deliberate. In his defense, Pranas claimed that they had hijacked the plane in the face of death, allegedly threatening him for participating in the “Lithuanian Resistance”. And they sentenced 45-year-old Pranas Brazinskas to eight years in prison, and his 13-year-old son Algirdas to two. In May 1974, his father fell under an amnesty law and Brazinskas Sr.'s imprisonment was replaced with house arrest. In the same year, father and son allegedly escaped from house arrest and turned to the American Embassy in Turkey with a request to grant them political asylum in the United States. Having received a refusal, the Brazinskas again surrendered to the Turkish police, where they were kept for a couple of weeks and ... finally released. Then they flew to Canada via Italy and Venezuela. During a stopover in New York, the Brazinskas got off the plane and were "detained" by the US Migration and Naturalization Service. They were never granted the status of political refugees, but to begin with, they were provided with a residence permit, and in 1983 both were given American passports. Algirdas officially became Albert Victor White, and Pranas became Frank White.
Henrietta Ivanovna Kurchenko - Seeking to extradite the Brazinskas, I even went to a meeting with Reagan at the American embassy. They told me that they were looking for my father because he lives illegally in the United States. And the son received American citizenship. And he cannot be punished. Nadia was killed in 1970, and the law on the extradition of bandits, wherever they were, was allegedly passed in 1974. And there will be no return ...
The Brazinskas settled in the town of Santa Monica in California, where they worked as ordinary painters. In America, the Lithuanian community's attitude towards the Brazinskas was wary, they were openly afraid of them. An attempt to organize a fundraising for the fund of their own help failed. In the United States, the Brazinskas wrote a book about their "exploits" in which they tried to justify the hijacking and hijacking of the plane as "the struggle for the liberation of Lithuania from the Soviet occupation." To whitewash himself, P. Brazinskas stated that he had hit the flight attendant by accident, in a "shootout with the crew." Even later, A. Brazinskas claimed that the flight attendant had died during a "shootout with KGB agents" However, the support of the Brazinskas by Lithuanian organizations gradually faded away, everyone forgot about them. Real life in the United States was very different from what they expected. The criminals lived miserably, under old age Brazinskas Sr. became irritable and unbearable.
In early February 2002, the 911 call in Santa Monica, California rang. The caller hung up immediately. The police identified the address they were calling from and arrived at 900 21st Street. The door for the police was opened by 46-year-old Albert Victor White and led the lawmen to the cold corpse of his 77-year-old father. On whose head, forensic experts later counted eight blows from a dumbbell. In Santa Monica, murder is rare - it was the first violent death in the city that year.
JACK ALEX. attorney for Brazinskas Jr.
“I am a Lithuanian myself, and I was hired by his wife Virginia to protect Albert Victor White. There is a fairly large Lithuanian diaspora here in California, and don't think that we, Lithuanians, support the hijacking of the 1970 plane in any way.
- Pranas was a terrible person, it happened, in fits of rage, he chased the neighboring children with weapons.
- Algirdas is a normal and sane person. At the time of the capture, he was only 15 years old, and he hardly knew what he was doing. He spent his whole life in the shadow of his father's dubious charisma, and now, through his own fault, he will rot in prison.
- It was necessary self-defense. The father pointed a pistol at him, threatening to shoot his son if he left him. But Algirdas knocked out his weapon and hit the old man on the head several times.
- The jury considered that, having knocked out the pistol, Algirdas could not have killed the old man, since he was very weak. Another thing against Algirdas was the fact that he called the police only a day after the incident - all this time he was next to the corpse.
- Algirdas was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the article “premeditated murder of the second degree”
- I know that this does not sound like a lawyer, but let me express my condolences to Algirdas. The last time I saw him, he was in a terrible depression. The father terrorized his son as best he could, and when the tyrant finally died, Algirdas, a man in his prime, will rot for many years in prison. Apparently, this is fate ...

Nadezhda Vladimirovna Kurchenko (1950-1970)
She was born on December 29, 1950 in the village of Novo-Poltava in the Klyuchevsky district of the Altai Territory. She graduated from a boarding school in the village of Ponino, Glazovsky district of the Ukrainian ASSR. Since December 1968 she has been a flight attendant of the Sukhumi air squadron. She died on October 15, 1970, trying to prevent terrorists from hijacking an aircraft. In 1970 she was buried in the center of Sukhumi. After 20 years, her grave was transferred to the city cemetery of Glazov. She was awarded (posthumously) the Order of the Red Banner. The name of Nadezhda Kurchenko was given to one of the peaks of the Gissar ridge, a tanker of the Russian fleet and a small planet.

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