Honored military pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, former USSR Air Force (VVS) Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Aviation Colonel General Vasily Reshetnikov died at the age of 104. This was reported in the press service Warlords Club Russia.
“He died on March 20, 2023, in the 104th year of his life. <…> Reshetnikov,” the message says.
On behalf of the Club Council, President of the Military Leaders Club Anatoly Kulikov expressed his condolences to the relatives and friends of the deceased.
It was previously known that he was 93 years old. dead The last chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the RSFSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, former director of the Sokol aircraft manufacturing plant Ivan Silaev. Over the years of his career, as Minister of the Aviation Industry, he led the creation of many aircraft, led the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.