Memory of The Hero
By tradition of pilots, a note had been thrown down from a German airplane and it is reported that Germans buried the crew of the airplane with military honours.
Recently, the cemetery of the fallen airplane crew was found in a German cemetery in Borun village. Apparently, Russian pilots were reburied in this cemetery in the 1930s, when the Polish government provided German military burials, with the participation Germans. These words were written on gravestone cross in Polish: «4 NIEZNANYCH ROS.LOTN.25.16», which means: “4 unknown Russian pilots were buried 25.16”. The date was written according to the European calendar. The month of burial was missing in the inscription, but it wasn’t written on other gravestone crosses, either. There lay the heroes and pilots:
•Lieutenant Maksheev Dmitri Dmitriyevich;
•Lieutenant Rakhlin Mitrofan Alekseyevich;
•Lieutenant Gayibov Farrukh;
•Lieutenant Karpov Oleg Sergryevich.
In 1971, Pavel Kutakhov, the Chief Aviation Marshall, was elected as deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from the Gazakh-Tovuz electoral district. After archival cross-referencing and adjustments, Pavel Kutakhov sent the hero to his motherland. He also arranged for the erection of a monument to the Mig-15 fighter, with a memorial plaque which read: “In memory of the first Azerbaijani pilot Farrukh agha Gayibov”. Later, the inscription on the plaque was changed to: “In memory of those killed in the Great Patriotic War”.
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