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Timofey Khryukin
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Timofey Timofeyevich Khryukin (Тимофе́й Тимофе́евич Хрю́кин; , in Yeysk 19 July 1953, in Moscow) was a Soviet aviator, Spanish Civil War volunteer, and colonel-general of the Soviet Air Force. Emerging from an impoverished working-class background, he rose to command the 8th Air Army and 1st Air Army during the Second World War, being twice decorated as a Hero of the Soviet Union before his death following a period of illness caused by a road accident.
Khryukin was born on in the southern town of Yeysk in the Kuban Oblast (present-day Krasnodar Krai) of Imperial Russia into a poverty-stricken family. Khryukin's father worked a mason; his mother assisted supporting the family as a laundrywoman working for petty wages. At the age of eight he began working for well-off cossacks, but due to abuse he eventually ran off, spending several years wandering the countryside in the years preceding the Bolshevik Revolution. His formal education did not began until at age 15 in the midst of the socialist campaigns to eradicate illiteracy; around that time he found employment in various jobs involving manual labor, including as a porter and railway depot employee.
After joining the Komsomol in 1926, he made his way to regional secretary of the organization and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1929. Following a brief stint at an agricultural school, he joined the Red Army and entered flight school in 1932.
Joining the Red Army in May 1932, he was sent to the Voroshilovgrad Military Aviation School for Pilots in Luhansk, where he trained for eight months. Graduating in December 1933, he became a pilot and flight commander in the 5th Light Bomber Aviation Squadron at Vitebsk in the Belorussian Military District. In December 1935 he was transferred to serve as a flight commander in the 10th High-Speed Bomber Aviation Squadron of the district at Smolensk, flying the Tupolev SB.
Khryukin went to Spain as a volunteer for the Spanish Republican Air Force in October 1936.
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