Yuri Vasilev biography

In March, after the father’s transfer to the combat training of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, the Vasilevsky family settled in Moscow forever. In the year, Yuri's parents divorced and he remained to live with his mother - Vasilevskaya in girlishness - Voronova Seraphim Nikolaevna - only by the year Yuri Vasilevsky restored relations with his father and all his future life continued to maintain love and respect not only to his father, but also to his second family.

Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky was aware of the life of his son and helped the former family financially, but no one held a young man in the Golden Cage. In October, at the insistence of Alexander Mikhailovich, Serafima Nikolaevna and Yuri went to evacuation, and only a year later they returned to Moscow.

At the end of the year, Yuri Aleksandrovich Vasilevsky was drafted into the ranks of the Workers' Red Army and was enrolled in the school of aviation mechanics in the city of Miass of the Chelyabinsk Region. Not quite what Yuri was thinking about, since he urged the leadership of the military commissariat to send him to a flying school and nevertheless, a tile, the young man was in aviation.

Difficult conditions are poor -quality food, the climate did their "black" business. By the spring of GUR Vasilevsky, pneumonia of the lungs began, which, with a weakened body, turned into an open form of tuberculosis. He did not turn to the doctors, trying to endure the disease steadfastly, urgently, he was called by his father to Moscow, who felt that something was not landing with his son.

After prolonged treatment, Yuri Vasilevsky got into operation and continued to serve in one of the parts of the 3rd Belorussian Front under the command of his father. Yuri Aleksandrovich Vasilevsky graduated from the team faculty of the Air Force Academy in the village of Monino near Moscow in - years was named after Yu. Gagarin - approx. He served in officer and command positions in the group of Soviet troops in Germany, at the headquarters of distant aviation, in the Turkestan and Central Asian military districts in Tashkent and Alma -Ata - respectively.

From GO for the year, Yu. Vasilevsky was the chief of staff-the first deputy chief of the 1st Scientific Research Subject Center for the Training of Cosmonauts named after Yu. The name of Yuri Alexandrovich Vasilevsky is associated with the development of the Center for the training of astronauts, the construction of new facilities and the improvement of the town, the development of the simulator base during the preparation of crews under the program of the joint Soviet-American space flight "Apollo".

From February, before resigning, he served as inspector General of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR and oversaw the issues of military-technical cooperation with a number of foreign countries. About the family of Yu. Their eldest daughter - Vasilevskaya Alexandra Yuryevna - was buried next to her grandmother G. Zhukov in Moscow, in the Novodevichy cemetery.

There is no number to the merits of Marshal of the Soviet Union A. Vasilevsky before the Fatherland, and even a simple list of his military titles and awards will take a lot of time. A huge number of books are written about his exploits, films have been shot, but in this book he will also appear before us as a respectable family man and sensitive father. Vera Borisovna Vasilevskaya, the wife of Lieutenant General Yuri Aleksandrovich Vasilevsky, talks about how the example and support of the famous father influenced the choice of his son’s life path, how he supported and directed him, having eventually received many reasons to truly be proud of his son.

The book has many interesting facts from the life of Vasilevsky, documents and materials released for the first time, as well as exclusive photographs from the family archive. Their daughter is Anna Igorevna Vasilevskaya, Deputy Head of the Department of Organization of Medical Expertise and Technical Regulation of the Department of Organization of Emergency Medical Affairs and Expert Activities of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.