Sergey Isayevich Utochkin (1876-1916) one of the first Russian aviators , an outstanding athlete (boxing , wrestling, swimming, fencing , etc.), symbolic figure of his time. Russian Champion and winner of the Grand Prix International Competition in Lisbon in cycling .In the mid- 1900s was engaged in ballooning balloon in Odessa , and then over the Sahara . Felt gliders, but with 1910 aircraft . During these years, gained fame throughout the empire. The greatest humanist : During a bloody pogrom in 1905 he was wounded thugs when defending an old Jew.A favorite of Odessa during lifetime and forever .
He skillfully drove a motorcycle, car , was an excellent soccer player, fencer and boxer, cyclist and runner, skater and sailor Excellent swimming, cross the Gulf of Odessa from Langeron to Kryzhanovka , but especially famous as one of the first aviators in Russia.
In recognition of the Sergei Solzhenitsyn , he successfully engaged in 15 sports. Polymath , Sergei Utochkin , not knowing fear, take any obstacle and overcome any obstacles. Aviation was his highest happiness and tragedy. He foresaw the future and not try to change anything .
I want to fly , to defy nature, he wrote. The instinct of combat , which owns all life, attracts me to this fight , I for one only dangerous , bloodless for others.Sooner or later I have to merge with nature , but until that happens I will make fun of her in every way and , in revenge for the impending inevitability of embracing all of it, to possess.
And it is fully owned by it , having made at the beginning of the twentieth century, 150 flights to 70 cities in Russia.
remained shiny and describe the severity of the flight , hand written letters mature Utochkina :.
I think I've always yearned for the feeling is that now constitute my identity, belonging lucky , permeated the air. I often had to fly in a dream and the dream was ravishing .The validity of the power and brilliance of experience exceeds fantastic dream , and there is a world of colors that can be painted bright enough powerful moments of beauty that can be so long.
Utochkin friends with AI Kuprin , whom he met at the zenith of his fame in Odessa.They both had a passion for the sky, and made a famous flight over two of Odessa on one of the first time airplanes.
peak of fame and the rock fell on the fate of the aviator in 1911 . Exactly 95 years ago, 2 (15) July in Odessa the exhibition over the sea it was made of the 100th anniversary flight .A short time later , the same happened in 1911 an unsuccessful flight Petersburg Moscow . The fall and serious injury interrupted his career and later life triumphant .
Sergey Utochkin knew everything and unprecedented glory and honor , the bitterness of neglect and indifference.
Utochkin Intrepid , a dreamer and romantic, in love with the sun and sea, and most of all in heaven , saying, To fly one pleasure . If it is up there , anything and afraid , the only land.
The fate averted his incomplete forty years of life. He ordered them generously , in full, in a different way and could not.Sergei Utochkin died December 31 at the new, 1916 , old style , from a hemorrhage in the lungs. He was buried at St. Nicholas cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
In Odessa Utochkina not forgotten.As may be called at different times of the city 's oldest cinema - Red flyer, 'Red Railroad ', Odessa colloquially called him stubborn Utochkina cinema . Eventually, he regained and the popular, and the first official name.
Monument to Sergei Utochkin set in Odessa, near the cinema Gorsadu refined by the movie.
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