Where the missile landed, shot down an American spy Powers – Russian newspaper

In the village Chudova Bogdanovich district opened a memorial sign in honor of the missile, shot down a US spy plane over the territory of the Sverdlovsk region. Recall, it was May 1, 1960 air defense forces shot down near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) US spy plane.

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Operation Powers of detention was one of the most exciting episodes of “Cold War”. On this day, 55 years ago, Francis Powers, thirty American pilot, lifted into the air from the runway of Peshawar airport in Pakistan U-2 plane and sent it to the Soviet border. His assignment was to photograph military bases in the Urals, including closed Chelyabinsk-40, where there was a chemical plant “Mayak”. Almost 5 out of 6 thousand kilometers route goes over Soviet territory, flying all the time held in the stratosphere at a height of not less than 20 thousand meters.

At a distance of about 50 kilometers south-east of Sverdlovsk Powers changed course, turning 90 degrees. His next target was the Plesetsk cosmodrome. However, the spy plane was shot down by a Soviet missile, and Powers, jumped out with a parachute, was arrested on landing. Subsequently, the Soviet court sentenced the pilot to 10 years in prison for espionage. However, later exchanged for American Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

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The wreckage of rockets fired by Soviet rocket troops in a plane piloted by Powers, fell in the village center Chudova. That is why local enthusiasts decided to establish a monument. The press service of the Information Policy Department of the Sverdlovsk region specify that the authorship of the idea belongs to the former chief engineer of Eastern Electric Networks, Victor Ovchinnikov. He is interested in history, gathered some 70 collections, illustrating the business activities, the traditional way of household, material and spiritual culture of the Russian rural population of the Ural region. By the way, in June this year in the Chudov Victor Ovchinnikov is planning to open a museum complex, which includes a museum and a museum of Ural rocket peasant life.

In the Sverdlovsk District house officers a long time there was a small exhibition devoted to knock down Powers: the wreckage of the aircraft skin, Headset on which the order was given of the defeat, mock missile brought down the intruder. It should be noted that neither the hut in the village, where he fell stricken U-2, either in the village Kosulino, where he landed a pilot, no signs reminiscent of the event there.

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