Famous People from Lyubertsy

Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (March 9, 1934 - March 27, 1968) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the first person to travel into space.

Yuri Gagarin studied at the Lyubertsy Vocational School from 1949 to 1951.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin made the first manned space flight in history, which was a significant achievement for the country and had a profound impact on the development of space exploration. The flight took place on April 12, 1961, aboard the Vostok spacecraft.

Gagarin's flight gave a new impetus to space exploration in the world and the scientific and technological space race between the USSR and the USA in the 1960s and 1980s.

The first human flight became the foundation of manned space exploration and set high standards for the quality, reliability, and safety of space technology and operations.

Gagarin's flight marked the beginning of a series of achievements, including the launch of lunar rovers, interplanetary stations, and the first female cosmonauts.

Vladimir Volkov

Vladimir Mikhailovich Volkov is the Head of the City District of Lyubertsy in the Moscow Region.

He was born on December 26, 1975.

Political career:

From 2009 to 2013, he was a member of the Lyubertsy City Council and the Chairman of the Committee on Legislation.
From September 2013 to November 2016, he was the Head of the Kraskovo Urban Settlement in the Lyubertsy District of the Moscow Region.
Since November 2016, he has been the Head of Pereslavl-Zalessky.
Since December 2018, he has been the Mayor of Yaroslavl.
From May to October 2022, he served as the First Deputy Head of the Lyubertsy Urban District.
On October 10, 2022, he was elected as the Head of the Lyubertsy Urban District of the Moscow Region at a meeting of the Lyubertsy II Council of Deputies.

Olga Romanova

Olga Evgenievna Romanova is a Russian journalist, TV and radio host, human rights activist, public figure, and teacher.

She was born on March 28, 1966 in Lybertsy.

Some of Romanova's achievements include:

In 2004, she won the TEFI Award for Best Information Program Host.
In mid-December 2011, she participated in organizing protests against the falsification of the results of the sixth convocation of the State Duma.
In January 2012, together with other journalists and cultural figures, she established the League of Voters.
In March 2013, she participated in a series of solo pickets in support of the release of Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.
She founded the Rus Sitting movement, which focused on the rights of prisoners in Russia.

Nikolai Rastorguev

Nikolai Vyacheslavovich Rastorguev is a Russian singer, the leader of the band Lyube, and a People's Artist of Russia. He was born on February 21, 1957, in the village of Bykovo, Ramensky District, Moscow Region.

Nikolai Rastorguev, as a musician, singer, guitarist, and actor, has contributed to the development of Russian military-patriotic music, for which he received the Russian Ministry of Defense Prize in the field of culture and art (2023).

Nikolai Rastorguev performed on the stage of the Lyubertsy House of Culture, as his creative life began in Lyubertsy.

Rastorguev has also participated in political events, such as serving as a trustee for Vladimir Putin in the 2012 and 2024 elections and being a member of the Putin Team movement.

In addition, in 2024, the Nikolai Rastorguev Foundation, together with the Pride radio station, established and held the Music of the Proud patriotic song festival.

Anatoliy Pristavkin

Anatoly Ignatievich Pristavkin is a Soviet and Russian writer and public figure.

Years of life: October 17, 1931 July 11, 2008. He was born in Lybertsy.

Some of the writer's actions and achievements:

In 1959, he made his debut as a novelist, publishing a series of short stories "Difficult Childhood" in the magazine "Yunost".
In 1961, he was admitted to the Writers' Union of the USSR.
In 1965, he published the lyrical novella about Russian nature, "Seliger Seligerovich."
In 1967, he wrote the novel "Golubka" about the construction of hydroelectric power plants in Siberia.
In 1977, he published the novella "Soldier and a Boy" about the moral development of an orphaned child from an orphanage.
In 1987, he published the novella "The Golden Cloud Slept Over," which gained widespread recognition and addressed the issues of orphaned children and the deportation of the Chechen people in 1944.
Since 1981, he has been teaching at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, serving as an associate professor in the Department of Literary Craftsmanship and leading a prose seminar.
From 2001 to 2008, he served as an advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on matters of pardon.

Nikolai Vlasov

Nikolai Ivanovich Vlasov (November 11, 1916, Petrograd, Russian Empire — January 26, 1945, Mauthausen, Austria) was a Soviet military pilot, a lieutenant colonel, and a Hero of the Soviet Union (November 23, 1942).

Military career

Nikolai Ivanovich Vlasov, a future Hero of the Soviet Union, began his combat activities at the Lyubertsy airfield during the Great Patriotic War.

Participated in combat operations from the very first days, was the commander of a fighter squadron on the Western Front.

Performed combat missions: accompanied bombers, stormed enemy troops positions, participated in repelling massive enemy attacks on Soviet defense facilities.

Personally shot down 10 enemy aircraft, one of them - as a result of an air ram.

On November 23, 1942, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for his exemplary performance of combat missions and bravery.

Mikhail Mitrofanov

Mikhail Nikolaevich Mitrofanov (1928–1965) was a driver at the Glavtransproekt motor depot of the USSR Ministry of Transport Construction.

On December 16, 1965, Mitrofanov was returning home to Ukhtomka in his truck from a geological exploration expedition. On the "humpbacked" bridge over the railway, he noticed a ZIL-158 bus without a driver moving towards a cliff.

Mitrofanov overtook the bus and blocked its path to the cliff with his truck. The bus slowed down, but did not stop. Mikhail then grabbed a boulder and tried to place it under the wheel of the speeding vehicle.

Mikhail managed to stop the heavy bus and save the passengers, but only at the cost of his own life. He was killed by the bus.

Mikhail Mitrofanov was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin. A street in Lyubertsy is named after him, and a bust monument has been erected near the Natashinsky Ponds.

Nikolai Kamov

Nikolai Ilyich Kamov (September 1, 1902, Irkutsk — November 24, 1973, Moscow) was a Soviet aircraft designer and creator of the Ka helicopter. He was a Doctor of Technical Sciences (1962).

Some achievements:

Together with N. K. Skrzhinsky, he created the first two-seater autogyro in the USSR, the KASK-1 (Krasny Inzhener, 1929), and its modification with a more powerful engine, the KASK-2 (1930).
Under Kamov's leadership, the Ka-8 (1948), Ka-10 (1953), Ka-15 (1956), Ka-18 (1960), Ka-25 (1968), Ka-26 (1967), Ka-22 (1964), Sever-2 airboat, and Ka-30 glider were developed.
The establishment of the enterprise turned Lyubertsy into one of the world's leading helicopter manufacturing centers, where the famous Ka series of helicopters were developed and tested.

Awards and titles:

Hero of Socialist Labor (1972);
Two Orders of Lenin (1962, 1972);
Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1957, 1971), medals;
State Prize of the USSR (1972).

Dmitry Kalarash

Dmitry Leontievich Kalarash (December 12, 1911, Kiev — October 29, 1942, Lazarevskoye, Krasnodar Territory) was a navigator in the 236th Fighter Aviation Division (5th Air Army, Transcaucasian Front), a Hero of the Soviet Union, and a lieutenant colonel.

Some of Dmitry Kalarash's achievements:

In 1932, fighter pilot Dmitry Kalarash was assigned to an aviation unit in the Moscow Military District, including an airfield in Lyubertsy.
Participation in air parades. Kalarash was a test pilot at the Air Force Research Institute and was one of the first to master the MIG-3 high-speed fighter-interceptor, for which he received the Order of the Badge of Honor.
Rescuing General Ivan Klimov. In the summer of 1942, Calarasi landed his fighter plane on enemy territory to rescue the downed division commander, Colonel Klimov, and took him away in his own plane.
Mentoring young pilots. Calarasi shared his experience with them, teaching them how to choose battle tactics, identify enemy weaknesses, and assess their own strengths.
He completed over two hundred combat missions. During his participation in the Great Patriotic War, Kalarash made more than two hundred combat sorties and personally destroyed fourteen (according to other sources, eleven) aircraft, and another six in a group.
Posthumous awarding of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

Nikolai Shevlyakov

Nikolai Stepanovich Shevlyakov (May 2, 1913, Kozlovka, Tambov province — December 25, 1941, village Novo-Kobelevo, Kalinin region) — commander of an infantry platoon of the 1174th Infantry Regiment of the 348th Infantry Division, 30th Army, Kalinin Front, second lieutenant. Shevlyakov Street in Lyubertsy is named after Nikolai Stepanovich Shevlyakov.

Some of Shevlyakov's achievements and feats:

In one of the first battles, he was wounded, but soon returned to the battlefield.
Nikolai Shevlyakov's platoon was considered the best not only in the company but also in the battalion.
When Shevlyakov was wounded a second time, he did not leave the battlefield. After quickly bandaging his wound, he led his soldiers in an attack, relentlessly pursuing the retreating enemy.
During the attack on an enemy stronghold near the village of Novokobelevo in the Staritsky District of the Kalinin Region on December 25, 1941, he closed the embrasure of an enemy bunker with his body at a critical moment in the battle.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 5, 1942, Shevlyakov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) for "exemplary performance of combat missions of the command at the front of the struggle against the German invaders and his bravery and heroism."