In March pupils of "School of Greco-Roman wrestling of the deserved trainer of the USSR V. M. Kuznetsova" visited a museum of the legendary Novosibirsk pilot, three times Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin.

Excursion was devoted to the 100 anniversary since the birth of our great fellow countryman.

 The museum works in professional school No. 2 (PU-2) where Pokryshkin once studied, there are presented not only the exhibits relating to wartime, but also samples of modern military equipment and arms.

 Excursion caused a great interest in children, they shared the impressions in short essays. Here quotes from works of young wrestlers:

Nikita Poselov, 7 years, trainer V. V. Rodenko.

"… Alexander Pokryshkin was the best pilot and fascists were afraid of it. In a museum there were its personal belongings: medals, awards, uniform, letters. Most of all I liked the Aerokobra plane. I surely will be same courageous and persistent, as Alexander Pokryshkin."

Aybat Moldobayev, 12 years, trainer N. G. Gudochkin.

"… When it for the first time took off for fight, saw the plane, nobody knew whose is the plane. Pokryshkin brought down it and saw a red star on a plane wing, it appeared that it brought down the. Alexander very much worried that brought down the and thought that the pilot was lost, but it appeared that the pilot jumped out of the plane and miracle remained is live. So war for A.I.Pokryshkina began."

Kolya Abzayev, 9 years, trainer N. G. Gudochkin.

"… I most of all liked the War Echo hall, there is a platform where the battlefield and still chamber imitation for the wounded is imitated. I saw a catapult chair, I saw models of planes and the real plane on which marshal Pokryshkin flied."

Mischa Kuperman, 7 years, trainer S.I.Volkov

"…  On March 5, 2013 I, together with children from section on Greco-Roman wrestling, went to Pokryshkin's museum.

Stanislav Klyukh, 12 years, trainer V. V. Rodenko

"… It was very interesting to listen to a sound fragment of air fight, to see military devices. It brought down 116 enemy planes. Enemies knew and were afraid of it.

Pokryshkin – pride of our aircraft. The legendary person, three times the Hero of the Soviet Union – glory and pride of Novosibirsk and all Russia."

Evgeny Gorbachev, 12 years, trainer V. V. Rodenko

"… He was the courageous boy, in 13 years jumped with a parachute. He achieved the – graduated from flight school and began to fly."

Pavel Shestakov, 14 years, trainer V. V. Rodenko

"… In Pokryshkin's youth inspired affairs of the Russian pioneer of aircraft of Valery Tchkalov. He left the homeland to try the luck at flight school, but at first it was necessary to be learned on the mechanic. Pokryshkin didn't leave attempts to get a flight education and thanks to the persistence finished flight courses and achieved transfer to flight work."

Imran Nasyrov, 10 years, trainer V. V. Rodenko

"… In 12 years Pokryshkin for the first time saw and touched the plane and then he told: "I will be a pilot! ", secretly, when mother wasn't at home, it took a grandmother's sundress, climbed on a shed and jumped from a roof, using a sundress, as a parachute."

Daniel Kovalchuk, 11 years, trainer V. V. Rodenko

"… In the majority of departures he assumed the most difficult task – to bring down the leader. The glory about pilot Pokryshkin who has brought down a set of enemy planes, about its new equipment of conducting air fight scattered far beyond a regiment.

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