FROM THE FAMILY ARCHIVES:
DRAWINGS BY N.F. KUDRYAVTSEV (1894-1989)
I. Landscapes & other sketches from the World war I
(1915-1917)
II. Making grotesque of the epoch:
aviation & customs during the Civil war in Russia
(1919-1921)
KUDRYAVTSEV Nikolai Feodorovich, born 1894 in St.-Petersburg.
1912 - St.-Petersburg politechnical institute,
1915 - St.-Vladimir millitary college in Helsingforce (Helsinki),
1916-17 - Rigas front, stuffs-captain (major),
1918-20 - pilot-observer in the 1st Socialist airounit in the Ural and Ukraine fronts of the Civil War,
1921 - Chief of the Flight school in Klin,
1927-1940 - professor in the Jukovskiy Air Academy in Moscow,
1940-1956 - professor in the Command Air Forces (Gagarin) Academy in Monino. Scolar in aironavigation, airophotography, etc.
Inventor of airotrainer class and other devices. His 27 works and manuals are now in the Monino Air Forces Museum.
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