Through the seas and oceans. The lively and combat path of Major General Maxim Nikolayevich Chibisov

The book presents the detailed biography of M. N. Chibisov (1906-1989)-an outstanding Soviet aviator, military leader, commander of a special group on the distillation of Lend-Lid-Lids seaplanes of the Catalin type to the USSR. Maxim Nikolaevich - researcher of the Arctic, head of the Polar Aviation Department (1947-1951), whose activities were largely hidden under the veil of secrecy, and therefore has not yet received the proper display in publications.
The documentary basis of the book was his personal diaries, preserved in the family, as well as materials that were in closed archives and only recently declassified.
saturated with bright events and extraordinary situations, the life of Major General M.N. Chibisov is of interest to a wide reader audience, primarily for those who are interested in military history, as well as the history of our country as a whole.
The authors express gratitude to everyone who helped in the work on the book: Ahobadze Viktor Viktorovich and Victoria Leonidovna, Golovkov Alexander Sergeyevich, Pochtareva Andrei Nikolayevich, Rubin Andrei Borisovich, Rubin Maxim Andreevich and Ksenia Andreevna, Kirill Konstantinovich, Filimonova Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna and Lyubov Kirillovna Filimonova-Rubina Elena Yuryevna.
The authors express special gratitude: Gregory Gagarin, American colleague and friend M. N. Chibisov, for great help in checking the facts related to the Lend-Lease project "Zebra", Mishina Nikita Anatolyevich for the ideological and financial support of this publication, Roshchupkin Vladimir Timofeevich for the scientific and literary edition of the manuscript, as well as Bolosov Andrei Nikolaevich for the painstaking work of finding new historical information, photographs and compiling a list of participants in the special group M.N. Chibisov on the distillation of seaplanes from the USA to the USSR in 1944-1945.
2nd edition, corrected and supplemented