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      🏛 Matsievich Square: Monument to the First Aviators

      Аэродромная ул., сквер Мациевича

      A memorial stone at the spot where the pilot Lev Matsievich died (1910) and busts of aviation pioneers — the Komendantsky Airfield was here.

      Matsievich Square: Monument to the First Aviators
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      • Captain Lev Matsievich crashed on 24 September (7 October) 1910 — the first victim of an air crash in the Russian Empire.
      • It happened at the "All-Russian Aeronautics Festival", Russia's first air show; three days earlier Matsievich had taken Stolypin up for a flight.
      • Matsievich's death pushed Gleb Kotelnikov to invent the backpack parachute.
      • The memorial at the crash site was designed by the architect Ivan Fomin; the square has borne the pilot's name since 1982.
      • Matsievich's last flight was described by Alexander Blok in the poem "The Aviator".

      Part of these routes

      • Chyornaya Rechka, the first aviators and Kolomyagi
      • A Wooden Church, the First Aviators and the Duel Site

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