Talking about abilities
Unit 5
Talking about abilities
Alexey Maresyev
(1916-2001)
Alexey Maresyev was a
Soviet fighter ace during
World War II.
His airplane was
shot down over German-occupied
territory in Russia in April 1942.
He was badly wounded and
couldn’t walk, but managed to
returned to Soviet-controlled
territory on his own. It took him
18 days of creeping through forests to reach safety.
His story served as a basis for the novel by Boris Polevoy The Story of a Real Man and a subsequent film (1948) directed by Aleksandr Stolper and a subsequent film (1948) directed by Aleksandr Stolper where his name was changed to Meresyev. The novel also inspired Sergei Prokofiev's last opera The Story of Real Man. In 2005 a documentary called Alexey Maresyev. The Fate of a Real Man was produced by Channel Russia.
The asteroid 2173 Maresjev is named in his honor.
Both of his legs were amputated below the knee, but he wanted to return to his fighter pilot career.
For a whole year he exercised hard
to walk on prosthetic legs and was
able to return to combat in June
1943.
In total, he completed
86 combat flights and
shot down 11 German
warplanes.
When interviewed
Maresyev always
stressed there was nothing extraodinary in what he did.
“I’m a man, not a hero”, he said. He was a very modest man.
A family portrait with his wife Galina and his son Victor, 1946
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