Vladimir Gulyaev is a Soviet actor, especially familiar to the viewer in the role of police lieutenant Volodya from his favorite comedy “The Diamond Arm”. In fact, on the account of the artist, whose track record is measured not only by movie roles, more than forty films.
Vladimir Leonidovich is a representative of the young generation of the 40s who came to the defense of the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War. This hero is a man who mercilessly beat the enemy from heavenly heights, clearing the blue sky and his native land from his invasion.
Military biography of Vladimir Gulyaev
A native of Sverdlovsk, Vladimir was born on October 30, 1924. In the mid-30s, his family moved to the city of Izhevsk. Here, the future actor studied at school number 22 named. A.S. Pushkin, studied at the flying club. In 1942, at the age of 19, Volodya Gulyaev was drafted into the army. Then he became a cadet at an aviation school in Molotov (now Perm). After graduating with honors, the youngest of the graduates received the rank of junior lieutenant. First, he served in the 639th regiment of the 211st assault aviation division, based near the city of Velizh (not far from Smolensk). Then the regiment was transferred to the emerging 335th assault division.
Vladimir made his first sorties by storming railway stations in the direction of Vitebsk – Polotsk. During the Bagration operation, his repeated attacks on the Oboli attack were especially brave. In a group of six aircraft, despite four anti-aircraft batteries and two on the approach, creating a whole sea of fire, Gulyaev boldly stormed the enemy, dropping bombs into his echelons. Two days after his attack, fires raged at the station and ammunition was torn. The act of a brave pilot was described in the newspaper Sovetskiy Sokol, a clipping from which Vladimir Leonidovich always carried with him and was very proud of it.
A hero among us
On his Ile-2 Vladimir Gulyaev carried out 60 sorties, for which he was awarded serious awards. On average, according to statistics, the pilot of the Il aircraft manages to make up to 11 sorties before the moment of downing; Gulyaev was an exception, taking off for more than a year (1943-1944).
He was shot down in the Rezekne area during the assault on artillery positions; the pilot managed to land the plane that had lost control on the forest, while he himself was severely injured. He was able to return to the regiment only after a three-month stay in the hospital with the conclusion of doctors who made it possible to count on at least flights in light-engine aircraft. It was Vladimir who had to fly these “corn dies”, solving local issues. Patience to his soul, yearning for his own cabin "Ilyuha", was enough for no more than a month; Vladimir began to write reports one by one, got a second medical commission, and in March 1945 took to the air on his own Ile-2. The death near took place on March 26, 1945, when, during the next assault on enemy positions, an anti-aircraft shell hit the plane. Vladimir Gulyaev managed to safely land the aircraft at his home airfield and after that he made two or three sorties a day.
This exciting Victory Day!
The final point in the military career was the next task: to drop an ultimatum over her commandant Otto Lyash over the fortified city of Koenigsberg. Unable to withstand the power and strength of the attackers, the cradle of Prussian militarism surrendered on April 9, lasting three days. On this day, Gulyaev Vladimir was presented to the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.
On June 24, 1945, Gulyaev, as part of the pilots of the 3rd Air Army, marched along Red Square among hundreds of compatriot winners. It was his participation in the Victory Parade for him, a 20-year-old youth, that became the most important event in his life.
Under a peaceful sky
Peaceful post-war life was unusual for Vladimir, who could not imagine himself without sky, altitude and speed. But in the military career of a young man, more than once wounded and shell-shocked, a fat point was put: a new stage in his life began - a film actor.
Vladimir Gulyaev, whose personal life was interested in more than one female heart, graduated from VGIK in 1951, where he studied on the course of Sergei Yutkevich and Mikhail Rum. Since that time, he began acting in films. The actor never played the main roles: the viewer knows him from the supporting characters. But what roles they were! Charismatic, smiling, charming, somewhat reckless and very kind. Even the short appearance of the artist in the frame gave the film a touch of sincerity and sincerity. This is Volodya, a policeman in the “Diamond Hand”, the strict captain - “Come to me, Mukhtar!”, Yura Zhurchenko - “Spring on Zarechnaya Street”, Fedor Subbotin in “Alien Relatives”.
Many phrases uttered by him in the movies became winged: “What’s up with your head?”, “Greetings from Michal Ivanitch!”, “Semyon Semenych!”
"In the air of Ila"
Also, actor Vladimir Gulyaev was engaged in dubbing films, including “In a certain kingdom, ” “How a soldier fell behind the army, ” “Ladies invite gentlemen, ” and others.
In 1985, Vladimir Gulyaev published the book “In the Air of Ily”. This is a documentary story in which the pilot talks about the military exploits of his friends, who bravely smashed the enemy in the Baltic states, Belarus, East Prussia. We are talking about the Heroes of the Soviet Union Pyotr Arefyev, Alexander Mironov, Fedor Sadchikov, Nikolai Platonov, George Inasaridze, Vladimir Sukhachev, Ivan Pavlov and many others who boldly defended their homeland. The story is written by the author on behalf of one of the heroes - junior lieutenant Ladigin Leonid.
What is he: front-line actor?
Vladimir Gulyaev was a very simple person in communication: he willingly went to meetings with spectators even in remote corners of the country, performed in ordinary clubs and houses of culture. A tall man, prominent, taut thanks to a military bearing, the cheerful actor always smiled, answered questions from the audience, mixing it with light jokes and funny jokes. From meetings, he, a famous artist with enormous charm and positive energy, left his closest friend, parting with which was incredibly difficult.
