THE NUMBER OF TRAINED AVIATION PERSONNEL IN MILITARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE AIR FORCE IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
The article is devoted to the activities of military aviation schools and Air Force colleges in the USSR where the flight and technical personnel training during the Great Patriotic War was carried out. The author presents issues relating to the number of Air Force military educational institutions and the number of trained aviation professionals there. Based on the analysis of archival documents the author indicates that the difficulties of the initial period of the war affected the number of aviation schools and colleges graduates, their number was decreased significantly. The situation was improved only after a radical turning in the war.